It's still wide open to interpretation, but the stream of thought is a lot more coherent this way. Just in case it would help others, I’ll list them all together: The meaning seems to become a bit more clear when you read it that way. each line in the first verse corresponds with the same line in the second verse. I'm not so sure about the message that you took away from it, but I think that you are spot on about the structure of the song i.e. It's been a while since I've read the liner notes from Nevermind, but I'm inclined to believe your interpretation. I have to say that this has to be one of the most well thought out comments that I have ever seen about lyrics. The song no doubt has a meaning describing people who listen to catchy, "pretty" music without really paying attention to what it means, but I think there's a much deeper meaning about adolescents who sleep around as soon as they start getting horny, as soon nature lets their little bodies develop. The first line of the verse is about using the reproductive system of plants for food, and the chorus is about using the reproductive system of humans for fun, without paying it any respect. Shooting his gun is shooting your load, and the man doing it is blissfully ignorant of the importance of the creation of life that it represents. He's the one who likes all our pretty songs The most literal sentence here, again using the nature theme to describe human fertility. Spring is here again, bruises on the fruitĪnother reference to entering puberty and this time abused genitalia (abused in that it's used carelessley too often). Mother nature is a whore because she makes us so volatile. This is about the mood swings that girls experience going into puberty and pregnancy (the weather of her body). It's about using the reproductive system for something other than what it is meant for (in this case food, the theme is linked to again in the chorus). The kids in nature would be fruits, which you'd sell as food, since you'll always be able to have more fruit. Sell the kids for food, we can have some more He uses nature as a metaphor for human fertility. It makes more sense that way (on the inside cover it is written that way in a poem) Look at it this way, the first line of the first verse goes into the first line of the second verse, the second line of the first verse goes into the second line of the second verse, and so on. It's not random, you have to read into it. You guys are doing exactly what Kurt is talking about. In other words someone who does have't a clue about what the song means likes to tell others what it means. "Likes to shoot his gun" means likes to shoot his mouth. Everything before the chorus it just random words. It’s optimistic.I love how this song is in the video game 'The Rock band' or whatever, hypocritical, much?īecause we all know it was Kurt's choice to put his song in a video game p In the song, it’s the same venue, band and crowd-but the perspective has shifted. We can safely assume that Simpson was one of those stupid teenagers who sang along to Nirvana songs, having no idea what they were actually about. In fact, this version is certainly a tribute and perhaps a thank you to Cobain. But, in Simpson’s version of “In Bloom,” homage is definitely being paid to the isolated ’90s grungster who originally wrote the song. (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. 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.
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