Smells Like Teen Spirit was written by Kurt Cobain for his band, Nirvana and is found on the album Nevermind. Kurt got the name when Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) spray painted "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on the walls of his apartment. She spray painted this because, at the time, Kurt was dating Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill, riot grrrl) and she wore Teen Spirit deoderant, so Hanna said Kurt smelt like her. A parody of the song was later made by Weird Al Yankovic called "Smells Like Nirvana".
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The delusion of suburban teens that their life is horrible, their parents are evil, they are entitled to everything without any effort or hard work on their part, and that they are bad asses that can "take" anyone.
Suburban Teen Syndrome (STS):
Teen 1:"My parents are like the worst! they took away my iPhone 4 because i sent out like 10,000 texts. Like seriously, it's only 10,000 texts."
Teen 2: "Really? oh-em-gee. It's not like they have any idea what it's like to have that many friends. And seriously, like they can't afford it! Whatevs".
Teen 1:"My parents are like the worst! they took away my iPhone 4 because i sent out like 10,000 texts. Like seriously, it's only 10,000 texts."
Teen 2: "Really? oh-em-gee. It's not like they have any idea what it's like to have that many friends. And seriously, like they can't afford it! Whatevs".
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With the lights out/ it's less dangerous/ Here we are now/
Entertain us/ I feel stupid/ and contagious/ Here we are now
Entertain us/ A mulatto/ An albino/ A mosquito/ My Libido/ Yeah
How much more random can you get? Smells Like Teen Spirit isn't really about anything. The title comes (indirectly) from deodorant. Maybe that's what the sweaty fans need when they're jumping around in the poorly ventilated gym. Hey, just a guess.
Entertain us/ I feel stupid/ and contagious/ Here we are now
Entertain us/ A mulatto/ An albino/ A mosquito/ My Libido/ Yeah
How much more random can you get? Smells Like Teen Spirit isn't really about anything. The title comes (indirectly) from deodorant. Maybe that's what the sweaty fans need when they're jumping around in the poorly ventilated gym. Hey, just a guess.
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Get the teen sex mug.A very good but overplayed song by Nirvana that Kurt Cobain claimed was his attempt at making "the ultimate pop song." Inspired heavily by The Pixies, according to Cobain, in fact he called the song a "Pixies rip-off", though the now extremely famous riff is often compared to Boston's "More Than a Feeling". Title was inspired by a friend of his telling him he "smelled like teen spirit." Kurt had no clue that there was a deoderant of that name and took it as though he was teenage-like. Basically the song that killed hair metal music such as Van Halen, Gusn N Roses, Poison, Whitesnake etc. I personally like the song a lot though I must admit the radio stations have killed it by now. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was chosen by Rolling Stone as the 9th greatest rock song of all time. I suppose influencially, it was up there, virtually inspiring every hard rock band after them, though there are better Nirvana songs. In my opinion, what the song is isa very good part punk, part 70s style hard rock, part Pixies soft-hard effort piece of music that is a lot better than the other trash that was out at the time.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" destroyed the trash music known as hair metal though unfortunetely ended up influencing tons of bands that sound nothing like Nirvana, such as nu metal and pop punk shitbands.
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"oh man, Seinfeld is on"
"i don't wanna get up you?"
*lifts arm and moans*
"my friend, im afraid our teen syndrome has kicked in"
"i don't wanna get up you?"
*lifts arm and moans*
"my friend, im afraid our teen syndrome has kicked in"
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