yo what's going on guys welcome to the channel my name is saeed i am doing
another song reaction today this is generally where i break down the lyrics and music for a
song and offer up my interpretations for what i'm hearing i am continuing in the series of
nirvana reactions that i've been doing and i'm super super excited to get into that
but before we do i just wanted to highlight my favorite comment from one of my previous videos
this comment was left on my video reaction to a day in the life by the beatles which actually had
a little bit of a copyright issue i was dealing with but it's now been properly released and i've
been getting some great feedback on that so i'd highly recommend for you to go check that out
so this comment was left by a guy called justin m he says he enjoys the analysis and he also sort of
gives the real life inspirations for lenin and paul's verses he also says in a light-hearted
way that uh maybe i'm reading a little bit too deep into the lyrics and i do agree with justin
a lot of what i say i don't actually think is what the songwriter may have intended for the
lyrics to mean but i think music is always up to your interpretation and i would feel as if
i'm sort of cheating the viewer if i just jumped on here and kind of bopped along to the music and
said oh good song at the end of the day it's probably more interesting to the viewer if i
were to offer up my feelings and whatever sort of weird ideas come to my mind as i'm
hearing the music i also enjoy sort of making connections between different other art forms
and the lyrics and music that i'm hearing and so that's sort of my intention behind these videos
regardless great comment by justin okay so now to get into the actual song reaction that i'm
doing today i'm doing in bloom by nirvana this is of the album nevermind and this will be the
fourth track in the series of nirvana reactions i've been doing if i were to rank the songs that
i've heard so far i would probably put come as you are as numbers as number one i just
love the depth and the lyricism that i felt in that song and also the atmosphere that they set
with probably sentence apprentice being second and lithium coming in third that's not taking
anything away from lithium i love that song in terms of this actual song and what i'm expecting
i know it's between the in used road track and the never mind songs that i've heard that in utro was
a lot more raw and intense and a little bit less easily accessible in terms of the sound that were
on display so i'm expecting a much more sort of um simpler track a much more hard-hitting song
and in terms of my initial expectations for the lyrics with the track being called in
bloom and the single art being this sort of flower blossoming i'm thinking that this is maybe a song
about um kurt's childhood or just uh people's youth in general with you know within bloom
the obvious connection there but this is just the initial take this could all change with the
with the music that i hear so let's get into the music okay here we go
huge guitars there goes those drum fills again his um girls drum fields are
not ever that complex but again this band sort of always emphasizes emotion
and intensity over complexity which i love and to speak on the initial sort of vibe
of this uh song so far i don't know how they managed to make a three piece ban sounds so [ __ ]
huge there's noises that are coming out of this guitar i'm pretty sure it's just cur on
the guitar so whatever like mix or like the sound engineer is doing or the way that kurt is playing
it's adding so much noise out of this one instrument it's mental and just the
loud sort of um overbearing almost uh soundscape that they can create from three instruments
a bass a bass guitar a regular guitar and a drum it's not it's i've only heard this kind of
intensity from a few bands and one of the only ones that can pull it off so incredible start
changes
okay um so let's get into the first verse a little bit so to kind of go along with
uh justin's comment from uh the previous video i think uh this verse here is not necessarily like
uh supposed to mean anything like i feel like especially this verse is one of those um sort
of random bits of poetry that curtis put together that i've heard him speak about in his interviews
um the general sort of um vibe that i get from it is a sort of a darker um melancholic sort of uh
atmosphere he's set here which is uh quite often what kurt does before the explosion of the chorus
so which i'm i'm expecting is about to happen but um interesting um little two bars he's got
here spring is here again reproductive glands so spring is usually you know where the birth of
um new um plant life essentially to go along with this reproductive theme that he puts in the
next thing so nice little couplet that he's put together here and kind of following along with the
idea of in bloom um interesting little verse there so it sounds like it's about to get crazy let's go
is
those machine gun feels man i love it is
that is how you write a [ __ ] chorus incredible incredible so like it seems like
this loud quiet dynamic is like the signature of this band and especially on never mind it seems
like it's their real focal point that the songs are structured to have this explosion into the
chorus and i'm all for it man i always say that my favorite types of songs are ones that have
varying moods even within the track and nirvana our experts are pulling this off man
um to read into the lyrics just a little bit it seems like he's kind of poking fun at
