"Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back." This song was sooo directed to Courtney. I love the sarcasm he sang with.

@Heisenberg882

4 жыл бұрын

he said it was about children with cancer.

@michaelb2789

3 жыл бұрын

If anything, it would have been directed to his mom. He didn't have a great relationship with his parents. But other dude is right. He said it was about kids with cancer, though im sure he threw in some personal second meanings.

@OGGOAT23

3 жыл бұрын

@@Heisenberg882 Courtney cancer zodiac

This song is about his relationship with his wife, Courtney Love. They had a super toxic relationship. Their daughter was born around this time hence all the references to pregnancy and birth. The "I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black" part is in reference to Courtney who's zodiac sign is Cancer. Kurt was a Pisces who are known to be emotional, romantic, squishy - The "She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak" line I always felt illustrated how he knew they were bad for each other but she'd give him "that look" and he just couldn't say no. "Locked inside your heart shaped box" - trapped in an unhealthy, codependent trauma bonded, addiction fueled, messy, passionate relationship.

@brandonb.5304

4 жыл бұрын

Good synopsis. Of course, Courtney claims the song is about her vagina and how Kurt couldn't resist it, but we all know she's a narcissist and can't be relied upon on to be objective.

@wendyraymond1751

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing insight thanku so much ..have a great day love an god bless x

@markabboud8564

4 жыл бұрын

Brandon B. Exactly

@texasgold007

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't he say that the vast majority of his lyrics were pulled from his poetry? I don't read anything into his lyrics but they are amazing!

@norightturn7047

3 жыл бұрын

BS. You're just making the conclusions you want. Show me a single interview where Kurt says this sh*t.

Don't really expect guitar solos from Nirvana. They did things differently.

@krisfrederick5001

4 жыл бұрын

Kurt wrote tons of guitar solos...

@andrewcastillo9558

4 жыл бұрын

@@krisfrederick5001 lol. Wrote, don't mean good.

@kazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

4 жыл бұрын

to be fair they did have solos, some of them kinda short and repetitive yet still work

@Chyno320

4 жыл бұрын

My man here is rating solos from Slash, Morello, etc. It's just a way to let him know that he shouldn't be expecting Kurt to shred his guitar in the same way as them.

@elijahcruzada472

4 жыл бұрын

His solos weren’t meant to be flashy, they were meant to compliment the songs and fit in with them.

Fun fact: Kurt and Courtney got into an argument over how perfect he had to look in this video...so he put a cigarette out on his forehead "How's that?"

Kurt Cobain was a game-changing musician (and pretty easy on the eyes) but he sure could design a set that a serial killer would love. The fetuses, the organ lady, the weird Klan outfit on the kid, I don't know. I don't analyze their videos or lyrics, I just enjoy the music. I always found Nirvana videos kind of depressing and a bit too visceral for my taste.

This song is largely about Kurt's toxic relationship with his wife, Courtney Love. The references to Cancer are references to Courtney, who's zodiac sign is Cancer, and to Pisces, which is Kurt's. Even though Courtney was bad for him, Kurt, being a Pisces, kept going back. This was also around the time they had their daughter, which is why there are so many references to fetuses and birth. Their daughter was another reason why Kurt stuck around. Like he was connected to her with an umbilical cord, Courtney could just pull him back. If you know anything about Courtney Love, you know how egomaniacal she is. She claims the song is about how great her vagina is and how Kurt couldn't resist it. That's what she claims. Though, I wouldn't believe anything she said at face value.

@shadyzlexie8455

4 жыл бұрын

So on point!!

@mrs.martin3158

4 жыл бұрын

In spite of her trainwreck of a mother, he so loved his baby girl, though. He would even hold her in his arms during interviews. I thought that was so precious.

@OGGOAT23

3 жыл бұрын

Kurt was a mess too.. don't get it twisted..

