Talk:Rape Me

message: adding the lyrics with specific passages highlighted might be useful here. if we can get away with that? Alkivar 03:56, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: What are the lyrics, anyway? I don't want to do a Google search, 'cause . . . you know . . . BBQ ASL 06:37, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Everyking 07:07, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: lyricwiki.org is a good source. Adding lyrics is a copyright violation for the most part. The only way it would be acceptable I think is if a source makes specific reference to the meaning of a line etc. -- Reaper  X 19:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for lyrics

message: In what way was this song not released as a single?  I seem to have a CD-single here which is All Apologies/Rape Me.  82.3.32.71 08:15, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: B-side

message: He said it was a song of poetic justice, in which a man rapes a woman, is sent to jail, and ends up being raped there himself
Is it just me, or does it sound like Cobain was BSing the interviewer? (Assuming he really did say that.) I've examined the lyrics myself, and there is no way you could possibly infer that the song is about rape as poetic justice. (In contrast, Sublime's song "Date Rape" is pretty transparent in having precisely that meaning.) I'm not sure what the song does mean, but the lyrics never suggest that the setting is a prison. The lyrics don't really give any context whatsoever to the "rape" that's supposedly taking place. In fact, it sounds like what the narrator is describing isn't really rape at all but rather sadomasochism. Look at the title, for goodness sake: it's called "Rape me," not "Don't rape me"! We need not assume that the lyrics are even meant to be taken literally. You could easily read the song as an expression of nihilistic depression (a common theme in Cobain's songs). The "rape" could be a metaphor for drugs, the media, or just about anything. marbeh raglaim 01:21, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a feeling that a 'lot' of what Kobain said in interviews should be taken with a grain of salt. It's understandable that he didn't like the way people try to pull apart the meaning of lyrics that are probably written with a lot of emotional weight and not a lot of intellectual forethought (such is the nature of art). A lot of what he says about his lyrics seems to contradict other things he says to different interviewers. I don't think he cared what people thought of his lyrics. 142.58.43.167 (talk) 19:27, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Cobain's explanation for the song

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:AllApologiesNew.jpg

message: 10 minutes, the length apparently, unless I'm crazy the song is not ten minutes long but its been there forever so I'm not sure why that's there. TostitosAreGross (talk) 23:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length? 

message: Proposal for the "meanings" section: At the time it was recorded, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain lost the guidance for their daughter Frances Bean Cobain and again in 2003. So, the song title could also refer to the people who took their daughter away from him. See article for verification. Saemikneu (talk) 02:24, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song meaning 

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