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Rape Me is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. The song was released as the second single from Nirvana’s 1993 album In Utero, packaged as a double a-side along with “All Apologies.”
“Rape Me” was written by Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in an apartment in Los Angeles, California in May 1991, around the time the band’s second album, Nevermind (1991), was being mixed. It was first performed live on June 18, 1991, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, and subsequently played several times at Nirvana concerts during the next two years. These early live versions featured a dissonant, semi-improvised “anti-solo” after the second chorus, which was replaced by a bridge in the song’s final incarnation.
The band had wanted to debut it at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on September 9, but MTV insisted on them playing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” instead. According to the Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, the network’s reasoning was not so much due to the controversial usage of the word “rape,” but rather because they assumed Cobain was using the song to jab at the media (and MTV) for their abuse of his celebrity status. (Only weeks earlier, a Vanity Fair article depicting Cobain and his wife Courtney Love as unfit parents nearly resulted in the removal of their newborn child Frances Bean Cobain from their custody. MTV News was one of the media sources who reported this story.
“Rape Me” was written by Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in an apartment in Los Angeles, California in May 1991, around the time the band’s second album, Nevermind (1991), was being mixed. It was first performed live on June 18, 1991, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California, and subsequently played several times at Nirvana concerts during the next two years. These early live versions featured a dissonant, semi-improvised “anti-solo” after the second chorus, which was replaced by a bridge in the song’s final incarnation.
The band had wanted to debut it at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on September 9, but MTV insisted on them playing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” instead. According to the Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, the network’s reasoning was not so much due to the controversial usage of the word “rape,” but rather because they assumed Cobain was using the song to jab at the media (and MTV) for their abuse of his celebrity status. (Only weeks earlier, a Vanity Fair article depicting Cobain and his wife Courtney Love as unfit parents nearly resulted in the removal of their newborn child Frances Bean Cobain from their custody. MTV News was one of the media sources who reported this story.
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mystuff1 wrote:
rape me my friend rape me again great shit
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Ayamepanda wrote:
epic song haha
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jsnruf wrote:
your mother sucks
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kraiye wrote:
FUCK THIS SONG SUCKS!!
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puenktsche wrote:
thats not rape me ^^ its even in his youth...but also a nice song :D
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rafik123456 wrote:
to nie jest "Rape Me" !!!
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postelectropunk wrote:
Play Rape Me please.
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davidbowiegirl wrote:
Great song <3
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y505115850 wrote:
大爱~！
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missnumberthree wrote:
This is Even in his Youth but oh well i still love it lol +1 yep
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jelenavuckovic wrote:
so what if it was a band i didnt know until now and they made a mistake? how much harder would that make my life. gaaah.
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Loem wrote:
even in his youth
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Sulisk wrote:
Love it
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saokid_123 wrote:
This is Even in his Youth but oh well i still love it lol
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TheHolyman666 wrote:
EXCUSE ME WAITER, I BELIEVE I ORDERED RAPE ME.
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heat_seeker wrote:
amazing song.
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LuckyDevil007 wrote:
V What they said V
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idabom wrote:
really good song with great lyrics. shame that there are no bands like nirvana nowsdays.
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zla-mags wrote:
really good song with great lyrics. shame that there are no bands like nirvana nowsdays.
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