@brandonb.5304

3 жыл бұрын

@@OGGOAT23 Yeah, he was a drug addict...like Courtney. But even when Kurt tried to get clean, Courtney would enable his substance abuse again. There's a reason why none of the other members of Nirvana could stand Courtney Love. And why Frances Bean didn't talk to her mother for almost a decade.

min 7:53 "they got babies from trees.." about 700 years ago an Italian poet by the name of Dante wrote a book called The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest works in western literature. In it, the hero, Dante, is taken down to visit the various rungs of hell, where he witnesses unspeakable horrors. One of these is "The Tree of Suicides" or "The Woods of Self-Murderers". Dante describes a tortured forest infested with harpies (lady with wings) that torment the souls trapped in the trees. In the book, the act of suicide is punished by encasing the soul of the offender in a tree, thus denying them passage to heaven and damning them for all eternity. Those damned for suicide will not re-inhabit their bodies on Judgement Day, but instead witness their regenerated bodies hang from the "Tree of Suicides". The Heart Shaped Box video is in fact Kurt's modern re-telling of the classic tale by Dante.

@tibomoltini2851

2 жыл бұрын

is jesus in the videoclip actually Dante?

@k.t.5405

2 жыл бұрын

@@tibomoltini2851 Hmmm...I think thats Kurt's impression of himself. Just my interpretation (three ravens would be Courtney, Chris and Dave).

@tibomoltini2851

2 жыл бұрын

@@k.t.5405 waow! didnt notice them, so true, thanks KW !

I always get a little sad thinking of the music that could’ve been if things played out differently for kurt and the band...

“Hey, wait, I got a new complaint, forever in debt to your priceless advice”. Kurt was a wee bit sarcastic if nothing else. Didn’t like Courtney Love then nor now. Publicity hound. Great song though!

I love me some Nirvana

Today i'm the same age as Kurt when he passed away. Thank you for the best 1993 single ever, RIP Cobain

one of the best song i've ever heard... the tunes sound really explosive yet sad at the same time

Consider this while pondering the meaning of this song. Those flowers that are covering the ground in almost every scene are poppies. The plant from which heroin is made.

bro this song is about unrequited love, when a girl without realizing it kills you from the inside, makes your soul turn black and you only want to go back in utero to not feel it Cobain was genius

You want to hear a great track with sick guitar solo.....Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

@badfish2282

4 жыл бұрын

This.

@alesstinis1799

4 жыл бұрын

Live version of Yellow Ledbetter/little wing in Hawaï. Awesome video and solo

@Darnaguen

4 жыл бұрын

Mike McCready is definitely not appreciated enough for what he does.

@Mr.Kittychickenwing

4 жыл бұрын

So good.

@qdominika7253

4 жыл бұрын

Noone knows the lyrics to that song tho 😂

More people need to react to BUSH with songs like Machinehead, Everything Zen, Comedown, Warm Machine or even their latest Flowers on A Grave

@shanewhite5932

4 жыл бұрын

Bill James yessssssss Machinehead!!!

@marilynk30

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed! ♥️

@bathory313

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. See what I did there?

@markabboud8564

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, Bush sucks.

@psycoCrazy1

3 жыл бұрын

Little Things

I wouldnt worry to much about understanding this one. Ive listened this so many times and i still dont know for sure

@shadyzlexie8455

4 жыл бұрын

Right!! Lol but the song is amazing!!

This song came about when Kurt was in rehab and he is thanking Courtney for all she did for him. He definately has a dark sense to him. The heart-shaped box is what she sent him while in rehab so he smells her scent on it. He wants to climb back into the womb because he is feeling sick at rehab. Angel hair is a type of noodle while baby's breath is a flower. I lived during this time and still have little clues as to what the hell he was trying to say.

@f4ytedtexan

4 жыл бұрын

"cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath" - he was delighted to be a father even though he didn't want to be. Angel hair could reference to white ish blonde hair and baby's breath is reference to "love". Although angel hair is also a drug known as pcp but we all know his drug of choice was heroin

@markabboud8564

4 жыл бұрын

She sent it to him actually to try to win him over. After meeting each other, he never called her. She sent him a heart-shaped box with gifts inside, and the rest is history.

@alexlarsen6413

Жыл бұрын

@@f4ytedtexan To me that sounds as an expression of how hypersensitive he was, either because of heroin withdrawal or just in general, because the imagery of angel hair and baby's breath, is something as light and gentle as it gets - opposite of anything jagged, hard or sharp...and yet he cuts himself on it.

