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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 Polly (page 3/ 12) ------ performed by Nirvana Wiki. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/2/08 According to Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are, "Polly" is based on the true story of a female rape victim from Tacoma, Washington. The girl, 14, was abducted in 1987 while returning from a punk rock show, and was raped and tortured with razors and a blowtorch by her abductor. Cobain's only narrative flourish is that the victim manages to escape by flirting with her captor, convincing him to let her go. In the liner notes to Nirvana's 1992 compilation Incesticide, Cobain expressed disdain for an incident which occurred after the song's release on Nevermind. "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly,'" he wrote. "I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience." From the heart | Reviewer: With the Lights Out | 12/5/08 Look everyone, im only 15 and even i can sense the deeper meanings of "polly". Cobain was able to empathize with the victim (regardless of her age, race, or hometown) because he himself felt her pain in a way. If you look at many of Cobains other works: "Jesus Don't want me for a Sunbeam", "I Hate Myself and I want to die", "Heart-Shaped Box", "Rape Me", Cobain seems to come back to the central fact that he himself feels used and whored out by the world. Cobain was able to connect with the tragic tale because he self-styled himself as a victim too. He himself is quoted as saying "...My lyrics are a pile of contradictions, split down the middle between very sincere opinions i have, and sarcastic opinions..." Cobain is ridiculing the whole scenario in the song "polly", while also weaving in his own place in the tale. He seems to almost hint at sarcasm or derision in the lyrics, belittling himself and hinting at self-guilt and his evident self dislike, as he speaks from the rapist's point of view .This is why he portrays himself as the "bad-guy". Cobain throws himself into both roles of the captor and captive, displaying his feeling that his problems are his own fault and he is in essence raping himself. If you truly think about it, that is the core concept of Cobain's tragic life. Kurt Cobain was a literary genius, and i regret to see that most of his modern day fans know little to nothing about his central figure and beliefs. To a sincere and devoted enthusiast, this is extremely discouraging. all you poser fans should be ashamed. Cobain never wanted to be a big deal, he never wanted to be a sensation, he doesnt deserve to be treated as a freakish side show attraction. Kurt Cobain is simply Kurt Cobain, and always will be. wow... | Reviewer: rich | 10/10/08 wow all of you are idiots....The girl didnt die morons she started acting like she enjoyed being tortured and he began to trust her overtime...and no she wasnt his captor for "years".. So she rode in his truck untied because he believed that she enjoyed being his slave. When he stopped at a gas station she took off. She didnt die from burns and yes the girls name is POLLY...nothing else... i miss the innocence | Reviewer: niamh | 9/14/08 i love this song! and when i was little i thought it was about a parrot too. however, i knew that it had a deeper meaning. i just couldn't figure out what it was. now that i know the story about this poor 14 year old girl, every time i listen, i cant get the image out of my head. nirvana is probably my favorite band of all time. but i miss those days when i didn't always know what their songs meant. an observation | Reviewer: Me | 8/9/08 This song and "Rape Me" seem to be from different perspectives of the same event. Rape Me seems to be from the perspective of the person being raped while this seems to be from the perspective of the rapist. truth | Reviewer: anonymous | 7/2/08 yes kurt wrote the song about a girl who was raped. then 2 men sang this song while raping someone else. its a song of torture. and NO, a 15 year old didnt die. a 14 year old was raped. get your facts straight. About "Polly" | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/21/08 Most of you are right about what this song is about. Cobain's inspiration for this song was a story about a girl who got kidnapped at a show, (not a Nirvana show) and got raped. Cobain read this in the newspaper and was deeply touched by it. That's the story I read about, not sure if it's true, however. Who wants a cracker | Reviewer: Mr. Moustache | 6/11/08 I amazes me how dumb nirvana fans can be sometimes, but i guess that just proves how smart kurt cobain was. yeah, when i was 10 i thought this song was about a parrot, but thats the genius of it. he made kids like me hum along to songs that were really about torture and rape, simultaneously making critcs analyze his lyrics like its freakin dylan or something. like any great art, the context gets deeper only as you grow older. just to clarify things: the song assumes the narrative of the rapist obviously (think i should get off her first). but when the chorus comes in, they add the feminine like backing harmonies so then its the victim talking back to the rapist. as the story goes, the victim in tacoma flirted back with the rapist in order to catch him off guard, and then run away. this is obvious in the lines - 'need some help, to please myself'. cobain probably dips a bit further and introduces the concept of love in the willingness of the victim to help straighten out the rapist (let me clip, youre dirty wings). in the end, the rapist is caught off guard, as the victim flees. however, im sure cobain was intending to take this meaning even further that ALL relationships b/w men and women are foreshadowed by this scenario: man wants some action, woman lets him have it in turn for fixing his evil ways, man falls in love and does anything woman wants (polly says her back hurts), man and woman are bored in relationship (shes just as bored as me), woman sees opportunity to leave when man is not looking (caught me off my guard), woman leaves man when her instincts tell her to do so (amazes me the will of instinct). Genius. kurts suicide | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/12/08 im tired of seeing kurt and suicide in the same sentence/paragraph book or whatever it so stupid yall go and listen to the media and believe everything the say go to cobaincase.com or http://www.petitiononline.com/gk94k/petition.html and i bet yall wont say its suicide anymore Kurt "suicide"?????? | Reviewer: selfdestruct | 5/12/08 ok first of all polly is about a 14 year old girl that got kidnapped raped and torchered thats why it says i have to get of of her first..then she wants to some water to put out the blow torch bcause she was hung upside down by her feet and torchered with a razor whip and blowtorch...second of all Kurt did not kill himself im tired of seeing Kurt and suicide in the same sentence even page/book or whatever if u believe he killed himself got to cobaincase.com and http://www.petitiononline.com/gk94k/petition.html and i bet whoever says it was a suicide would never say it again every one just go by what the media says and since they says it was a suicide then yall think it was do some research for once Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages