Remember when Kurt stopped in the middle of a concert to stop a sexual assault? And then the rest of the band members laughed at the dude who did it and made HIM feel uncomfortable? I do. A beautiful musician, gone too soon.

ironic how so many male nirvana fans are raging misogynists and somehow think they know "what kurt wouldve wanted" when theyre literally the people he didnt want listening to his music

People who don’t think Nirvana was a feminist band clearly didn’t listen to Territorial Pissings. And are the exact people he was singing about in In Bloom.

Excellent . I still can remember listening to Nirvana with a boyfriend when I was in my teens.He was this homophobic Hockey player who loved Queen and Nirvana. I remember that I explained the meaning behind many of Nirvanas song were opposite to what he believed.He actually became more accepting and open towards others after that...

There was also that one time they had a concert in some latin-american country. They had an all-girl band as their opening act, and they got boo-ed of stage. Kurt was pissed at the crowd after that, so they played the first chords to "Smells like Teen Spirit" and just stopped to tease them several times, then just played songs nobody wanted to hear until they ended the concert early. There's footage of it here on youtube, it's pretty funny.

The people who claim to love Nirvana but are dismissive of their blatant progressive feminism are the same kind of chuds who unironically say "I liked RATM until they started getting political"

Kurt Cobain was so ahead of his time it was crazy. We need him now more than anything also, kudos to this guy for making this video

I wish there were more men out there with the empathy and emotion of Kurt. He was gone too soon.

Kurt was a strong feminist and very vocal about being anti-racist.

NIRVANA SAYS GAY RIGHTS

The same people who listen to Nirvana/RATM and are homophobic/sexist are the same people who don't realise they're the ones being criticized in movies like the matrix and fight club. It's so bizzare how so many people are just blatantly ignorant like that.

Kurt is the anti-incel man and we STAN

'I'm not the only one' is 1993's '#metoo'.

Nirvana - Territorial Pissings Never met a wise man, If so it's a woman.

conservatives so often miss the point of the media they consume. movies like fightclub, games like bioshock, music like... literally the entire punk movement. the message and satire just flies over their heads

Guns N’ Roses is one of, if not my favorite band, but I don’t look up to them as people at all. The members of nirvana especially Kurt understood stuff that many people don’t get today, and that is something that you can’t say for GNR.

When Nirvana came to Argentina in 1992, they brought with them a band made entirely with girls called Calamity Jane. The public in the concert treated the girls like shit and Kurt was so mad about this that he wanted to cancel the full show. Finally his partners convinced him to play but he refused to sing "Smell like teen spirit" as an answer to the audience attitude.

This might help some people to understand that Cobain was not just a "troubled kid", but a commited man who was fighting and resisting in such a variety of fronts (education, youth emancipation, mercenary media, feminism, etc).

To all the stereotypical straight men in the comments : feminism --> women = men, NOT women > men. Therefore, Nirvana was a VERY blatantly feminist band. Now if you're not okay with that, you go against everything Kurt Cobain stood for, so maybe stop listening to his music and go find another random male artist who enjoys degrading women (trust me, there's a lot).

Don’t copyright this video I allow it

"I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll" - Kurt Cobain

such a good synthesis for people not familiarized with nirvana, their music, and the message they were trying to convey to the world. This is a great video to show to any person who thinks Nirvana was just another "angry garage band" of the 90s.

This proves why nirvana is my favorite band and will always be

Kurt was ahead of his time. Nirvana is one of my favorite bands. I really didn’t think of them as feminists until I really dove in to Kurt’s life and Nirvana’s music. He is a sweetheart.

My dad is a huge homophobe but he loves Nirvana I showed him in bloom then came out he told me to get out of his house In Bloom is one of his favorite songs 😂😂😂

Let's be totally honest. If Kurt Cobain were alive today, angry young misogynists in Reddit, Twitter, and UKposts comments would be calling him an SJW.

They put Morals BEFORE Money, something Nobody does anymore!! They were and are such an amazing group of men.

kurt is a *WOKE KING*

If Kurt was alive today, he would still be a feminist.