React to something in the way, one of the most underrated songs by them

@romanreigns8550

3 жыл бұрын

My only Request, In Bloom

What was going on in the video has nothing to do with the song lyrics. Kurt liked to make abstract art and there is some influence in that shown in the video. Don't read too much into Nirvana videos, they never made them about the song lyrics.

Hard to interpret anything from Kurt... Love your reactions and appreciation for Nirvana! Kurt was a true artist beyond music and had a lot to say/express. At this point , he hated how commercially successful they were so he made the music videos as unappealing as possible and they had some funny live tv appearances

The songs not too hard to figure out but the video, good luck with that!😂😂😂 Love it!

Thanku enjoy hearing Nirvana. .lots of amazing insight in the comments. ..always a great reaction thanku love an god bless x

This song is about his wife, Courtney Love. It was written around the time she found out she was pregnant. You'd need to know a little about them to get a lot of the imagery in this video, but it's generally understood that this was basically Kurt explaining that his abusive wife was using their child to control him ("throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back"). A lot of the imagery in the video relates to her, the poppies (heroin), the Klan hood (her racist family), the figure of Christ (she went to a Catholic school). She likes to claim it's about a literal box he gave her but almost all of what she says tends to be bullshit. Most fans understand and accept that he was there against his will, she was a psycho, she was abusive, and he felt he had to be there just because of their child. It's all very tragic really. Things probably would have been very different if he'd left her then instead of trying to make it work and ending up dead.

The organs painted on the body is from the cover of the album called In Utero

My favourite Nirvana' s song....

Nirvana, definitely a bit more avant- grade in the grunge scene. But if you like grunge check out “them bones” by Alice In Chains, “Gun” by soundgarden, or “HoneyBucket” by the Melvins

@MrGoodman174

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody outclasses the TRUE king of grunge which is Kurt Cobain.

"And death to your priceless advice"🔥🔥🔥 heart shaped box refers to vajayjay😂

It’s funny you bring up Axl and Guns n Roses. Kurt and Axl HATED each other a lot. Big feud.

Nirvana rules bro 😎!! The legend kurt cobain!!

I'm pretty sure the "Axl" sway that Kurt did....is really a heroine sway....thing they both had in common

You need to react to In Bloom. More guitar work. Careful trying decipher their lyrics tho. 😵😄

CL, the wildebeest, helped him write this song. And yes, she confirmed it's about her vajayjay.

Ur right "cancer" an organs have cancer. Plus Kurt had/had wierd but genius mind

Should do “you know You’er right” by nirvana too

Notice the 100's of poppy seeds everywhere, Heroin, (he wanted william S Burroughs to be the old man at first) Also a reference to passionate love. Then just general collaging of American fucked up symbolism. You won't find many Nirvana songs that make too musch straight ahead sense, there very vague on purpose. He liked it that way. But I think it's mainly about being locked in the sweet embrace of heroin at it's core. There probably isn't a band that is as different to the process of making rap music than nirvana, but many hip hop stars who love them, I know Dr Dre, Beasties, Post Malone etc.. love them. Gtreat musos love great musos.

Its not the KKK I promise. Kurt cobain literally told crowds if there's racists, homophobes in the audio to leave because it bothered him. He also told them to not buy their music

I've been watching this video since it originally came out. Oddly I never understood why Jesus was wearing a Santa hat until you said , Oh I get it. Christmas! Lol. I feel so dumb. I know he fascinated with babies being born before ever even meeting Courtney. Still don't understand the girl in the hood if anyone out there understands that part?

The thing that gets me about all the reactions to this video is that everybody is watching the standard "official" release and not the director's cut. I don't think the director's cut actually makes anything any clearer, but at least it's more interesting (or confusing) than just looking at Kurt sitting with Dave and Krist as he sings the last verse. In the director's cut, you've got the obese organ-suit woman walking along the trail through the forest. *_(Why?)_* You've got KKK-girl pushing a Victorian-age wheelchair. *_(Why?)_* All of that interspersed with shots of Kurt Cobain lying (asleep? dead?) in a field of poppies. (Okay, I think we can all grasp the significance of *_that!)_* Oh, and for anybody who doesn't already know, Obese Organ-Suit Woman is supposed to be a grotesque parody of the "Visible Woman" with wings on the cover of the album _In Utero,_ from which this song was the first single.

