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i think this whole song is about partying to escape from troubles of life. on verse 3, first three lines is about what he thinks about life or serius things, but after that it says “oh well, whatever, nevermind” which i think means “nevermind the problems and continue partying”. And “a denial” part being repeated so many times proves my point (he’s denying the life and problems)
The lyrics are a sardonic opinion about the average, idiot, conformist who brings nothing of value to the real world and doesn’t know he doesn’t know that. The track has a tone of disdain for ignorant people who follow, go through the motions and never seem to think for themselves. Kurt feared that people result to gluttony and materialism because they are told it’s the only way to be happy. His comment “stupid and contagious” is about how most of humanity is generally an ignorant, pretentious parasite that eats away at the necessities of the Earth at an alarming rate. “load up on guns, bring your friends, its fun to lose and to pretend” is another comment that mocks the average idiot for his hedonistic living style and ignoring all the problems on Earth. Kids “play” guns in suburban towns when there are numerous countries distraught by war/poverty.
“And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind”
ANOTHER comment on mindless gluttony and thoughtless consuming. Then the following line points out how people are fickle and adaptive, as they tend to change their minds about what they want/need once they get it. I think Kurt hated dumb people because he secretly envied the way they look at the world through an optimistic, irrational lens. high intelligence and depression are very connected: I have found an extremely high association between intelligence and the likelihood of becoming severely depressed. In fact, a high IQ is a good predictor of depression. Why? Simply because those with higher intelligence are amazingly “creative” with their inner dialogues.
Some of the characteristics of high intelligence are an above-average imagination, superior verbal ability, and advanced analytical skills. This is the perfect recipe for cooking-up very elaborate, and very negative, inner dialogues. And that’s exactly what happens. This helps explain the well-known phenomenon of “tormented geniuses”. Simply, their submission response is often out-of-control. And, despite their genius, they don’t know how to stop it.
A denial is repeated 9 times, almost as if the track is stuck on repeat, the song will end, but not Kurt’s dilemma. He never made it past the demons mentioned in the song and the terrible truths in the song stayed on repeat in his head until it drove him to kill himself.
“It’s fun to lose and to pretend”
She’s overboard, self assured
“Denial”
The statements in parenthesis are unannotated. The first line is alluding to how boys feel when they are dumped by a girl. He loss Tobi Vail and would tell himself negative things about her, in an attempt to console himself for losing her. Basically, it was her fault and not his ineptness. Placing the blame on her is easier than looking in the mirror everyday knowing she needed more than what he could offer.
“Denial” being screamed repetitively to explain what “pretending” really is; a “denial” of the fact that she needed more than he could offer. This fact was pointed out by: Shmoop Editorial Team. “Smells Like Teen Spirit Title” Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 9 Nov. 2013.
This entire song alludes to his life being a full fledged “denial.” For Kurt Tobi, drugs, and music were escapes from his miserable reality and Tobi’s departure caused drugs and music to lose their effectiveness. He had become famous and wealthy, yet still in misery. Wealth and fame is what the American culture pushes as dreams, goals, and happiness. Kurt recieved what most believe for and yet remained unfixed.
John Sanburn reported on November 8, 2012 the following. “A new paper from the San Francisco Federal Reserve shows that, all else being equal, suicide risks are higher in wealthier neighborhoods, a morbid demonstration of the folly of trying to “keep up with the Joneses.” Death was the only fix left, Kurt felt could allow him to rest from his own misery.
People really tried to interpret these lyrics? They’re obviously nonsensical. You can tell by how all these explanations feels forced, like the authors desperately want this song to have a message. I think the lyrics were simply made up and added to the melody in a fitting way. Maybe there’s a line or two in there that has actual meaning, but to pretend like the whole song has is silly. We have to accept the fact that not all songs' lyrics has meaning behind them.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, Nevermind (1991), released on DGC Records. The unexpected success of the song propelled Nevermind to the top of several albums charts at the start of 1992, an event often marked as the point when grunge entered the mainstream.[1]
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was Nirvana's biggest hit in most countries, charting high on music industry charts around the world in 1991 and 1992, including topping the charts of Belgium, France, New Zealand and Spain. The song garnered widespread critical acclaim, including topping the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll. The song was dubbed an "anthem for apathetic kids" of Generation X, but Nirvana grew uncomfortable with the attention it brought them. In the years since Kurt Cobain's death, listeners and critics have continued to praise "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as one of the greatest songs of all time.