Thanks for this. I was a huge Nirvana fan back in the day, but I was so young that most of these messages pretty much flew over my head, and in the intervening years I never quite took the time to go back and hear them. It's not a stretch to learn that, coming out of the scene they did, they would share such views, but it certainly seems true that, for whatever reason, their legacy in popular culture hasn't included their passion for social justice and their role in bringing that discussion into the music mainstream.

Wish Kurt was here today to educate the people who are still misogynistic today.

It sucks how many people who claim to be nirvana fans who are misogynists, or bigots of any kind. kurt would hate literally hate their guts

I know.. Kurt loved women and he genuinely loved them, not just for their bodies... Guys now days would call him a white knight, but he was a true gentleman.. and I would take that any day over a "nice" guy....

Oh boy these comments are gonna be fun

hi axl hi axl Where's Axl? hi Axl!

this is why I love Nirvana... Rest in Peace Kurt Cobain

Kurt is such a amazing person

you forgot to add this as one big one. On October 30th, 1992, Nirvana were booked to play a major show in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were so big at that point in time that they just about sold-out José Amalfitani Stadium, which can hold nearly fifty thousand people. Prior to their set, Kurt Cobain witnessed the negative reception their hand picked opening act received, and was so incensed that he considered canceling the gig. Nirvana ultimately did perform that night, but they were sloppy and their set-list was more than a little unusual, as they purposely incorporated rare songs from their catalogue that they knew most of the audience wouldn’t be familiar with, including a couple of unreleased numbers. It ended up being one of their oddest shows, and it was all captured on videotape by a professional film crew.“When we played Buenos Aires, we brought this all-girl band over from Portland called Calamity Jane,” Kurt recalled. “During their entire set, the whole audience-it was a huge show with like sixty thousand people-was throwing money and everything out of their pockets, mud and rocks, just pelting them. Eventually the girls stormed off crying. It was terrible, one of the worst things I’ve ever seen, such a mass of sexism all at once. Krist, knowing my attitude about things like that, tried to talk me out of at least setting myself on fire or refusing to play. We ended up having fun, laughing at them (the audience). Before every song, I’d play the intro to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and then stop. They didn’t realize that we were protesting against what they’d done. We played for about forty minutes, and most of the songs were off Incesticide, so they didn’t recognize anything. We wound up playing the secret noise song (‘Endless, Nameless’) that’s at the end of Nevermind, and because we were so in a rage and were just so pissed off about this whole situation, that song and whole set were one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had.” (from Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects)

i know so many people who likes nirvana but are sexist and homophobic *the irony*

this went straight to my comfort playlist. i regularly need a reminder men like kurt existed, exist at this very moment, somewhere. i just miss him and never even knew him. thank you kurt, thank you endlessly

Hey dude, cheers for including that "No means no" bit. That's awesome of you.

I live in Olympia, WA. Nirvana is everywhere (Not that I'm complaining.) I get my guitar lessons the same place Kurt would get his guitars fixed and they even have signed things from him and receipts of him crashing overnight hanging framed on the wall. I really enjoyed this video btw!! I love Nirvana and their messages and what they stood for, amazing job on this :)

The comment section is filled with angry men who just discovered that their idol was a feminist.

No wonder he shot himself, he felt like no one of his fans understood him and his messages failed to reach them

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means Knows not what it means And I say yeah

Honestly I forgot how much Nirvana's music helped me . They've always been one of my favorite bands but as someone who has dealt with sexual assault listening to them really helped me in a time when I was down. I loved that Kurt aligned himself with topics that are still controversial today.

I remember listening to Nirvana as a kid and getting frustrated because I knew I liked it but didn't know why. I felt like I could almost -- but not quite -- understand it. In retrospect, I can say they absolutely got me thinking. Not so much about feminism (dyed-in-the-wool feminist from birth, intersectional before it became trendy, never ashamed to say it, so no awakening needed there) but about what I expected from the music I listened to. I mean, I still loved the 80s pop/rock/metal that shaped my early childhood, but I know I thought a lot more critically about music and its messages after Nirvana happened. I feel privileged to have seen them in their prime.

The band was very ahead of their time and had strong messages on social issues which is really lacking in today's rock music. Most of the messages today are very cliche and marketed not genuine.

