The song I Don't Blame You, from 2003's You Are Free, has been taken as a rejection of fans' demands, specifically the lines: "They never owned it/ And you never owed it to them anyway." Online message boards have been filled with speculation over who it's about — Marshall herself or some other fame-troubled singer?
"I've never told anybody this," she says, "but that is about Kurt Cobain. It's about him blowing his head off."
It is about Kurt Cobain.
The song I Don't Blame You, from 2003's You Are Free, has been taken as a rejection of fans' demands, specifically the lines: "They never owned it/ And you never owed it to them anyway." Online message boards have been filled with speculation over who it's about — Marshall herself or some other fame-troubled singer?
"I've never told anybody this," she says, "but that is about Kurt Cobain. It's about him blowing his head off."
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