If you listen to Nirvana, you go to high school, and someone asks you what you're listening to, do NOT show them the album cover to Nevermind. You will be referred to as a pedophile for the rest of your miserable high school existence. #LFMF
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Their fail for not being able to recognise an iconic album cover.
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Yep, that’s their fail. Although I disliked Nirvana intensely, I recognized that as one of the most iconic pop cultural images when I was in high school. Ironically, any shock power it might have had was completely bleached out by the fact that the image was everywhere.
it’s EVERYWHERE. how can you not know it?
I’d actually call it their fail for not knowing the difference between sight and sound.
An album cover is an image… you are not listening to a naked baby, you are litening to music. (well I say music, but I don’t know their songs… so it might be “music”)
Actually, I take this back… it’s definately OPs fail for not just saying “Nirvana”.
They asked OP what you were listening to, not a picture of a naked baby. OP showed them a naked baby. It’s highschool, what else do you expect? Next time, think for a second and just say the name of the band and/or song.
“Geffen prepared an alternate cover without the penis, as they were afraid that it would offend people, but relented when Cobain made it clear that the only compromise he would accept was a sticker covering the penis that would say, “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.”[33]”
–Wikipedia
^^ This.
Besides, being refered to as a pedophile is a small price to pay, to listen to the best band of the 90s.
^this FTW^
oh yeah, their depressed whining and mumbling really speak to me!
You’re mistaking grunge for emo. Grunge was never depressed. Maybe listen to some L7, or The Gits.
Nirvana was never depressing? Interesting viewpoint!
yes, calling yourself ugly and asking to be r@ped is not depressing at all!
Has someone ever not “got it” so much in the history of humanity?!!
Unfortunately it’s highly likely.
Oh well, whatever, ……..
Indeed. Precisely what I thought!
Also, “depressed” and “depressing” are two rather different descriptions.
please dont make me defend a brony…
but elaborate, how is saying “r@pe me” over and over not depressing? face it, nirvana was an early form of emo, just whining over and over about how much your life sucks and the world doesnt “get” you
Dude man, that song wasn’t about HIS life. It’s a story about someone else’s.
so what? it doesnt matter if it was about him or not, the song is about “wahhhhh life is so hard and sucks all the time”, emo in a nut shell. The only thing separating the two forms of music is about 10 years
Your interpretation is just that, your interpretation. It’s not wrong, but it’s not right either. Just like my interpretation is right for me, but you may disagree. He says “r@pe me”, true, he is basically saying: “come at me bro” (OMFG, Kurt started it!) then he says “I’m not the only one”, so he is actually finding comfort, happiness even, in sharing the feelings. So it’s actually a happy song in finding solace and or empathy with others. Very un-emo.
You may disagree on my take, but do you at least see how it depends on interpretation?
did you just try to argue a song in which the lyric “r@pe me” is repeated 12 times (with few other lyrics around it) is a happy song? yeah ok, you win troll of the week and this argument is officially dead.
The song is actually a snide remark about media intrusion
The more you know.
It’s not about interpretation… to pass that message across, he can use any number of different kinds of imagery. He used râpe, which made his song into a depressing/emo one. If all grunge is like this, then it most definately IS 90s’ equivalent of emo.
YDI for liking Nirvana.
Come at me, internet.
Not even worth it.
No, I’m with you. I can’t stand Nirvana, except for Bleach and b/c Cobain pimps his Celtic Frost influences on it.
How dare someone like things you don’t like!
…and since babies are born naked, all mothers are also pedophiles.
And if you’re a dude born au natural, your penis has been inside your mother’s vajayjay, therefore you have had sex with your mom.
if you’re in high school, the child on the cover of the album is older than you. just sayin’.
^ This, Seriously though, what is wrong with the youth of today?
Child is named Spencer Elden, and he is 21, give or take.
“Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis,” he told NPR in 2008. “So that’s kinda cool.”