The song and the video are not about the same thing. The video is simply about imagery that somewhat around the periphery reflects the song but not exactly. Kurt at the time the album was written was really into anatomy and that makes its way into the video as well. It's really hard to explain, I lived through that time I'm 55 years old and I remember it's really not a complicated thing but I guess when you look back on it and you didn't live through it it seems rather complex but it's really rather simple, just enjoy the music for the music's sake, enjoy the lyrics for what they are, and enjoy the video for what it is, and they are all separate. And, lest I forget enjoy Kurt for the genius that he was.

cobain didn’t write ‘pizazzy’ guitar solos dude. he’s fuckin kurt cobain, not steve vai.

React to the money will roll right in Nirvana Live Reading 1992 pleaassee

THE AUDIO WILL PLAY THAT GUITAR SOLO A BIT LONGER

Cancers are NOTORIOUS for elevating people enough to eat them (like Hansel and gretel) I would know I am a cancer lol 7/11 and he says he feels like he’s been sucked into a pit hmmm

Listen to Motley Crue kickstart my heart

For me the little girl represents the "innocents" that women tend to portray. The baby in the tree? Notice both the woman and girl are trying to get the baby. Some women take on the maternal role in relationships and it can be damaging...."hey,wait. I got a new complaint"

I know this song but never seen the video. That was weird!

You have to do the song Sappy by Nirvana, and rate that guitar solo. In my opinion you'll love it!! Also in this song I feel like the video distracts from the lyrics true meaning, if you pay attention to the lyrics and the mood of the song alone it'll be easier to figure out what he's talking about.

he pulled an eppstien

Me personally I think I was a salute to all the suffering Kurt saw a man who had hung himself on the way to school and stared at it for an hour The big lady with wings meant it’s what on the inside that counts kinda interpretation The fetus is a rep of life and death the noose is like a umbilical you can climb back into the mother(earth) but that’s me

Can you react to Remember When by Bad Wolves with the video? True story about the singer and how his twin brother almost killed him during a home invasion while high.

Don't feel bad. If you figured out what this song meant the first time listening, you'd be a genius. Firstly, the visuals in the video have nothing to do with the lyrics. They may be symbolic, but honestly Kurt was just a bit weird. Heroin tends to do that....lol. Great musician. Tragic soul. Gone too soon.

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Bro you need to react to Jimi Hendrix

Check out Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam!! Great song and probably the best music video I've ever seen

Like have you seen the crab on Moana? That’s Courtney love lolol

Guns N’ Roses and Nirvana had beef

Just my opinion, but seems to me Kurt concentrated on simplistic, yet catchy pink style music. A flashy guitar solo with shreds and bells or whistles or whatever would've detracted from a melody that gets stuck in your head, like a distraction. As for the meaning.....it's your puzzle. :)

@joelrook5563

4 жыл бұрын

Punk style, not pink. Lol

Lolo Feb 14th my guy Is Valintines Day... U need some SLIPKNOT in Ur Life.

Nirvana is not about guitar solos though lol, its not metal dude. Alternative Rock/Punk Rock always made fun of those 5 minutes guitar solos

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Please react a new song from Weird Genius feat Sara Fajira "Lathi". Now trending on youtube

I lived through the Grunge period. They turned up the bass and turned down the guitar solos. They were desperately trying to get away from the hair band formula.

Good luck trying to make sense of Cobain’s lyrics and many of their videos. Their biggest song was named after a deodorant marketed to teenagers, so if you ever get tired of trying to figure the meaning out, just focus on their great hooks and melodies.

How bout some def leppard?

Kurt hated axil or however you spell it

@MrGoodman174

4 жыл бұрын

Axl Rose?

@athen2379

4 жыл бұрын

Loner Phoenix yeah

@MrGoodman174

4 жыл бұрын

@@athen2379 I forgot how that beef went from the get-go.

Nirvana.polly .

