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Anonymous asked: what do you think of courtney love?

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“We think In Utero will get three types of reactions. For the...”

– Dave Grohl, OOR magazine, September 4th 1993

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Melody Maker - August 21th, 1993

Interviewer: In Utero is riddled with guilt.
Kurt: Really? Where?
Interviewer: Well All Apologies for one. Unless you’re being heavily ironic.
Kurt: That’s a very, very sarcastic song.
Interviewer: What about the line, "I do not want what I have got", from Radio-Friendly Unit Shifter?
Kurt: I just thought that had a nice ring to it. Also, it’s kind of a pisstake on Sinead O’Connor. I dunno, I just wish things weren’t token so literally. Really, after all the shit I’ve had to read about me – and especially my wife – in the last year and a haIf, I should’ve put out a really hateful record. I should’ve used every chance I had to attack people. I wanted to, I feel that strongly about it, but there’s just no point. I’m already known as a cry-baby whiner.
Interviewer: It’s true that In Utero isn’t as lyrically direct or brutal as you threatened it would be. Was that deliberate?
Kurt: Yeah. I did take a few shots at the media and some of the other things that’ve happened to us. But, for the most part, I made sure not to complain. I really tried not to.
Interviewer: But on Heart-Shaped Box the chorus goes "Hey/Wait/I’ve got a new complaint".
Kurt: That’s just me giving an example of how I’m perceived. People don’t realise that I’ll say something and it’ll be quoted in an article, then it’ll be taken out and used in another article in a different place, and then again, and then again. I’ll only have said it once but it looks like I’m complaining all the time. People also don’t realise that in all the interviews before ‘Nevermind’ come out, and in the first few months afterwards, we had different perspectives on what our band was. We just went into it very blindly. We didn’t realise how many interviews we were doing, just knew that we were exhausted every night after talking for hours on end. So suddenly, there’s a stack of magazines, all with us on the cover, all with incredibly similar articles, the same fucking story over and over, because we were always asked the some questions, over and over for four months. So I guess it’s understandable that people thought we were totally pissed off about our audience, that we hated everything, corporations, everything.