Kurt Cobain, one of the most aware and underrated songwriters in rock

A Nirvana video! Heck Yeah! Cobain has literally been quoted as saying he wish he was gay, just so he could piss off homophobes." I always thought that was so cool, especially since Nirvana was the FIRST band I ever fell in love with as a confused bisexual teenager. Hearing that helped me come to terms with myself. I'll respect Kurt forever for that. He never forgot what it was like to "be different."

This is why I get so annoyed at all the anti social justice Warriors that act like being a kind person is new. There are so many alt-righters in the comments

This world needs more Kurt Cobain's.

just like punk rock was a response to prog rock, grunge was a response to all that glam metal shit that was a thing in early 90's; both with music and philosophy. great video, man. nirvana was such an important band to me as a teenager of the 90's. it's great to see that people still listen to their music and talk about their lyrics. cheers

When I was young-(boy)-er, there was this guy who would sexually harass me without me knowing what harassment was. Obviously, he took advantage of my innocence since I was four at the time. He did this every time I visited his home because my mom was best friends with his mom and dad. Then there was this year when my mom told me about rape, I was eight at the time then we went to his home for a Christmas party and he lifted me up to the mirror and put his hand up my skirt and into my underwear. I knew something was wrong, my mom told me about it, and I managed to get out before it got worse, and I convinced him to let me go. When it came to the part where you talked about Polly and its story, I began crying. I was eight years old when it happened and when you said "Can you imagine how much strength that took?" I remembered what my mom said to me when I told her about it.

The world would have been a much better place if we had more people like Cobain!

the more I'm learning about this guy, my respect for him is increasing manifold. His thoughts, lyrics and words are relatable entirely today. We need guys like him, man.

Truth. One issue I had with Christopher Cross' Cobain bio was how the author glossed over the grunge musician's feminist politics, and his involvement with riot grrl punks, his love of the Breeders, and advocating for Patty Schemel as a replacement drummer for Hole. Like somehow those things didn't correlate to his affection for his mother, sister, daughter, and Courtney Love. Or even the fact that the R&R HoF performances by Nirvana were all headed by women--a fact Cobain probably would've loved. I feel like the person who's really upholding the feminist legacy for Cobain and Nirvana is Krist Novoselic--or the dude who was in Nirvana with him for the longest amount of time, and the one who still has a serious pulse on the PNW punk scene. Not that anyone else associated with Nirvana is terrible, but Novoselic has done some pretty amazing things to ensure Nirvana's legacy remains entangled with the parallel riot grrl scene.

There was not a drop of toxic masculinity to be found in that band. One of the reasons why they’ve never stopped being a favorite of mine.

Not only a feminist but also a left wing revolutionary

This could make me cry. Such a wonderful soul

I've noticed the people least receptive or sympathetic to Nirvana's 'feminist' leanings tend to be the most passionate floaters of Courtney killed Kurt conspiracy theories.

do a video on joy division and how they influenced indie music and mad chester

Could this be similar to The Beatles not playing segregated audiences?

Yep. I became a fan of the music as a child, but as an adult after reading books, watching interviews, quotes, etc. I also became a fan of Kurt as a person. He was a self admitted feminist, anyone doubting that should read or watch some of Kurt's interviews. He even played at Rock for Choice (pro choice benefit). He was against homophobia, racism, sexism, a lot of the issues important to so many today. Considering the amount of macho posturing bands did back in the 80s and 90s, I think it's awesome that Nirvana were so openly against that shit.

When I turned 14, an uncle of mine gave me 2 CDs. Nirvana's Nerermind and Pearl Jam's Ten. Yeah, Pearl Jam rocked and still does, but Nirvana just blew me away. It opened my musical world to punk and old indie bands and just felt like something that got me at the time. I have all their albums, Books and DVd and they are still my favorite band of all time. I knew they had songs that explored women's issues, but I never really stopped to think how it was such a big part of their music. Cheers for the video.

You need to do one for ELLIOTT SMITH

Fantastic video, Jesus Christ, the respect I have for Nirvana and the messages they wanted to spread will never stop growing

Dude these people getting upset over women deserving the same treatment as men is fucking funny

Being feminist in the late eighties was different than being feminist today. Society changed a lot since then.

Congrats on the video and especially on promoting "No Means No Worldwide"!

such a beautiful video!!! it gave me chills!! it’s so refreshing to find a video like this. wonderful commentary and it was put together very well!!

