Chapter 789 789 Nirvana Band

The powerful guitar strumming was amplified by the sound and sounded over the entire playground, and then the drum beat cut in. The familiar melody was like a storm falling on the beach, leaving a deep imprint on the hearts of every audience. Just a prelude easily made the audience boil.

It's "Smells. Like. Teen. Spirit", which is Nirvana's most well-known song, and it can be said to be Nirvana's most commercially successful song, whether you like Nirvana or not, or more or less Shaodu should have heard this song, and it was this song that was born, creating the peak grunge dynasty belonging to Nirvana. It can be said that this song embodies the spirit of Nirvana, and also permeates the soul of Kurt Cobain.

Therefore, it is just a prelude, and it only needs a prelude, which is enough to make the audience boil, and the scene is still dominated by high school students. This "Youth Mind" can be said to express their minds incisively and vividly. The frenzied gestures at the scene were no surprise.

Hugo was a little surprised. He didn't expect Nirvana to perform "Youth Mind" live, because as far as he knew, because of the song's great commercial success, Nirvana would be asked to sing on almost any occasion. This song, and Kurt, who has a rebellious and uninhibited temperament of a teenager in his bones, just did the opposite, and has refused to sing this song in public for more than half a year.

Kurt stood in the center of the stage, and Hugo couldn't see his expression from this angle, only a side view. Kurt was carrying an electric guitar, playing seriously, his head lowered, his shoulder-length hair completely concealed his expression, he was like a young eagle immersed in his own world flying freely, spreading his wings and flying freely , but he didn't care about the outside wind and rain, he just released his inner emotions to the fullest.

This kind of Kurt vaguely overlapped with the man who was delirious and disdainful of Hugo just now. He never wanted to wrong himself or hide himself. He was like someone in this world. An alien, willful wanton, proud and uninhibited. Just like his talent, it is too dazzling to be seen directly.

Although I saw Kurt just now, it seemed like he couldn't stand still, but when he stood on the stage, a hoarse voice came from the microphone, and at that moment, his soul seemed to be glowing, and the melodies were like The raging fire burned his soul, releasing infinite vitality.

This is the real stage!

Hugo originally thought that he already had enough understanding of the stage, but at this time, when he looked at Kurt who was swaying freely on the stage, the shock that came to his face still made his heart start to tremble slightly, and he couldn't help it from the depths of his soul. Cries of happiness, he also wants to shout loudly, he also wants to jump on the spot like all the audience at the scene, and use the whole body movements to release the enthusiasm in his body.

The real stage is not staged in sight, but in the space of the soul and heart.

When everyone mentions Nirvana, they always use the album "Don't mind" as a coordinate to measure, and the name of the album "Don't mind" comes from a lyric in "Youth Mind", "Oh, well, never mind, never mind (Oh. Well, Whatever, Never. Mind)."

"Teenage" was written a few weeks before the "Never Mind" album was recorded, Kurt said, "I was trying to write a song that was absolutely pop, and I was basically Trying to break away from The. Pixies."

In one riff, Kurt played it to Quess, Dave, and the others, with only the main riff and the chorus, because Quess thought it was too gibberish and didn't want the song. But the stubborn and proud Kurt insisted that they play the main riff for an hour and a half, which is the one before the chorus "Hello, hello, hello, how bad it is." , Hello, How. Low)" is like the origin of the magic sound filling the brain. Then, a miracle happened.

After Quess had repeated that segment countless times, he suddenly said, "Hey, wait, why don't we make it slower?" Then Quess started to play the verse and Dave started to cut to the drums. , and then, this great song is made.

It is because of this that the author of the song was written as Kurt, Quess and Dave.

The melody of the song "Youth Heart" is certainly brilliant, but it is the lyrics that really elevate the song to the classic ranks, which is the reflection of Kurt's soul.

Kurt started working on the lyrics after he had composed the music, when he remembered his ex-girlfriend, Tobi. Vail, who was the only girl who could get him off. Good friends Kathleen - Hannah (Kathleen. Hanna), they are all members of the bikini killing band (Bikini. Kill). Kurt remembered that Katherine once wrote a line on the wall of his house that made Kurt very proud and narcissistic - "Kurt. Smmmmells. Like. Teen. Spirit".

This is an allusion.

It happened six months before the song was born, when Kurt and Toby were still together, so they were hanging out with Katherine a lot. Kurt likes to graffiti some slogans and slogans on the walls of the streets and alleys. One day, when Kurt sprayed "God. Is. Gay" on the outer wall of a religious center, Katherine gave Kurt a look.

