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Are you sure about your answer to Katina's question about Nirvana's song "Rape me"? I was told that Kurt got pissed at everybody tryin to decipher his songs so he made up this one (rape me) and said "now try to decipher that" meaning 'now lets see what you can say about this' its really just about him being pissed at the media so he wrote this so it couldnt be misinterrpeted (but, weather its me thats wrong or you, someone sure as hell misinterrepted it).
I am 100% positive as Kurt himself has reported in MANY interviews regarding "Rape Me" that it was as I had mentioned before. The song according to Kurt was written many years before the release of In Utero, before NIRVANA was as big as they were, and has nothing to do with the rumor that it was about the media.
You are simply giving in to a rumor. Read some interviews, and you will see.
Glad to be of assistance,
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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