Nonetheless, here are seven interesting things about Krist Novoselic: Actually, Pat Smear is incredible, so Krist was somehow the fourth-coolest dude in a three-piece band. Kurt Cobain, the beautiful, tragic, immortal poet, and Dave Grohl, the charming, cheeky, absurdly likeable polymath. He just had the bad luck of being the third coolest dude in a three-piece band featuring two of the most charismatic musicians of all time. Her costume relates her to the Pope (pro-life) and the KKK (conservatism, nativism, fascism)… We’re dealing with mental insanity, or Satanism or both.” She represents the conservative, Christian, fascist, fundamentalists. What’s going on with all the religious stuff, then? Christian philosopher Taylor Marshall interprets it as a comment on the Catholic Church’s stance on abortion: “The little girl is dressed like a KKK member, but also like a Pope. It would be a bit on-the-nose if a director had just come in and done it all, but remember, the video treatment was Kurt’s – he was on a bit of a foetus thing at the time. Heroin, a drug with which Kurt Cobain was tragically more than familiar, is derived from a member of the poppy family.įoetuses and the woman painted as an anatomical model echo both the title and artwork of In Utero. Poppies aren’t just any flower, of course. “I added some stuff – the big woman ‘mother earth’, the road through the poppies, the fake birds, fake butterflies – but this was very much Kurt’s video.” “Kurt had sent me a script that became 90 per cent of the video,” the director later told the New Yorker. …as the old fella climbs up onto a cross (quite full-on, innit). Or, like the album’s title, it’s a reference to the uterus – there’s plenty of foetal imagery to come, and you can just about interpret a uterus as being heart-shaped… Cross’s excellent Kurt biography, the writer memorably describes the lyric, ' I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black,' as 'the most convoluted route any songwriter undertook in pop history to say 'I love you''.

The most likely scenario seems to be that it is a love song, possibly incorporating both the strengthened feelings for another person one often experiences when exposed to tragedy and perhaps some kind of bonus vaginal in-joke. He said it was about children with cancer, his biographers claim it’s about his relationship with Courtney Love, and Courtney herself once claimed – in a Twitter spat with Lana Del Rey after she performed a cover of the song – that it was about her vagina. Kurt’s singing the title, so let’s have a look at what the song actually means.

While I would be proud to have William Burroughs appear as himself in my video, I am more concerned with getting the opportunity to work with you than I am with letting the public know.” They later met and had a lovely afternoon together Kurt described it as one of the high points of his life.

To the extent that you may want to avoid any direct use of your image… I would be happy to have my director look into make-up techniques that could conceal your identity. He wrote, “As a fan and student of your work, I would cherish the opportunity to work directly with you.

The frontman offered him the option of doing it anonymously, so keen was he to work with the author. Burroughs – legendary counterculture writer (Junkie, Naked Lunch) and a hero of his – to play the old man, but he refused. We’re in a Technicolor landscape as a dirty, emaciated figure in a loincloth and Santa hat picks poppies. Fairly spacious room though – must be a private hospital. And that fella in the bed doesn’t look well. The nutso trousers belong to bassist Krist Novoselic on the left, drummer Dave Grohl’s in the middle and singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain is closest to us. Seeing the scene side-on, we realise that it’s the ’Vana boyz themselves on the bench.

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