Always loved the line, “I feel stupid and contageous.”
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Taylor and Kurt were shopping at the same store it looks like.
Nothing like a good side by side comparison to show you that the 90s are well and truly back en vogue ^^
Love the jacket Taylor ^^ I’d certainly wear that, too!
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How the apathy was contextualized in this time in the reality of deeply Christian nationalist 80s and it’s complete disconnect with the “happy” glam and retrowave aesthetic that had been co-opted to reinforce misogyny, racism, homophobia and offer only the reprieve of excess consumption as panacea is the thing I feel is missing from this otherwise excellent analysis. The inverted pep rally was an artistic reflection of how the band and many contemporaries felt about the culture of the day (this was wildly subversive art at the time.) Within just that year the same social forces would co-opt this aesthetic to be the new “cool” & apathetic “vibe”. So we went from be happy, shroud hate in bright colors, don’t care, to be angry, don’t care, wear your ugliness on your sleeve. The net effect missing the entire point of this new absurdist influenced movement. They were so ahead of everyone on this the NEXT song on this album literally predicted this behavior about the audience missing the message entirely.
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If you want to analyze songs as a therapist, there are several you should listen to. “Daddy” by Korn. “Fear” by blue october. “Hi Ren” by Ren. So many more
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I love how the janitor is so important in the video
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I wish I heard this explanation about apathy back in 95 when I was in high school😢, but I understand now, moving forward, thank you😊
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You have to watch From can to can’t by Corey Taylor I promise you will enjoy it please watch!!!
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@HeartSupport - Talk About Your Mental Health time for the harder stuff, do you want to try it?
GUTALAX - DIARRHERO (Special lyrics)
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face (Oldschool)
DYING FETUS - Unbridled Fury
ABORTED - Infinite Terror
SHINING - Allt För Döden
Torsof.ck- Raped by Elephants
GORGOROTH - Black Mass Krakow (live Full show)
Endstille - Depressive/Abstract/Banished/Despised
if someone still knows bands please write →
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@heartsupport As I appreciate your reactions so much, I would also like to make a suggestion. The band is Heaven’s Guardian from Brazil. The style is Symphonic Metal.
The song is Artificial Times:
The song is part of the first studio album “Chronos” recorded by a metal band and a professional orchestra/choir. Hope you like them. Thx!
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@heartsupport Hi girl! As I appreciate your reactions so much, I would also like to make a suggestion. The band is Heaven’s Guardian from Brazil. The style is Symphonic Metal.
The song is Artificial Times:
The song is part of the first studio album “Chronos” recorded by a metal band and a professional orchestra/choir. Hope you like them. Thx!
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The song that literally changed lives, including mine, would do anything to hear this for the first time again!
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New subscriber I like how you break down your reaction 
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I love your breakdowns of songs. A lot of the 90s grunge and metal hits home for me. One song that got me through a lot was Nutshell by Alice in Chains. Would love to hear your take on that song.
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Please next Analyzes “Lithium” 
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Holy shit first time I saw this i was 12 and the janitor dancing even made weird al’s cover.
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Okay
So…
‘smells like teen spirit’ comes from a house party where Kurt got with a girl and she wrote ‘kurt Cobain smells like teen spirit’ on the mirror with lipstick.
The majority of the song is just about teenage dating
Verse 1
Load up on guns, bring your friends, it’s fun to lose and to pretend.
In his journals he talks a lot his hatred of the jocks at school who would go into the woods shooting beer cans. The hyper competitive macho attitude to impress the girls (it’s fun to lose and to pretend you didn’t. Typical macho nonsense. That was just a practice shot! No you put me off! Etc)
She’s overboard…and self assured… oh no I know a dirty word. (sex)
Hello hello hello…how low. The awkwardness of going up to a girl to say hello and how pathetic it is that you can’t but just repeated imagine how you would
Chorus
With the lights out ‘its’ less dangerous (sex). Eg ‘doing it’
Here we are now … entertain us (we’re in bed. Time to perform and impress!)
I feel stupid (first time no one ever knows what to do)
And contagious (reoccurring sti complex of Kurt’s stemming from a time when he was like 13 and an encounter with a girl who was generally labelled as ‘retarded’ by the rest of the school, after which he became really paranoid that he had caught something off her because she was ‘retarded’. Again… All in his journals. When the rumour came out that he had gotten with her he denied it vehemently. Which is the ‘a denial! A denial! A denial!’ at the end)
A mulato (old word for mixed race baby. Derogative) an albino (basically… he feels like a freak. Again kinda common thought patterns as teens discover sexuality and are more on the sexually paranoid side)
A mosquito - parasite, like feels bad for wanting sex. Also, blood sucker. Like a vampire which are very sexual. But in a gross parasitic way
My libido! - I mean… Yeh… All about his awakening sexuality and confusion around that. Like cursing his libido.
Oh and the old janitor is supposed to be an old Kurt. He always thought that’s what he’d end up as. The whole music video is like an old washed Kurt imagining what could’ve been
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Would love to see your reaction to, hush by hell yeah. Pretty please👃
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This was literally an Anthem for a generation of us who was sick of the 80’s glam and hair bands the “Greed is good” Era of the Yuppie and being given new and improved doses of capitalism. An Era where the Rich and Famous was on every channel we were shown the filthy rich and shoved in our faces was “You are not as good as them cause you are not Rich”. Kurt was that voice for this generation he just neve wanted to be it was too big for him. Not a day goes by I do not miss Kurt and Nirvana.
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First song i learned on guitar and played in the grade 8 talent show
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You should definitly try: You know you‘re right (Nirvana).
In my opinion their best song.
Also I‘m just new to your channel, but I really like your videos 
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