‘In Bloom’ – Nirvana
Kurt Cobain never seemed to have any idea what lay ahead of him in the early 1990s. Anyone dreams of being a big rock and roll band when they’re a kid, but as soon as Cobain got a taste for fame, he didn’t realise the kind of baggage that came with being a rockstar, let alone how much it would affect his relationships with everyone else. He did know a fair bit about the fans that he didn’t want, and he figured that he could get some of the guys who used to beat him up in high school out of his fanbase before he reached the top of the charts.
While they had only been an indie band before Nevermind, ‘In Bloom’ was one of the first times people heard the kind of hooks Cobain was working with. A lot of the verses may have seemed like gibberish half the time, but once they reach the chorus, the frontman had a very specific type of person in mind, making fun of the dumb jock types who listen to this kind of music while they polish their guns and don’t bother listening to the lyrics.
But perhaps the funniest part of this entire argument is that many of these bullies probably didn’t put it together that they were being made fun of. And don’t worry, because those people haven’t gone anywhere. No, they have grown up to find out that their favourite songs had something to say and are usually the ones that are yelling at artists to stick to the music instead of speaking their minds in the modern age.