2006-08-31 11:20:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
It's the 90s version of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." Kurt Cobain was making fun of the stupidity of teenagers who blindly follow the crowd and convention. He highlighted his disdain for them by pointing out how ridiculous a high school pep rally is... how everyone screams and gets excited on command... but how it's so meaningless.
The title of the song probably means that teen spirit is fake and therefore smells like sh!t... over the years since the song was released some people have said the title was making fun a girls deoderant called "Teen Spirit" but I don't see how that makes sense given the lyrics and the video.
But what a cool song, huh?
2006-08-31 11:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Teen Spirit" is a U.S. deodorant brand sold by Colgate-Palmolive. Cobain got the song name when friend Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the riot grrrl punk band Bikini Kill at the time, spray painted "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" on his wall. Since they had been talking about anarchy, punk rock and similar topics, Cobain took it to be a slogan in that vein. The meaning, however, was that Kurt smelled like the roll-on deodorant brand that Tobi Vail, Hanna's band mate, and Kurt's then-girlfriend, wore. Cobain claimed that he did not know it was a brand of deodorant, and in retrospect was unhappy that a commercial product was named in the song.
In the months after the song became a hit, Colgate-Palmolive created an ad campaign to try to cash in on the connection. One TV commercial featured lines including "Do you smell like teen spirit?" and "Deodorant made for your generation".
2006-08-31 18:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by Kammi S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a critique and a deconstruction of the typical unexamined culture and values that are imposed by the highschool educational system.
In that regard, it is similar to Pink Floyd and "the wall" "we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control, no dark sarcasm in the classroom . . "
The video gives additional context to the lyrics and the music.
2006-08-31 18:26:34 · answer #3 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a saying that's about teens and their hormones getting busy.
2006-08-31 18:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by jerry 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means something like:"Here we are, there's nothing to do. Where do we go from here?" The whole song is nonsensical, but palpalably frustrated: "Here we are now, entertain us."
2006-08-31 18:25:17 · answer #5 · answered by Strange Design 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unh Unh. I've never heard of that before!
2006-08-31 18:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope
2006-08-31 18:22:07 · answer #7 · answered by Ewww Gross 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