This matter is very important to Kurt, because once Kurt was arrested for graffiti on the wall, when he showed his graffiti talent in the detention center, he painted the female body for the inmate so that the other party could Get on a plane, then change a few cigarettes to smoke.

Always, that night Kurt and Catherine went crazy, and when they finally got back to Kurt's rented apartment, Catherine still didn't know what to do, she scribbled all over the wall of Kurt's bedroom with a marker, and then He fell asleep because he was drunk and tired, and woke up the next day with a hangover to find the first case still holding the marker.

Although Catherine wrote a lot of things on the wall that day, the sentence "Kurt has a youthful spirit" impressed Kurt the most, because Kurt thought that Catherine was complimenting him, saying that he had a kind of ten-odd spirit on him. The rebellious spirit of a teenage teen is extremely satisfying for the narcissistic Kurt.

So, when Kurt finished writing the melody and thinking about the lyrics, he thought of this sentence that made him proud, and then he called Catherine and asked her for her approval. song title. In fact, the lyrics of the whole song vividly interpret the phrase "youthful spirit".

It would be great if that was the case, but reality is always cruel and full of irony. Because Katherine wrote on the wall of Kurt's bedroom, "Kurt has a boyish spirit", the original intention was not to praise Kurt for his juvenile spirit, but because Kurt's then girlfriend Toby often Use the "Teen. Spirit" brand of deodorant - a brand for young girls that has since skyrocketed in sales due to the song's fame.

Kurt and Toby were dating, so Kurt had the scent of the deodorant on him.

However, Kurt didn't know it when he wrote the song, and Kurt didn't know the truth until a few months after "Teenage" was released, much to Kurt's dismay.

In fact, no matter what Katherine's original intention was, the birth of the song "Youth Mind" was inevitable by chance, because Kurt is a narcissistic but extremely confident person. When he sees being praised, he He won't ask the reason at all, he will only believe that he is living in his own world. And this kind of narcissistic, self-confident and proud spirit is actually an indispensable trait in "juvenile spirit".

But it is undeniable that this beautiful misunderstanding between Katherine and Kurt is indeed a classic.

The song "Youth Mind" is actually Kurt's rejection and contempt for the mainstream. It expresses the rebellion and reform of the new generation of young people in the mainstream society. Destiny, this is the spirit of Nirvana, and it is also the real reason why Kurt and Hugo quarreled just now.

Kurt believed that Hugo was the representative of the mainstream, and the rock and roll advocated by To the Dead Glory was a kowtow to the mainstream, which Kurt deeply despised.

In Kurt's view, mainstream means adherence to the rules, a lack of progress and innovation, and more importantly, the rules and means that social masters use to limit social change.

Therefore, "Youth Mind" is to tell people not to blindly follow the mainstream, but to bravely challenge the mainstream, question the mainstream, criticize the mainstream and even initiate a revolution. Life. Kurt once said that he wrote the song because he felt "disgusted with the numbness and indifference of my generation, and my own numbness and lack of spine", and the submission and pandering to the mainstream created the indifference.

In fact, in the later period, Nirvana refused to sing "Youth Mind" in public, which was also a manifestation of Kurt's dissatisfaction with himself. Along with the grunge trend created by "Never Mind", in Kurt's eyes, Nirvana has also become a part of catering to the mainstream, and his positioning of the band and of himself has been shaken.

Kurt sometimes even hates himself like this, "We still feel as if we are still teenagers and don't have to follow the so-called adult code of conduct", but when Nirvana really became synonymous with grunge, Kurt discovered that, The cruelty and irony of the phrase "involuntarily".

Hugo suddenly understood why Nirvana Band was willing to sing the song "Youth Spirit" today, not only to arouse the spirit of the teenagers in front of them to resist the mainstream of society, but also to wake up the rebellion of the band members. and resistance.

At this moment, Kurt is like a beast trapped in a cage. On the one hand, he wants to break free from the shackles, but on the other hand, he has an infinite fear of the outside world. This contradictory mentality makes Kurt at a loss. .

Hugo looked at Kurt on the stage, and his heart was filled with emotion. Although he and Kurt had just had an unpleasant encounter, at this moment, Hugo felt Kurt's roar as deeply as never before, hidden in the lyrics. With the cry of his soul, so helpless, so lonely, so hesitant.

This is the real rock and roll, singing with the soul, making people cry.