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Unless this is a different version than the one on Nevermind, it wasn't recorded in Dec. of 1991. Flyerhell 05:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
The only single from Nevermind that could have worked for In Utero. 98.246.84.7 (talk) 02:45, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Removed this POV content:
Im a huge Nirvana fan and I'll admit kurt at times is rather hard to understand however I am sure that the average Nirvana listener did not try to find deep meaning behind the lyrics. As a songwriter myself I try to understand the meaning and sometimes the lyrics don't make sense to me. However, they all bring across some sort of feeling. I still do agree with the claim though that the (average)nirvana fan did not understand the deeper meaning behidn the lyrics
I think alot of people don't get what Cobain's lyrics are about, and some also have trouble understanding them. I also think that the song is making fun of people who like the way the songs sound and enjoy them without understanding the darker meaning behind some of the lyrics. I think most people get the meaning of this song in particular if they listen to it at all, because this song is pretty strait forward, but most other songs remain a mystery to most people. Of course, if you aren't the type to pay attension to the lyrics to figure them out, you also may not be the type to listen to or absord the lyrics at all.
This may or may not be related to the above discussion, but the article seems to imply that the "In Bloom" lyrics are a criticism of some Nirvana fans which seems very unlikely given the time at which the lyrics where written (quote from the main Nirvana article : "In bloom (...) had been in the band's repertoire for years"): how many fans did Nirvana have before Nevermind was released ? I also fail to see how the fact that they later gained some fans that were also into "arena rock" is relevant, since, again, at the time the song was written I don't think any "arena rock kind of person" might have ever heard of the band. The explanation that sees In bloom as a take on some rock fans in general seems much more plausible to me. I do agree that it is very ironic that they later went on having fans that are exactly like those Cobain made fun of in the In Bloom lyrics :) Mwarf 20:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not native english-speaking.
and I do have problems understanding the words and especially the meaning of the lyrics. It is obvious that kurt cobain often changed words in several concerts.
For me is in Bloom even more about living in a Bloom and just beside about 'the lucky poor guy'. this theme I see even more in smells like teen spirit...
whatever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.136.82.70 (talk) 21:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
. . . And now this entire debate is solved by citing a source that explains the origins of the song's lyrics. Citing sources is fun! WesleyDodds (talk) 05:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
--me--
It's a bit of a waste of time trying to decipher the meanings of most of these songs. Cobain himself admitted that most of them were not about anything and were not based on a particular theme. He wrote the lyrics by putting together jumbled pieces of poetry he had. This is clear when you look at the lyrics to most of the songs because they are CLEARLY not related to each other. I think only a couple of songs on Nevermind had a theme all the way through, with relevant lyrics, like Polly and Something in the Way. Bleach and In Utero are a better place to try to pick out meanings because he wrote "concept songs" on those albums, and again, there is a quote of him talking about this.
The start of this article says that In Bloom deals with fans not "getting" their music and lyrics. In reality though, it's only the chorus which covers this. The rest of the song is about reproduction, and in fact, on one of the very first live performances of this song (pre-Grohl), Cobain introduced the song and said, "Oh this is a new song. It's about reproduction".
I personally would suggest to anyone interested in Nirvana, to not try to look at other people's interpretations of these songs. Some of the songs had no clear meanings at all, some had very numerous, jumbled up concepts so seeing a one sentence description of the song's meaning on Wikipedia is not going to be very accurate. Others are best for you to decipher the meaning for yourself. Look at the lyrics and listen to the way he sings them, read more about Cobain's character, and then you might find that some of the songs were very sarcastic and you might come up with a very different interpretation of the same song than someone else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.93.44 (talk) 00:55, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Have to apologise for putting incorrect lyrics in the article. I've been listening to this song for years and honestly thought he was singing "don't know what it means", but now I listen to it more closely it is definitely "knows not...." Obvious really, since these words are on the inner sleeve of the album. MFlet1 (talk) 22:06, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
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And leave me a note when done please... cheers, giggy (:O) 04:40, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers, giggy (:O) 09:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
from listening to it for about 20 minutes straight, im pretty sure he alternates, never mind what it says on the sleeve. first he says 'knows not what it means' then he says 'dont know what it means' Kas0809 (talk) 22:27, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
So Garr states that the In Bloom single was only released in the United Kingdom. This is clearly incrorrect. If you check the website www.sliver.it [1] Go to the section "Official Releases and Related Promos" then go to the singles section and click on In Bloom you will find a list of countries where the single was manufactured let alone released - for example those manufactured in the Netherlands would have been released in shops in Sweden. Anyway take a look at the website. mjgm84 (talk) 07:57, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
It means : blind doom. Afterwards, you will be hungry. And when it starts at an early age, you will suddenly become sleepy, as if you always have a 'fog in your head'. If you had a tonsil operation or something at that age and also have a little scar at the head, you then can believe that your "brain cut was OK". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.143.91.6 (talk) 02:20, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
The article goes into a decent amount of detail about the different versions of the video, but there's some information missing. In the "dresses" version, Kurt isn't lip-syncing "In Bloom". I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it was the infamous hidden track "Endless, Nameless" that was playing when these scenes were filmed, but I haven't been able to find any confirming info with Google. - 70.77.106.11 (talk) 22:17, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
I don't see how it can be claimed that Anthony said the song was about Dylan Carlson when it was NOT him who said that in the AMA on Reddit. It's a different user who claimed that. I'd remove that claim myself, because it's just some random person's opinion, but I just figured it would get undone. Clamum (talk) 01:55, 23 September 2020 (UTC)