![]() (Gasp) Some Nirvana purists are not entertained by this. Simpson takes a song about alienation in a crowd and weaves it into a love song. It completely changes the meaning of the song. There’s that somewhat psychedelic slide guitar and the fool changes the lyrics (?). ![]() When Sturgill Simpson covers In Bloom on his album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, the song is reworked, slowed down. He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs ![]() Or put another way, less Black Flag and more “The Iggy Pop/Aerosmith-type songwriting,” as Cobain described it and admitted to imitating on Nevermind. Like Cobain, their songwriting is a collage-style tableau of words with apparent influence from the Dada and Surrealist art movements. In an interview with Melody Maker, Cobain admitted that his songwriting was inspired by the ’80s alternative rock, namely, The Pixies. Cross made in his biography on Cobain, which reasoned that “In Bloom” is a “thinly disguised portrait of Cobain’s friend Dylan Carlson.” Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad recognizes this as implicitly ironic because, “The tune is so catchy that millions of people actually do sing along to it.” There’s also another argument, which Charles R. The song was, apparently, written to address, or poke fun at, the people outside the underground music scene who started coming to Nirvana shows after their first studio album. “In Bloom” is just the sort of Cobain song where the point is missed when a meaning is distilled. ![]() “You could read into them anything you want… Kurt - I would call him a windmill… He wanted to be a rock star - and he hated it.” “He was cagey about his lyrics,” Nirvana bassist, Krist Novoselic later recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone. The answer will probably not be made clear after a cold read of the lyrics of “In Bloom,” which tracks at number two on Nirvana’s outstanding album Nevermind. ![]()
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