You also have to wonder what sort of nickname they would have come up with if they had seen the BACK of the album.
if you’re in high school, the child on the cover of the album is still a toddler. Time does not age images, it ages what the image is on. just saiyan.
Wow. If they think you’re a pedophile for listening to music just because there’s a naked baby on the cover, they need to chill. Seriously. This is not your fail, OP.
why not call you “baby penis”? that’s a much better nickname
Fake. Kids these days wouldn’t know what an album was, with their MP3s and their compressed audio.
The LFMF could be in retrospect (happened years ago) or he could have shown them the cover as the song was playing on their MP3 player (the song almost always come embedded with the album cover).
why not call you “baby p3nis”? that’s a much better nickname
People get offended by that? I guess showing the original cover of the 1976 Scorpions album Virgin Killer will have you shot by a SWAT team before you can put it away then…
The real fail is listening to anything but Bleach.
lol musically oblivious 9th 10th, 11th and 12th graders, where iconic music is Ke$ha… I don’t wanna live on this planet anymore.
then leave
neither did your hommie curt, why dont you follow suit? plenty of gun stores around
Besides, isn’t it more fun to mess with somebody who asks, “hey what are you listening to?” by just saying “nevermind!” ?? It’s like who’s on first! Waste of a perfectly good comedy opportunity.
You’re saying other people’s ignorance is your fail?!
And if they really don’t know about the album cover, why can’t you just, I dunno, send them a Wikipedia link or something so they can see how astoundingly popular that album has been – we can’t all be paedophiles, can we? I think I was about 13 when I bought that album.
Because they don’t care and just want an excuse to make fun of him.
That’s part of the fail…
-them : “What are you listening to?”
-him : “LOOK AT THIS NAKED BABY!”
-them : “yeeeaaaahhhhh… no thanks pedo”
If he had simply answered, there would be no name calling.
Right…haven’t they ever seen a picture of a naked baby before? That’s hardly a sexual thing, since babies come out naked and are often allowed to wander around with nothing on.
The true fail is listening to Nirvana.
You Sir, like the others who say the same thing, have terrible taste In music. Nirvana Is the best band in the 90′s. And they still are, arguably, the best Grunge band even today.
This ^
You deserved it, why didn’t you just say, “Nirvana”? Honestly, either you were sitting their with your CD case like a hipster, or you showed them the tiny image on some MP3 player, and it probably took them a few seconds to even figure out what it was, and when they did, with the crappy quality and the brain’s desire to label things as quickly as possible, it probably just looked like a naked baby.
You also deserved it for listening to Nirvana. No one likes Nirvana as much as they like “telling” people (ie, annoyingly shoving it their face) that they like Nirvana.
I like Nirvana more than shoving said taste in people’s faces. What now?
Now you just disproved your point by shoving in our face that you like Nirvana.
Even Akbar could not save you from that one…
Chris Robbins, The Black Crowes:
“Everyone was so fascinated by Nirvana because they sold so many records, why can’t they be fascinated by them because that guy writes really good lyrics, and, they rock”.
To all those well meaning posters who mention grunge, or best band of 90′s or: “Although I disliked Nirvana intensely (fine…), I recognized that as one of the most iconic pop cultural images when I was in high school. Ironically, any shock power it might have had (it had none, it wasn’t intended or created to have any, you consider a naked human baby shocking????????!) was completely bleached (lol) out by the fact that the image was everywhere”,…… you missed the point entirely……:
“Everyone was so fascinated by Nirvana because they sold so many records, why can’t they be fascinated by them because that guy writes really good lyrics, and, they rock”.
No more, no less……..
Wait… good lyrics? I must have the wrong band here… *looks for nirvana music* no… no… I had it right.
Chris Robbins, The Black Crowes : so the opinion of one member of another musical group being positive means they must be good and not just popular because of shock value? OFF COURSE!
You think that’s bad? I once jokingly talked about driving vans around an elementary school for fun. Now my permanent High School nickname is Pedo Bear