How Nirvana wrote feminist songs from a male perspective
How Nirvana wrote feminist songs from a male perspective
Nirvana never had the best track record when writing decipherable lyrics, but when it came to women's rights, Kurt Cobain never minced any of his words.
โฆ leave it to Nirvana to come in and actually make a decent stance for feminist issues.
Granted, itโs hard to talk about Nirvanaโs approach to this topic on principle. Since all of these are issues that affect the opposite sex, itโs hard to justify Cobainโs stance at times without him coming off as the white knight in shining armour doing his best attempt to save the dignity of an entire gender.
But looking through how Nirvana tackles feminism, itโs not about being the saviour for women. Itโs about putting men in the shoes of the opposite sex and seeing what happens when they are put into some of the most deplorable scenarios anyone would have to go through. Just look no further than their most famous feminist tune, โPollyโ.
While this is the closest thing to a โballadโ Nirvana made on their breakthrough album Nevermind, it feels like a ballad in the same way that those extremely dark Western country songs used to be. Writing from the point of view of a sexual predator who tied up Polly in his van, thereโs already an eerie energy coming off the song before we even get to the chorus.
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If you go back and watch the intimate interviews with Cobain you can see how genuine he is when it comes to social justice and women's issues.
Wear that sjw tag proudly just like Kurt did.
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It's like the Wiggles cover Nirvana. Brilliant!
Always interesting none of these articles mention โFrances the farmerโ? Given its blatant lyrics and even the song title calling attention to its themes just seems like a gimme.
It's because Kurt was at least somewhat transfem.
So to you, the only way for a man to feel empathy for women, is if they are "somewhat transfem"...
You need to meet better men.
There's been discussion about if Cobain was trans. This poster didn't just make it up
I have heard this take several times but never seen any evidence for it
You're basing that off a common style at the time. Least you think many rock and grunge artists were coincidentally all that, with Kurt actually being less involved by comparison.
Don't make shit up and tell people it's so, simply because you wish it were so. That's Trumpistic.
Cool, if true.
Source(s)?
Posted elsewhere in this thread but https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-do-some-people-think-kurt-cobain-was-trans-the-viral-debate-explained is probably a fine starting point.
Definitely a vibes thing and not a sourced thing but personally I kinda see it too
Hard agree I feel like the coding was definitely there