Please react to August alsina Nola please

fans compare kurt to the messie of a generation but kurt put himself in this position wanting fame and celebrity , like jesus coming himself on the cross and waiting for the crows ( people and press ) to eat him , in fact is a metaphorism of himself .

React to something in the way nirvana

I don't think the video has one specific meaning. The song itself is pretty universally agreed to be about an abusive relationship, and a very specific one at that, but I'm gonna let other people talk about that because the video really has nothing to do with abusive relationships, at least on a surface level. The video has a lot of themes and evocative imagery that could mean a lot of things-- you have the old man in the hospital bed who becomes jesus in a santa hat, the dead fetuses, the girl in the kkk hat; themes of birth and death, of the commodification and trivialization of religion in order to inspire and indoctrinate people into hateful ideologies, questions of who is at fault for these ideologies being passed on-- ideas which Kurt, a pretty outspoken feminist and all-around hater of nazis and fascists, who repeatedly expressed frustration that his music was enjoyed by conservative chauvinists who thought it was "macho" because of kts genre, would probably have had a lot to say about. You have the field of poppies, from which heroin is made. This sort of "wizard of oz" imagery with everything. It all makes you think, it makes you _try_ to figure out what it means, and i think that's part of the point. Not to tell you what you _should_ think about it, but merely to ensure that you _are_ thinking about it. This imagery is there because it's evocative and sets a very particular mood, one that doesn't know what the answers are, it only knows that _something_ is _very wrong,_ and it wants you to feel that something is wrong as well. All of these themes: abuse, death, reproductive health, racism and bigotry, and the connection between those things and a highly distilled form of american christianity, are all things that we as a society often try to ignore. But this video doesn't want us to do that. It wants us to look them right in the eye, and sit with them, stewing in the discomfort they cause us, and not running from it. Or at least that's my read. I think the political aspect kf Nirvana's music is often ignored in favor of their more immediately personal themes, but when you're writing so much about things like gender, sex, mental and medical illness, politics are unavoidable-- these things are strongly affected by the political landscape around them, and for those who deal with them the distinction between personal and political issues is non-existent, because their very bodies are political, and they have no say at all in what gets done with them. That's another thing that society likes to ignore, and when these issues compound for years and years with no end in sight, they can kill you. They killed Kurt. However you believe it happened, his death was fundamentally facilitated by the willful ignorance of society to the very issues he sang about until the very end. Healthcare, mental illness, bigotry, abuse, sex, gender. It's all right here. Right in front of us. We just have to be willing to open the curtain and look at it.

I think you would love Highway tune by Greta Van Fleet please react to it 😁

solo 2 at best lol

Best poet genius the goat

I love both Guns n Roses and Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was an amazing song writer and singer but is nowhere near Slash's level at guitar

This song is about his wife who gave him a heart shaped box cause she was interested on him.

@RAMONES3122

4 жыл бұрын

That’s not true. It’s about Courtney’s vagina.

React to somehting in the way nirvana

I think the video was suggesting anything can become a religion if you let it. Maybe I'm wrong.

React to highway tune by Greta Van Fleet

Don’t rate grunge guitar solos. It’s not about technicality. It’s about reenforcing the rest of the song. To sort of prove a point almost. Grunge is dark in its deceptive simplicity. Every little mistake has a meaning

fun fact nirvana ended guns n roses career

Kurt didn’t like Axl lmao look up that drama

Kurt was into fetuses way before Courtney

Is your girlfriend pissed when you give her Valentine's Day present the day after Valentine's Day?

Jesus, Santa, the pope no different...all fairy tales

Next time you should try focusing on the music, rather than the video...

Facts: Krist Novoselic is 7 Ft 2 in and a Senator now.

@riverkirsch8508

4 жыл бұрын

6'7" and not a senator, never was. Interested in politics sure, but wth?

@shelleyburr3988

4 жыл бұрын

Not a fact

@rhec806

4 жыл бұрын

Lol you can literally Google it

🎅 saying religion is fake.

The hood is offensive but the blasphemy is not. Can't pick and choose.

Kurt admittedly did not put much thought into his lyrics. It’s not that deep, it’s just a great song from a great era in music back when people understood irony and everything was cool.

Dont expect meanings on nirvana songs....

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