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| name = About a Girl | cover = nirvana_about_a_girl.png | alt = | type = single | artist = Nirvana | album = MTV Unplugged in New York | B-side = "Something in the Way" (live) | released = {{Start date|1994|10|24}} | format = CD | recorded = {{Start date|1993|11|18}} | studio = | venue = | genre =
| length = 3:37 | label = DGC | writer = Kurt Cobain | producer = Nirvana and Scott Litt | prev_title = Pennyroyal Tea | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = The Man Who Sold the World | next_year = 1995 | misc = {{Extra track listing | album = MTV Unplugged in New York | type = live | tracks = {{MTV Unplugged in New York tracks}} }}{{Audio sample | type = single | file = About a Girl Unplugged.ogg }}{{External music video|{{Youtube|AhcttcXcRYY|"About a Girl"}} }} }}{{Infobox song | name = About a Girl | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = Nirvana | album = Bleach | released = June 15, 1989 | format = | recorded = 1988–1989 | studio = | venue = | genre = Alternative rock, grunge | length = 2:48 | label = Sub Pop | writer = Kurt Cobain | producer = Jack Endino | tracks = {{Bleach tracks}} }} "About a Girl" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It is the third song on their debut album, Bleach, released in June 1989. The song became best-known from its acoustic performance during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert in November 1993. This version was released as a single to promote the posthumous album MTV Unplugged in New York in October 1994, and reached number one on the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 22 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart. BackgroundDating back to 1988, "About a Girl" was reportedly written after Cobain spent an entire afternoon listening to Meet The Beatles!, the 1964 second American release by the Beatles.[1] The song was recorded in December 1988 by Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington, and appeared on Nirvana's debut album, Bleach, in June 1989. It was debuted live at a dorm party at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in February 1989. The recording stands out as the most melodic moment on the band's debut studio album Bleach.[2] According to Cobain, he had been attempting to conceal his pop songwriting at this time, and was reluctant to include the song on Bleach for fear of alienating the band's then-largely grunge fan base. In a 1993 Rolling Stone interview with David Fricke, he explained: "Even to put 'About a Girl' on Bleach was a risk. I was heavily into pop, I really liked R.E.M., and I was into all kinds of old ‘60s stuff. But there was a lot of pressure within that social scene, the underground — like the kind of thing you get in high school. And to put a jangly R.E.M. type of pop song on a grunge record, in that scene, was risky." [2] However, Endino was excited about the song, and even saw it as a potential single.[3] In a 1997 interview with Gillian G. Garr for Goldmine, he recalled Cobain's initial trepidation about including the song on Bleach. "I think Kurt felt nervous about putting 'About a Girl' on there, but he was very insistent on it. He said, 'I've got a song that's totally different from the others, Jack, you've gotta just humour me here, because we're gonna do this real pop tune.' The question was raised at some point, gee, I wonder if Sub Pop's going to like this, and we decided, 'Who cares?' Sub Pop said nothing. In fact, I think they liked it a lot."[4] In 2004, Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana's 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind, cited "About a Girl" as the first hint that there was more to Nirvana than grunge. "Everyone talks about Kurt's love affair with... the whole punk scene, but he was also a huge Beatles fan, and the more time we spent together the more obvious their influence on his songwriting became," Vig told the NME.[5] RecordingAccording to Chad Channing, Nirvana's Bleach-era drummer, Cobain didn't have a title for the song when he first brought it into the studio. When asked what it was about, Cobain replied, "It's about a girl." [6] On October 26, 1989, a version was recorded by Ted de Bono at Maida Vale Studios in London, England, during Nirvana's first BBC Peel Session. The full session was first broadcast on November 22, 1989.[7] Another version was recorded on November 1, 1989 at Villa 65 in Hilversum, the Netherlands for the VPRO radio show, Nozems-a-Gogo. The studio version of "About a Girl" was re-released on the band's first "best of" compilation, Nirvana, in October 2002. The MTV Unplugged version was re-released on a second hits compilation, Icon, in August 2010. Composition"About a Girl" is a alternative rock song that runs for a duration of two minutes and forty-eight seconds.[8] According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by BMG Rights Management, it is written in the time signature of common time, with a moderately fast rock tempo of 130 beats per minute.[9] "About a Girl" is composed in the key of E minor, while Kurt Cobain's vocal range spans one octave and six notes, from the low-note of B4 to the high-note of A5.[10] The song song primarily alternates between the open chords of Em and G in the verses and follows a chord progression of C{{music|sharp}}5–G{{music|sharp}}5–F{{music|sharp}}5–C{{music|sharp}}5–G{{music|sharp}}5–F{{music|sharp}}5–E5–A5–C5 during the refrain.[11] During the verses, Cobain repeats the same two chords as Kris Novoselic's bass line continuously ascends while a vocal harmony and tambourines appear in the background. The song's chorus features slight key modulation, where chords land just a slightly away from the place expected.[2] "About a Girl" has an aching, wistful melody which Cobain sings over simple chord progressions. His electric guitar playing grows rawer and noisier over the course of the track.[12] The lyrical content is built on simple, romantic sentiments laced with subtle associations and double meanings.[12] Cobain's lyrics illustrate a dramatic contrast between ideal romance and a dysfunctional reality and retain an effacing humor that conflict with the narrator's neediness and cynicism. During the verses, each of his lines begin with the phrase "I do" prior to imparting a description of commitment. At the chorus, he tersely relays the man's willingness to accept humiliation and betrayal from his partner so long as his needs are satisfied.