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hip-hop fun reviews come as you are by nirvana what's up guys so since my last nirvana video
where i reacted to lithium a track which i which i loved and first listen um i've done
a little bit more reading into into the band and into kurt's life so i found out about his uh his
difficult childhood years and his teen years along with his addiction issues specifically to heroin
and hopefully all of that can provide some more context for the band's music
and uh some of his writing which i've also got the lyrics up to help me with
in terms of the single art once again like lithium it's super interesting if i'm going off the r
and the title come as you are um i'm thinking this is a track perhaps about
identity issues um with the sperm cells surrounded by these kind of weird jellyfish looking creatures
my kind of initial take on it is that you have regular people of society and you have kind of
outcasts which are represented by the jellyfish but that is just a single art i could be wrong
about all of this the music could change my mind um so let's get into the music
wow that's a super unique sounding uh guitar um
the vibe that i kind of get from these opening few notes is like we're under water almost um
like when you're underneath the water and you're peering through
the surface where the lights coming down that's kind of the vibe that's been set so far
take your time hurry up just as you're don't kurt's voice is so unique he's able to convey
pain not necessarily through the lyrics but the way he delivers the notes he delivers it with so
much emotion man it's uh it's a super unique way of singing he can he can say and deliver
so much meaning without any words it's what's being said in between the words to it's quite
quite a chilling uh note he's hitting there love those uh little extra guitars in the background
oh great drum filled there um if we just go back to the lyrics um of the first verse there so kind
of my takeaway from this first section of the song i've heard is that this seems to be from the
perspective of like someone consoling kurt who's like um come as you are as you were as i want you
to be like uh i'll take you in regardless of all your flaws and all your weirdness some of these uh
feelings i feel like kurt would have had as a kid and maybe this is like a projection of what he
would have liked to have heard as a kid what he never received from his family um basically the
idea of like uh real love and acceptance you know as a friend as a friend as an old enemy
you know i'll take you in for whatever you are no matter what super interesting theme so far
and those extra guitars in the background the vibe that this band can set man it's unreal
speaking into that verse if we get into the lyrics again i think
i feel like the theme of acceptance is like uh has repeated itself again but even stronger this time
come doused in mud soaked in bleach like i'll take you at your very worst like i don't care um
and again to speak on his delivery man kurt sings from his gut you know from like it's so visceral
you get so much emotion out of these notes like i feel like if you were to read this
off like certain bits of this you might even think oh this is a sweet song as an old memory
memory memory as a trend as a friend you know it it could perhaps be received as a positive but
when you hear him singing this thing it's clear like the memories that he's talking about aren't
like him getting ice cream with his dad like this is some painful [ __ ] he's singing about
and it's just all done between the words you know the way he's singing it it's amazing super unique
wow okay knowing the way he
uh ultimately died via a shotgun blast those are some chilling lyrics man wow very foreboding
one thing i've noticed about nirvana is that their music isn't necessarily
the most complex in the world like even this guitar solo i'm not all the way through it but
what i feel like the way they structure their songs is they're going for maximum emotion like
complexity is not necessarily what they're trying to do their music is like supposed
to be felt not over analyzed you know it's like um yeah it's uh it's a punch in the gut
man it's uh it's not to be it's not to be like over thought up here like you feel it in here
uh
that last delivery of that line where he said uh no i don't have a gun it's interesting he chose
not to put that in the forefront of the track you know it was kind of like said away from the
mic you know like the way i take that is like it's like a creeping thought that's in his mind all the
time like no i don't have a gun he's almost trying to convince himself like no no i don't have a
gun i'm not gonna do that to myself really really foreboding lyrics there man no i don't have a gun
no i don't have a gun no i don't have a gun no i don't
i love how they built up to this moment you know a giant crescendo
they've done it again um so i spoke in the beginning right at the start of the song
about um the idea of being under water and like looking up at the surface if i'm going off
like what i felt through the duration of the track perhaps this is like what kurt is trying to say
heroin feels like you know like you're underneath the wall looking through the surface at reality
and the more and more i kind of went through the song the more i feel as if
the track is being delivered from the perspective of the drug like it's it's the heroine talking to
kurt like come as you are as you were as i want you to be i'll accept you i'll be that thing that
nothing else was for you which is a a brilliant concept and like for them to like string it all
together with the music all building up to it the vibe that was set the atmosphere and his writing
this band is like able to pull off this magic trick every time i've only heard two of their
songs so far and they've both been tense so like i'm really getting an understanding of why
people were so like in love with this band and like how he sort of became like a generational
figure for people um yeah speaking on lithium just again i didn't think that i could have
liked to first listen more and be more intrigued by by a band but i think i like this song more man
this is uh this isn't as loud as lithium lithium was a straight punch to the face this is a much
more of a of a subtle track with its themes are um more kind of between the lines but
just as emotional and as weighty as the last one love this track another 10 for me