Rape Me

Rape Me is a song by Nirvana that appears as the fourth track on their final album In Utero and was released as a double A-Side single with All Apologies. The single was the band's final single before Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994. The single reached number 32 on the UK singles chart but failed to chart in the U.S. as it was not released as a single there.
==Meaning==
The song is an anti-rape song, written in the point of view of the rape victim. The song's riff is Smells Like Teen Spirit played in reverse, as Cobain thought it would cause a song to "take on a new character".
==Controversy==
The song became controversial before it was even released as MTV threatened to ban both the band and every artist from DGC Records if they played the song at the 1992 MTV Music Awards, resulting in the band agreeing to play Lithium instead, although the band did cause MTV executives to panic as they played the opening riff of Rape Me before switching to the agreed upon song. In 1996, Wal-Mart threatened to band the In Utero album if the song was not renamed and if the band cover was not changed, resulting in the song being retitled "Waif Me" and a zoomed in image of the back cover being used instead.
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