The music video for the song is based on the concept of a school concert which ends in chaos and riot, inspired by Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 film Over the Edge and the Ramones' film Rock 'n' Roll High School. It won two MTV Video Music Awards, and was in heavy rotation on music television. In subsequent years Amy Finnerty, formerly of MTV's programming department, claimed the video "changed the entire look of MTV" by giving the channel "a whole new generation to sell to". In 2000 the Guinness World Records named "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the "Most Played Video" on MTV Europe.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2001, The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ranked the song at number 80 on their Songs of the Century list. In 2002, NME ranked the song the number two on its list of "100 Greatest Singles of All Time", while Kerrang! ranked it at number one on its list of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Time".[2] In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ninth on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[3] In 2017, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was one of several songs written following Nirvana's first recording sessions with producer Butch Vig in 1990. Singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain began writing it a few weeks before recording their second album, Nevermind, in 1991.[4] He said it was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he admired:
I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band—or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.[5]
When Cobain presented the song to his bandmates, it comprised just the main guitar riff and the chorus vocal melody.[6][7] Cobain said the riff was "clichéd", similar to a riff by Boston or the Richard Berry song "Louie Louie".[5] Bassist Krist Novoselic dismissed it as "ridiculous"; in response, Cobain made the band play it for an hour and a half.[5] Eventually, Novoselic began playing it more slowly, inspiring drummer Dave Grohl to create the drum beat,[8] which drew from disco artists like The Gap Band.[9] As a result, it is the only song on Nevermind to credit all three band members as writers.[10]
The title derives from a phrase written on Cobain's wall by his friend Kathleen Hanna, singer of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill: "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit".[11][12] Hanna meant that Cobain smelled like the deodorant Teen Spirit, which she and Tobi Vail, his then-girlfriend, had discovered during a trip to the grocery store.[13] Cobain said he was unaware of the deodorant until months after the single was released, and had interpreted it as a revolutionary slogan, as they had been discussing anarchism and punk rock.[14]
Prior to the album recording, the band sent Vig demos for songs including "Teen Spirit". While the sound was distorted due to the band playing at a volume, Vig felt it had promise.[15] Vig and the band recorded "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, in May 1991.[16] Vig suggested changes to the arrangement, including moving a guitar ad lib to the chorus and shortening the chorus.[17] The band recorded the basic track in three takes, and used the second take.[7] Vig corrected some timing errors created by Cobain switching between his guitar effects pedals. Cobain recorded only three vocal takes; according to Vig, "I was lucky to ever get Kurt to do four takes."[18]
Sample of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind. The sample illustrates the change in dynamics from verse to pre-chorus and chorus.
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a grunge,[19] alternative rock,[20] and hard rock song.[21] It was recorded in the original key of F minor and follows a Fm-B♭m–A♭–D♭ chord progression,[22] with the main guitar riff constructed from four power chords played in a syncopated sixteenth note strum by Cobain.[23] The guitar chords were double tracked to create a "more powerful" sound.[24] The chords occasionally lapse into suspended chord voicings as a result of Cobain playing the bottom four strings of the guitar for the thickness of sound.[23] The riff resembles that of Boston's 1976 hit "More Than a Feeling",[6] though it is not identical.[22] Cobain said: "It was such a clichéd riff. It was so close to a Boston riff or The Kingsmen's 'Louie Louie.'"[5] During the verses, Cobain used a Small Clone effect pedal to add a chorus effect.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" uses a "somewhat conventional formal structure" consisting of four-, eight-, and twelve-bar sections, including an eight-bar verse, an eight-bar pre-chorus, and a twelve-bar chorus.[25] Musicologist Graeme Downes, who led the band the Verlaines, says that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" illustrates developing variation.[26] Elements of the structure are marked with shifts in volume and dynamics, moving from quiet to loud several times. This structure of "quiet verses with wobbly, chorused guitar, followed by big, loud hardcore-inspired choruses" became an alternative rock template.[27]
During the verses, the band maintains the same chord progression as the chorus. Cobain plays a two-note guitar line over Novoselic's root-note eighth note bassline, which outlines the chord progression. Approaching the chorus, Cobain begins to play the same two notes on every beat of the measure and repeats the word "Hello".[22] Following the first and second choruses, Cobain simultaneously sings the word "Yay" and performs a unison bend on his guitar.[28] After the second chorus, Cobain plays a 16-bar guitar solo restating his vocal melody from the verse and pre-chorus.[25] During the closing refrain, Cobain sings "A denial" repeatedly; his voice becomes strained from the force of yelling.[24]
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released to radio on August 27, 1991. On September 10, it was released as the lead single from Nevermind, Nirvana's major label debut on DGC Records. The song did not initially chart, and it sold well only in regions of the United States with an established Nirvana fanbase.[29]