[13] The girl referred to in the song was Tracy Marander, Cobain's then-girlfriend, with whom he lived at the time. Apparently, Marander had asked Cobain why he had never written a song for her, and Cobain responded with "About a Girl." The lyrics addresses the couple's fractured relationship, caused by Cobain's refusal to get a job, or to share cleaning duties at their apartment, which housed many of his pets. During arguments on the subject, Cobain would occasionally threaten to move into his car, at which point Marander would usually relent.[14] Cobain never told Marander that he had written "About a Girl" for her. In the 1998 Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt and Courtney, Marander revealed that she only found out after reading Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana biography, The Story of Nirvana. Reception"About a Girl" has frequently been cited as early evidence of Cobain's talent as a pop songwriter. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that the song "illustrated signs of [Cobain's] considerable songcraft."[15] Evan Rytlewskia of Pitchfork called it "a glimpse at the melodic impulses that would make [Cobain] one of the defining rock musicians of the ’90s."[16] According to Will Bryant of Pitchfork, it was "curious, based on the clean guitars and tinny cymbals that dominate ["About a Girl"], how Nirvana ever came to be identified with grunge, the genuinely dirty and moody sound more readily associated with contemporaries Mudhoney, Soundgarden and Tad than the punk-metal hybrid Nirvana favored."[17] The NME described it as "Kurt's first true masterpiece," which "showed Nirvana's soft underbelly could be just as arresting as their ear-splitting thrashes."[18] In 2004, the NME ranked "About a Girl" second on their list of the "20 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever."[19] The same year, Q ranked it second on their list of the "10 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever."[20] In 2015, it was placed at number eight on Rolling Stone's ranking of 102 Nirvana songs.[21] It was ranked at number 112 on Pitchfork's 2015 list of "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s," with Raymond Cummings calling it a "sharp, perceptive, well-constructed, and almost Beatles-esque" song "that demonstrated a potential beyond grunge's ghetto."[22] "About a Girl" is a BMI award-winning song.[23] MTV Unplugged versionFeaturing Pat Smear on second guitar, the MTV Unplugged version was released as a single in October 1994, to promote the album MTV Unplugged in New York, released the following month. It was the only commercial single released from the album, and featured the Unplugged version of "Something in the Way" as the b-side. Cobain opened the song by saying, "This is off our first record. Most people don't own it." John Harris from New Musical Express wrote, "The musical backdrop suggests The Beatles in 1964, at their lovelorn best: minor-key introspection gives way to regular traces of lightened-up calm, only to regain the upper hand within bars. ... For that reason, encapsulated in the fact that it rides on a divinely simple verse/ chorus/ verse undertow, it may be the most beautiful song here."[24] Track listing
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In popular cultureThe song inspired the title of the 1998 novel About a Boy, by British author, Nick Hornby.[44] The studio version appears as downloadable content in the Rock Band video game. Personnel
References
Notes1. ^{{citation |date=1994 |title=Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana |authorlink=Michael Azerrad |first=Michael |last=Azerrad}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.livenirvana.com/interviews/9310df/index.html |title=LiveNIRVANA.com Interview Archive | 1993 | October 25, 1993 - Chicago, IL, US |publisher=Live Nirvana |date= |accessdate=2011-09-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120904024740/http://www.livenirvana.com/interviews/9310df/index.html |archivedate=September 4, 2012 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://microsites.nme.com/php/nirvana/top20/index.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206034701/http://microsites.nme.com/php/nirvana/top20/index.php|title=Countdown: 20 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever|work=NME|date=March 26, 2004|archivedate=February 6, 2005|accessdate=August 6, 2012}} 4. ^{{cite book |last1=True |first1=Everett |title=Nirvana: The Biography |date= |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=9780306815546 |page=116 |accessdate=11 December 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://microsites.nme.com/php/nirvana/top20/index.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206034701/http://microsites.nme.com/php/nirvana/top20/index.php|title=Countdown: 20 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever|work=NME|date=March 26, 2004|archivedate=February 6, 2005|accessdate=August 6, 2012}} 6. ^{{cite web|author=Krist Novoselic |url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-10-28/music/bleach-krist-novoselic-interviews-chad-channing/ |title=Bleach: Krist Novoselic Interviews Chad Channing - Page 1 - Music - Seattle |publisher=Seattle Weekly |date=2009-10-28 |accessdate=2011-09-24}} 7. ^{{cite book|title=Nirvana FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Important Band of the 1990s|last=Luerssen|first=John D.|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|date=2014|isbn=978-1-61713-588-0}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0083044|title=Nirvana 'About a Girl' Sheet Music in E Minor - Download & Print|last=Cobain|first=Kurt|work=Musicnotes.com|publisher=BMG Rights Management|access-date=March 9, 2019}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0083044|title=Nirvana 'About a Girl' Sheet Music in E Minor - Download & Print|last=Cobain|first=Kurt|work=Musicnotes.com|publisher=BMG Rights Management|access-date=March 9, 2019}} 10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0083044|title=Nirvana 'About a Girl' Sheet Music in E Minor - Download & Print|last=Cobain|first=Kurt|work=Musicnotes.com|publisher=BMG Rights Management|access-date=March 9, 2019}} 11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0083044|title=Nirvana 'About a Girl' Sheet Music in E Minor - 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