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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about In Bloom (page 1/ 12) ------ performed by Nirvana Lee Harvey Oswald | Reviewer: stoner steve | 11/4/09 ummm ummm the song is actually about kurts drug connect, who was also his long time friend. Just to note that certain friend that he talks about in the song also gave him the gun that he would later use for his suicide.. beatles? | Reviewer: sdog | 11/1/09 i wonder if the song is about mark david chapman, john lennons killer and what was his feelings and motivation that drove him to do it. He loved lennon's songs but couldn't understand their meanings and "we can have some more nature is a whore" is much like chapman's feelings of lennon's seemingly growing materialism. plus the video is of nirvana as the beatles. this is just a thought i've had about the song . sell the kids | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/14/09 we all hear the song in our own way, neither right or wrong. "sell the kids for food" maybe this is kurts way of saying we only care about money and how it is waht leave a bruise on us because we live and work for paper that has no physical value. we love under the thumb of it and it then end when we are in our death beds what has it truly bought us we eneter this world with nothing but hopes and dreams and we leave the same way Deep In Thought... | Reviewer: MAG | 9/12/09 To start off, I would like to say that I love Nirvana and this song. Ken, you're right, you don't HAVE to understand the meaning, but if you don't, Kurt Cobain's message of this song was totally wasted.I think that Nirvana was as much about the message as the music, especially given Kurt's life story. To me, this song is rooted in extreme rage and sadness. Anyway, I love this song and I DO think the meaning is anger about Cobain's hometown and the pople who can't get the message in Nirvana's music. ffff | Reviewer: Ken | 8/3/09 I dont think you neccesarily need to understand kurts motivation to enjoy his music or even what the lyrics ment, to enjoy the music, It doesnt mean anything to me but i enjoy the song, the song potray more purely and accurately how he felt than cryptic lyrics do its about his hometown | Reviewer: chad | 7/29/09 If you have ever been to aberdeen, or better yet interacted with the people of aberdeen/hoquim you will realize he's talking about his hometown. Its a small town mentality with alot of emphasis on guns, horses, country music, and "family values". The funny thing is that despite loving all these things, the area has latched on to kurt cobain as some sort of prodigal son. The even more funny thing is that this is exactly the thing that he rebelled against. From meeting these people i understand his lyrics. Unfortunately they don't, hence the "come as you are" sign when you enter aberdeen. I don't fully agree with what he's saying but from what i can get from the lyrics " he's the one who likes our pretty songs and likes to shoot his guns" is quite apt for the area. Then "nature is a whore" logging/hunting "which i think is fine in moderation" and mining is the industry for the area. Anyways just my insight. I actually never planned on spending any time there I just am a nirvana fan that ended up there by some weird chance. am i correct? fans, please read!! | Reviewer: Luka | 7/28/09 i'm not a huge fan of nirvana, even though they made a large impact on my tender age in bloom along with guns'n'roses. i write and play myself, so i can see the lyrical direction kurt is heading for here. i agree with one observation below, i have seen some intricate rhyme schemes in kurt's songs before, but the second verse is a validate on even by itself, and when you put the together it only shows how crafty and imaginative kurt was in creating an effectful text. i would even connect the conjoining of the two verses before your inner eye with the process of understanding this song. i can say i largely understand this one too, or at least i made a fair attempt at it :) the line sell the kids for food is about losing personalities in the melting pot of life, kids being the metaphor for innocent and self-fulfilled lives. weather changes moods is actually related to kurt himself and his unstable persona, and simbolizes his unrest in the world where you can't even count on the ...stability and happienes... of the weather itself xD then he brings spring up, i think he uses it as a metaphor for blooming life (waking up into the gloomy and undecisive weather), stripped to its skeletal and obscene essence in the next line, 'reproductive glands' he issues a non-verbal question here- is THIS what life is all about? shallowness, animal instincts, reproduction...perseverance in being inspite of the hostile environment? i also think that this line is actually a statement, rather than a critical observation, because kurt had lost that inner battle long before... the function of the sung chorus, which is actually THE core of the song, became clear to me after the second verse, which shows just how suptle kurt' s poetry could become. we can have some more...the toughset one for me, i think it's a statement directly related not only to 'sell the kids for food', stating that the bulk of his shallow life staring in the face of consumerism was all about easily sacrificing what he stood for, but also an expression of repetitveness he was going through every day, reducing the life and it's daily trials and excitements to a trivial, easily attainable mockery, possibly even addressing heroin as the only source of satisfaction. even though, i have every reason to believe this text is not merely an intimistic cry, as i thought at first, but also an out-loud critic to society as well, which gives it a lot strength (most of the fans recognise only the social critic, omitting the personal part...they in kurt's opinion, 'like to shoot their guns' without 'knowing what it means'). the lines that follow do seemingly continue on 'weather changes moods' and 'spring is here again', but while doing that they bear their own meaning. he apostrophes nature for the creation of life, judging it for 'bruising the fruit', not allowing the life to be full and unharmed, unbruised to use his words. 'tender age in bloom' is the key line here. he points out that this song deals with the crucial moments in the growth of an individual, indicating that bad influence (one he considered bad) leaves a permament mark on a young person. therefore this line also has pesonal touch to it, as it sums up kurt's state of mind while writing this one, the feel that his own 'fruit' will have been bruised after all of it's difficult and stressful experiences while being in bloom, and it rounds up the feeling of being bruised beyond repair that kurt was undergoing, not just the critical meaning, the one of youth choosing the wrong path, hence the two meanings of the song title. while being intimate, this song is a loud socio-psychologic critic (consumerism, hive mind, 'sheeple' etc.) and the anger kurt unleashes while singing the chorus is visible, as he adresses some of his major motivational issues in this song again, which i used to relate to and experience heavily during the large part of my early teens. am i nearly right? what do you think, nirvana fans? Politicall Socialized Punk | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/19/09 This song is about Rednecks and macho men...(those people outside of the underground music scene)...who listens to their music without knowing what it is about, no they knows not what is means! R.I.P: Kurtddd the mix up of versus | Reviewer: timmah22 | 7/7/09 i noticed this back in high school when i started playing guitar. If you take the first line in verse 1 and then the first line in verse 2... The second line first verse and the second line second verse and so on and so on. "Sell the kids for food...we can have some more" "Weather changes moods....nature is a whore" "Bruises on the fruit...spring is here again" "Reproductive glands..."tender age in bloom" To me this makes a little more sense. I might be crazy, but this is what I think Kurt was doing. Sort of his own kind of poetry. Jason's right | Reviewer: EpicNirvanaFan | 6/19/09 Jason's right because this song is jsut all about how people are like sheep and follow the next thing that their friends move to. My friends are all into the new songs and stuff but I choose to stick with good music because i like it not because its "cool". the ironic thing about thwe meaning of this song is that once Nevermind was released and it became 1 of the greatest albums in history all the sheep just followed and listened to it which is why Kurt got really annoyed and threatened to jump off of a stage roof in one of his concerts. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages