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Smells Like a Bad Song The song Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

Smells Like a Bad Song The song Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana in my opinion is a horrible song This song successful at a time were grunge was still very new and not widely popularized Punk rock artists were leading a rebellion against the rock of the 70s which led music to transcend but also led to bad trends in music Later in the 1990s Nirvana kept leading the rebellion in hopes of pushing rock out of the rut it was in Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana is a horrible song because it tried elevating the use of no melody in music consists of the same droopy melody with no driving element in the song repeated and the song bleeds bad vibes through the lyrics Kurt Cobain sings Smells Like Teen Spirit is by far Nirvana's most popular song and blew up in the middle of the pivot between classic rock and punk rock It also paved the way for a subgenre of punk rock called grunge a subgenre where Nirvana's music was mainly categorized under Nirvana showed to the masses that punk rock can be mainstream and in many ways proved that new trends can overtake classic forms of music Although this song brought grunge to the radio and was big for Nirvana I believe the song itself is overrated I respect that Nirvana tried to push the boundaries of music and I also acknowledge that experimentation has to happen in order for music to evolve but they were elevating music with no melody which led to a bad trend in music at the time Musicians found comfort in simplified and stripped down production accompanied with repetitive verses that weren't very special or unique at all Although I also personally believe that Nirvana can be very melodic and complex in their music that is not the case in this song 



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