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Question
Is it me or is there no-one around who really remembers what this song was about? The title doesn't refer to a cardboard box and women knew and discussed this song vigorously when it was released. Now all I read is after-the-fact crap that nobody would have dared ventured {without getting 'busted' by their friends}. It has nothing to do with Cortney Love, etc. Is there anyone who knows about the song and its controversial video?
As with alot of NIRVANA songs, Kurt was often asked the meaning behind his songs. In alot of interviews he has been known to just change the meanings, or answer differently just to keep things interesting i guess. Perhaps so that they true meanings were kept to himself, but had to answer anyways. He has often said on a few of his songs, and also those in which you can read in his journals were just lines he would write randomly and eventually they would meld into a song. Interviews wise, He said said that It was about the gift that Courtney had first given him when they met. He has also been quoted to say that song was written abou children that had cancer. His Journals leave even more for one to self interate.
Hope this helps, your email got tossed into my spam mail, it wasnt untill I recevied a notice from AllExperts that your question was never answered. I hpoe that It wasn't too long of a wait.
Jennifer
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Jennifer Hollman
Expertise
I can answer questions about the release history of NIRVANA from 1989-Present, questions about the history of the band, life & death of Kurt Cobain, the remaining members of NIRVANA, and most questions about his family. I can fact check tour dates, live shows, and just about anything related.
Experience
I helped out Carrie Borzillo, rock new editor for cdnow.com (now amazon.com) with fact checking, an interview, eyewitness account and was given special thanks in her book Eyewitness Nirvana. I've been studying NIRVANA since 1993 and have read literally thousands of books, magazine articles, and other publications throughout the last decade and a half. My reference collection is huge with just about every book, entire release catalog, and more from all around the world.
I started volunteering for AllExpterts.com in 1999 before it was purchased by About.com sometime in the early 00's. You can find all of the answers to previously asked public question dating back to 1999.
I wrote, edited, and published a NIRVANA newsletter (NIRVANA FOREVER), and online zine (About a Son; Lithium) that both ran 7 years on America Online. I've founded and sistered a lot of NIRVANA communities on LiveJournal.com (NIRVANA FOREVER, Kurt & Jim, and NIRVANA Elitests), and Yahoo.com (NIRVANA FOREVER).
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