Nirvana: Cobain’s Answer to Gen X Angst

20/10/2022 6 min
Nirvana: Cobain’s Answer to Gen X Angst

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Give me an a---a, give me a n---n, give me a gst---gst! What’s that spell?... angst!... What’s that spell?... ANGST!... Louder! What’s that spell?... A N G S T!... If you want to express the angst in your life you gotta let it rip and if you found yourself screaming in the last, largest, and longest spelling of angst then you are Nirvana fan club material. But what brought you to the band along with their greatest hit, Smells Like Teen Spirit, that you still like 30 years after it was released. The title?… no, Teen Spirit was the name of a deodorant Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend used and he liked the sound but that’s how poets choose words. The boy meets girl sappy quality of pop music?...No. if nothing else Smells Like Teen Spirit is not sweet. It had a soothing effect?... Not hardly, just the opposite, because the message was partly responsible for the song’s popularity. Get up out of your apathy! Get up! Get up! If you are full of angst and don’t like your life, get up and scream your head off!... Dance it off!

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