people who listen to their songs and kind of take it for the surface level uh kind
of vibe that they get off of it so he says and he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun
he likes he's the one who likes all our pretty songs um kind of interesting to put
on what is you know one of their most catchy choruses that they've ever put together um
it's kind of ironic and like um it's very like fourth wall breaking right there but can you blame
them for liking the pretty songs i mean listen to the melody on this thing it's uh it's amazing
is
okay so we have more sort of nature um themed lyrics going on through nature is a [ __ ] tender
age and bloom uh i think this is my favorite verse so far of the two i feel like these uh
sort of lyrics flow very poetically um again not too much i could say to read into it's kind of
setting the atmosphere mood of um of childhood and being young again um really cool really cool verse
i spoke on maybe i think it was lithium about the way that this uh band is able to
create this kind of syncopation with the drums the guitar the bass line and the vocal and make
it all kind of this rhythmic um vibration you know that they they um can create on a song i can
imagine their live shows being absolutely crazy a lot of people have sort of put in the
comments that i should be reacting to their live performances and i can imagine why like this song
amongst the crowd of people like i just imagine like a uh undulating mass you know and this
melody that kurt is putting over this incredibly loud epic instrumentation i
don't know how he finds it because i feel like a lot of songwriters will be struggling to find
how to make an impact with their voice amongst this huge soundscape but kurt finds a way to
not only add to it but to be the focal point um it's really amazing man really amazing
maybe my favorite chorus of all four tracks i've heard so far here we go guitar solo
you know what's interesting that i found out i was watching one of kurt's interviews i think it
was where he said that he kind of despises guitar solos and he thinks of them as corny which totally
makes sense for the era he grew up in um just coming off that kind of hair metal phase where
everyone had that like uh cheesy style of making songs with this super long guitar solos at like
three quarters of the way in and like nirvana's music was like uh injection of like truth and
uh differentiation between what was currently out and so i could totally see that he's like kind of
almost making fun of guitar solos a lot of the time and it kind of sounds like this
that with this solo here um again very breaking of the fourth wall which seems to be like a
theme in this uh in this whole track you know kind of being ironic and poking fun at things
it almost sounds out of tune but works here we
got pretty songs
so i spoke earlier on about like great sound engineering one thing i love about
kurt is that he always seems to back up his vocals like he always does double takes
and he finds a way of making the second take really complement whatever he's singing on the
foreground i don't know how he does it but he does it on almost every song he backs up his own vocal
and um i don't know why more singers don't choose to do this maybe it's just done really great with
kurt and it wouldn't suit other singers but it always just adds that much more emphasis
to whatever he's singing and when you've got such a killer melody that he's got going on it
totally adds to the vibe of the song great choice there and again once again great sound engineering
that's how you end the [ __ ] song
wow okay so i think i would say i still think calm as you are
is my favorite of the four i've heard so far again i just love the depth of the song
however i think this this track and uh sent this apprentice might take second place
um with this song maybe just edging it a little bit again these are all just first reactions but
i feel as if you need to be sort of in the right mood to hear sentence apprentice whereas i can see
myself playing this whatever moment and any time of the day like i can't really put on sentence
apprentice and like be hoovering you know what i mean it's a bit intense but uh that's kind of my
initial rankings for now as far as the actual song man brilliant brilliant um piece of music where
everything is put together the chorus is just an absolute knockout man with a great great melody
um a lot more of a simpler song in terms of the depth in in the lyrics but um i felt like most of
it was just trying to add to the atmosphere of the song brilliant track brilliant track absolutely
loved it big thumbs up yo what's good guys this is the end of the video um i just wanted to
take a moment to say if you enjoyed the video to hit me with a like possibly a subscribe hit
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mystical youtube algorithm but um in terms of uh what i'll be doing next i will be switching up the
content on the channel just a little bit i'll be putting in some uh sort of different videos out
there however i will be continuing music reaction so perhaps guide me on what i should be listening
to next i've got a couple ideas i might just try out smells like teenage spirit next but if
there's something in particular that you guys want to hear from me even non-nirvana tracks uh
let me know in the comments below i always like going in there and sort of responding
and gaining new information from these comments so other than that have a blessed day and peace out