The single was intended to be a base-building alternative rock cut from the album, and was not expected to be a hit; the follow-up single "Come as You Are" was planned as the single that could cross over to mainstream formats. However, campus radio and modern rock radio stations placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on heavy rotation. Danny Goldberg of Nirvana's management firm Gold Mountain said: "None of us heard it as a crossover song, but the public heard it and it was instantaneous ... They heard it on alternative radio, and then they rushed out like lemmings to buy it."[30]
The video received its world premiere on MTV's late-night alternative rock program 120 Minutes and proved so popular that the channel began to air it during its regular daytime rotation.[31] MTV added the video to its "Buzz Bin" selection in October, where it stayed until mid-December. By the end of the year, the song, music video, and the Nevermind album had become hits. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Nevermind became a rare cross-format phenomenon, reaching all the major rock radio formats including modern rock, hard rock, album rock, and college radio.[32]
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was also a critical and commercial success. It topped the 1991 Village Voice "Pazz & Jop" and Melody Maker year-end polls and reached number two on Rolling Stone's list of best singles of the year. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the same week that Nevermind reached number one on the albums chart.[33] "Teen Spirit" hit number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and has been certified platinum (one million copies shipped) by the Recording Industry Association of America.[34] However, many American Top 40 stations were reluctant to play the song in regular rotation and restricted it to night-time play.[35]
The single was also successful in other countries. In the United Kingdom, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" reached number seven and charted for 184 weeks.[36] The song was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal and Best Rock Song.[37] Entertainment Weekly would later name Nirvana's loss to Eric Clapton in the Best Rock Song category as one of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history.[38] Outside the United States, the song topped the charts of Belgium, France, New Zealand, and Spain. It charted within the top five of several European countries and reached number five in Australia. It appeared on several year-end charts, including number 10 in New Zealand, number 17 in Belgium and Germany, and number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart.[39]
In the wake of Nirvana's success, Michael Azerrad wrote in a 1992 Rolling Stone article: "'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is an anthem for (or is it against?) the 'Why Ask Why?' generation. Just don't call Cobain a spokesman for a generation."[40] Nevertheless, the music press awarded the song an "anthem-of-a-generation" status, placing Cobain as a reluctant spokesman for Generation X.[41] The New York Times wrote that "'Smells Like Teen Spirit' could be this generation’s version of the Sex Pistols' 1976 single, 'Anarchy in the U.K.', if it weren’t for the bitter irony that pervades its title ... as Nirvana knows only too well, teen spirit is routinely bottled, shrink-wrapped and sold."[42]
Nirvana grew uncomfortable with the song's success and, in later concerts, often excluded it from the set list.[43] Prior to the release of the band's 1993 follow-up album In Utero, Novoselic remarked, "If it wasn't for 'Teen Spirit' I don't know how Nevermind would have done ... There are no 'Teen Spirits' on In Utero."[44] Cobain said in 1994, "I still like playing 'Teen Spirit', but it's almost an embarrassment to play it ... Everyone has focused on that song so much."[5]
Dubbed an "anthem for apathetic kids" of Generation X,[45][46] in the years following Cobain's 1994 suicide and Nirvana's breakup "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has continued to garner critical acclaim, and is often listed as one of the greatest songs of all time. It was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" in 1997.[47] In 2000, VH1 rated the song at number forty-one on its "100 Greatest Rock Songs" list,[48] while MTV and Rolling Stone ranked it third on their joint list of the "100 Greatest Pop Songs".[49] The Recording Industry Association of America placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number eighty on their 2001 "Songs of the Century" list.[50] In 2002, NME awarded the song the number two spot on its list of "100 Greatest Singles of All Time",[51] with Kerrang! ranking it at number one on its own list of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Time".[2] VH1 placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number one on its list of "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years" in 2003,[52] while that same year, the song came third in a Q poll of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".[53] In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ninth on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time",[3] and described its impact as "a shock wave of big-amp purity", noting that "[it] wiped the lingering jive of the Eighties off the pop map overnight."[54] The song was placed at number six in NME's "Global Best Song Ever Poll" in 2005.[55]
In the 2006 VH1 UK poll The Nation's Favourite Lyric, the line "I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now, entertain us" was ranked the third-favorite lyric by over 13,000 voters.[56] VH1 placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number one on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs Of The '90s" in 2007,[57] while Rolling Stone ranked it number ten on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".[58] In 2009, the song was voted number one for the third time in a row on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time in Australia[59] (it was first place previously in 1991[60] and 1998).[61] That year, VH1 ranked the song seventh on its list of the "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs".[62] Despite previously proposing in its 2006 entry for Nevermind on "The All-TIME 100 Albums" that "'Smells Like Teen Spirit' ... may be the album's worst song,"[63] Time magazine later included it on its list of "The All-TIME 100 Songs" in 2011.[64] That same year, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" kept its number nine ranking on Rolling Stone's updated list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time",[54] while in 2019, the magazine ranked
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