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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 Smells Like Teen Spirit (page 5/ 12) ------ performed by Nirvana Good song but..... | Reviewer: whoever you want me to be | 4/3/08 This is a great song but the meaning is slightly construde. I have heard many, many different tellings of the core meaning to this song and most cant comply with the others. This song has a great beat and is nice to listen to but Weird Al had a point when he wrote "Smells Like Nirvana" that this song makes no sense and is very incoherent. Deoderant | Reviewer: Ashley Albertyn | 4/2/08 I'm a lyricist for an up and coming band. I'd like to say that if their music could be explained it wouldn't be art now would it? I've heard it said that Kurdt wrote many of his songs just minutes before recording. Smells like Teen Spirit was only performed live once(to raise gas money for a trip to their new label's recording studio) and never again. If Nirvana were still around today I think their sound would've been diluted into the pop rock we find ourselves forced to listen to. The death of Cobain kinda ensured that that would'nt happen. Maybe the words only had meaning to Kurdt himself and the rest of Nirvana? We could argue about meaning forever cause Kurdt is'nt gonna tell us. So just enjoy, it's what he would've wanted. smells like teen spirit | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/10/08 this song is not about generation X or abour not caring, it is about a girl kled tobi that jurt or kurdt ,w/e 1 u like, luved, he luved tobi loads n she left him, the song woz writen about her, if u read heavier than heaven ull relise lyrics | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/6/08 a song is not a song with out lyrics... the person that writes them it must mean something to them ... deep down there is always part of them in there people just don't relies that most of the time Hi | Reviewer: Kana | 2/8/08 I'm a 18-year-old Japanese. I've been crazy about NIRVANA since I met this song exactly last year. It's hard to understand English, but I'm happy that I could know them while I am a teenager. Well... It imports little for me to know the meaning of their songs but I won't forget what I felt through them. Ah-, I want to say more, but my English is poor. Anyway, thankyou NIRVANA for telling me what real music is. real kurt cobain | Reviewer: merlin | 1/30/08 great song, sure. but come on. i see this song as the death of kurt cobain. he never wanted the lifestyle this song gave him. everyone listened to it, even people who didn't like this style of music. people say that that's a good thing, but it isn't. people would listen to it and not even know who it was by or who kurt cobain was. and for those of you who say the lyrics aren't important, thats rubbish. because kurt was a genious. of music, and of words. his lyrics blow my mind. especially heart shaped box and aero zeppelin - my favourite song. and if you want good music? listen to songs like aneurysm. ever wonder why they never made it? because people wouldn't listen to it because it's not 'catchy' or 'pop'. that's the only reason smells like teen spirit made it. because anyone would listen to it. that just doesn't seem important enough. incesticide was a cry for help! and to shake the burden of fame. that's the real kurt cobain. we will never forget you. David | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/30/08 I think this song is, as the title suggests, a representation of teenagers. The whole song kind of flips about much like the attention and interests of teens. At first it seems like a bunch of kids joking around about guns and violence and such. Then it quickly changes to what seems like a guy and girl together confused about sex and how to do it right. The chorus, to me, is about self-confidence. If you're one of those kids who stands out, you'll probably be picked on. Being less dangerous with the lights out seems like the need to hide themselves and fit in teens usually feel. Here we are now, entertain us reminds me of the way teens sass adults and think they are the center of the world. Kind of nonchalant about everything. The next line "I feel stupid, and contagious" reminds me of how teens are usually belittled by authority figures (parents, teachers, cops, etc); especially if they are rebels. You know how it is, "he's a bad apple, a cancer to his peers, he's not going anywhere in life..." then snap the attention back to themselves and flip their thoughts around randomly from racism, blending in and being small and annoying, as seen by others (Mulatto, Albino, Mosquito respectively). Being the Teens they are, they always come back to sex. The next part seems a bit confusing but underneath, I think the lyrics imply how teens appreciate they can be carefree and get away with it and that their friends now will last forever. Repeat Chorus The next segment just seems like the way Teens try and get their message across only to be misunderstood by "the man" so they eventually give up, being the nonchalant, carefree spirits they are. Repeat chorus A denial x9 just seems to be how Teens feel denied of responsibilities (why can't I buy liquor? Why can't I buy smokes? etc). Since they seem to happen everywhere at that age, repetition is effective. I just went through this phase of life myself and looking back, a lot of that seems to fit...but music, like art (especially when music is art; like this song), is meant to be interpreted by people differently. NOt what you think... | Reviewer: Brent | 1/14/08 The line..." Here we are now, entertain us," is something Kurt used to say when he'd go to parties. He'd be like, "You invited us here, and we're here, so entertain us." He says this in the Rolling Stone interview about 3 months before he died. Kurts video for it | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/8/08 it is indeed a janitor representing kurt because he dropped out of the highschool and got hired there as a janitor and plus i kinda do think it is a hooker... listen to it closely im so stupid it is CONTAGIOUS here we are now ENTERTAIN us. but no question about it THIS IS THE GREATEST BAND EVER RIP KURT COBAIN! I think he is talking about a hooker | Reviewer: Maddie | 12/31/07 Hi all, I think Kurt is talking about a hooker. "She's over bored and self-assured I know, I know a dirty word" then the song goes "With the lights out, it's less dangerous (apparently some kids may think sex is less dangerous with a prostitute in the dark") Here we are now, entertain us (a group of guys looking at the hooker) I feel stupid and contagious (this line talk about aids) Here we are now, entertain us A mullato! An Albino! A mosquito! (I think by mentioning all these different people,except for the mosquito of course, denotes the idea that everybody has sex with prostitutes) My Libido! (well this word clearly talks about sex)(if you don´t know the meaning look it up in the dictionary) Yay!(x3)" I´m not a fan of Nirvana but I like their songs, I think they are all obscure and misterious. There´s always a hidden message in the lyrics but everybody interprets the meaning in different ways... hope you can see a different point of view. :-) thanks for reading... 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