Hey, it’s Courtney Love’s birthday. In her honor, please enjoy this MTV Unplugged performance by Nirvana of “All Apologies.”
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I do not know what this song is about but these apologies do not seem sincere. Kurt Cobain supposedly said it was a positive, happy song and he used to sing it as a lullaby to baby Frances Bean, but I’m having a hard time feeling the happy. A song that starts “What else should I be/All apologies” and ends with “All we are is all we are” seems to be both fatalistic and passive-aggressive. (The lyrics sound fatalistic and passive-aggressive to me; I am not adjectivally sneering at Kurt, so please do not yell at me.) Feel free to tell us what YOU think the song means!