Thank u4 making this video. Kurt was so upset when the exact abusive men who he talked about started listening to his music & singing along. The song "In Bloom" was a song written about those men. The inside joke was meant to show how they sang along, not knowing that what they were singing about went against everything they were. Kurt's songwriting & strength in his beliefs should be taught in music classes everywhere.

Wish Dave Grohl would've continued this activism instead of going more pop rock... That's the biggest gripe I have with the Foo

People are going to try to say “Oh well Feminism is different now” The same argument against the current wave of feminism has been the same argument FOR DECADES now. Just because people shape these arguments to be new doesn’t mean they are.

This is shit I literally tell everyone, Nirvana was incredibly woke and respectful. Kurt hung around women when he was younger and realised how language and music oppressed women. Fuck man, the rock scene rn needs to listen more closely to shit he wrote and said. “Never met a wise man If so it’s a woman” - Territorial Pissings, Nirvana

ive been a big fan of nirvana and only recently found out about bikini kill (oddly enough), and it JUST clicked that tobi vail is THE tobi vail from bikini kill

So great to see the amazing charity plug at the end of this video. Also great video, was so awesome to see you covering these topics :)

Great video man. It's great to see someone focusing on these issues that were so important to Kurt. I was just old enough that my own views on the world were being shaped when Nirvana broke out into the mainstream. I gravitated heavily to them and picked apart kurts lyrics. I think this is how he would want us to remember him.

Thank you for this video. I wish for more people to see it. It’s great and I love the message and awareness you’re trying to spread-especially with the organization at the end of the video. Great one

Thorough. Nice editing, as always, and schooling me once again on the big details I somehow overlookef.

This video is gonna make some people mad, I can already feel it

Plz do a video on The Doors or even Jim Morrison himself

I wanna slap my face when people say "Sappy" is about Kurt's turtle.

I love this video. I've always enjoyed watching the exact people the song In Bloom is about sing along and claim they are huge Nirvana fans.

An ad of Dave grohl came up before the video lol

I loved this video, just about as much as I love Nirvana and their music. Nirvana was a band ahead of it's time, yet made it a whole generational movement. I feel like definitely the messages got lost among so many fans they had, and I can't claim that some of these songs meanings didn't miss me either. But I'm so glad they weren't afraid to speak out, and just be a booming voice among the crowd someone that they couldn't ignore.

So many people in this comment section are so mad for no reason. Like they clearly don't know the definition of feminism and it SHOWS.

"He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, but he don't know what it means"

This was super interesting. I’ve never been much of a Nirvana fan and you’re completely right that it gets swept under the rug. I had no idea Cobain felt so strongly about these issues, absolutely radical.

I am glad a man voiced it (because so the anti-feminist movement has one point less to criticize) . Shared it on social media. Well done.

7:53 the drummer syncs with the beat in the background of the video

This video reminds me of how Billie Joe Armstrong drop kicked a man who was assaulting a woman at one of there early concerts.

" I NEVER met a wise-man If I did , It's a WOMAN ." ---Kurt Cobain

You make incredible content and I am glad that for Nirvana, you explained their lyrics, their message and how socially aware they were. Not just they are grunt and cool. This is a great video and I love that you teamed up with No Means No because things are very important. Your videos are very good and really inspire me, I appreciate your channel very much.

Wow just looking at the dislikes shows how many salty people there are

The right kind of feminism.

sappy was about how kurt treating his pet turtle similar to how God treat his people. been a son was about his misogynistic father disowning his gay sister.

I’ve got a new drinking game. Take a shot of vodka for every comment you see saying that sappy was about a turtle.

What a fascinating video and thanks for sharing. I have recently came across your page and I am intreged! Learned new stuff about one of my favourite bands growing up in the 90's and if I may ask polyphonic if you can do a video covering Imagine if you have not already done and also Reveloution 🙏, Your videos I have watched have been interesting and informative but not in a negative way to say the least...I have learned subjects of my favourite bands and ones I grew up listening to!!😊 Please keep up the good work and the fantastic video work🙏👏👏👏👏

This is why I love Nirvana so much! Kurt Cobain was too smart & sensitive for a world like ours. His views were so ahead of his time & everything he said still holds true today. Sad that he had to take his own life!