Polly: Nirvana's Darkest Song
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SOURCES
Jessica L. Wood, "Pained expression: metaphors of sickness and signs of 'authenticity' in Kurt Cobain's "Journals"
Popular Music Vol. 30, No. 3 (October 2011), pp. 331-349
NYTimes original review of Nevermind:
www.nytimes.com/1991/09/27/ar...
Band and producer talking about the track:
• Nevermind: Chapter 8 -...
Cobains 1991 NME interview:
www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/n...
Cobain's 1992 Guitar World interview
www.guitarworld.com/artists/k...
Amazing site containing catalogue of Kurt's equipment, where I found the receipt for the Stella
www.kurtsequipment.com/
Polly wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_(...)
News clipping of '87 crime that inspired the song:
news.google.com/newspapers?id...
Duane Fish, "Serving the servants: An analysis of the music of Kurt Cobain"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.10...
MUSIC
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The more I learn about kurt cobain, the more I miss this man I never met
Kurt had a lot of female friends in high school. He hated how his male classmates and boys treated them like objects and only wanted them for sex and other things. So he treated woman with respect and dignity. That’s one thing I respect about him.
Kurt being an ardent feminist is totally lost on so many male fans. They love to dunk on gnc and female fans and Cobain would def be against that
I love how kurt cobain was a feminist lgbtq ally and anti racist in a time where that wasn't mainstream like i love that man with all my heart he is my favourite male feminist
I wonder what he was thinking when he finished the song and people cheer like that.
That man was brilliant, and is extremely missed
Kurt: sings a serious song about rape
Kurt was a lyrical artist and an empathetic, emotional genius. He was in a class by himself ..no other male artist came close and even today..nobody can or has come close. Anything else I could say about him would sound too cliché.. and if there's one thing Kurt Cobain is not-it's cliché. I miss him unbearably. Wish he knew the deep impact he had on those of us lucky enough to watch him come into his own from the very beginning. This man changed the world.
...Cobain's look at the end when everyone claps for their song. It feels like a palpable disappointment -- that the audience didn't listen to the song and merely consumed the experience.
Kurt was such an empath, constantly acknowledging and acting for a cause, that he took it all in and suffered by himself.
Sometimes I think about how dark his songs are and it makes me wonder exactly how dark his mind was ,a place he had to navigate all on his own. And then I think it's a miracle that he made it living with those dark thoughts as long as he did before giving up. It's sad that with so many people that felt so connected to him he didn't feel he had enough gelp.
He was on another level of genius. I couldn't even imagine singing something like this, nevermind writing it. He literally traumatized himself irreversibly for us.
Some people are too deep and too beautiful for this harsh world- Kurt was one of them.
polly, it’s the song that means the most to me. I was sexually assaulted by someone who was 16, i was 12 at the time. It wasn’t as bad as the meaning of polly. Still it speaks to me.
Okay, but, why isnt anyone talking about how calming his voice is? Like, it's so calming to the point to were i want him to read me a story when I go to bed XD
Honestly I always thought “Paper Cuts” was the most disturbing and dark. Just a song about parents, torturing, neglecting and locking their kids in the Attic for most of their lives really creeps me out. Don’t get me wrong Polly is really disturbing but its just really creepy from Kurts perspective as he grew up in a neighborhood near these kids and it’s just chilling to know what was really going on once they were caught.
Not being racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. shouldn’t be political, it’s called being a human being and having empathy. Rest In Peace Kurt. (Edit: Yes, I’m aware what political definition they were using I’m saying it SHOULDN’T be political.)
Kurt:
"Polly wants a cracker, I think I should get off her first."
He definitely had childhood trauma that he never dealt with. Tragic