I find it pretty significant that this was the last song Kurt Cobain played live before cancelling his future tours and taking his life a month later.
To me, it's about lack of willpower and the incapacity to change.
I remember one time when I was trying to "better myself" in college, I downloaded one of those "improve your concentration," or "care less what others think of you" or "let go of your past" hypnosis tapes. There was always an introduction at the beginning where the hypnotherapist talked about how we were hardwired to perpetually act on the same habits and how difficult it was to change that on a conscious level.
That may have been bullshit to sell the tapes, and the tapes themselves probably didn't work. But sometimes I take a moment and look at things, and really do realize that there aren't many things I can do to make long term changes on a grander scale.
When I'm depressed, this becomes a truth instead of a possibility, and one that's very difficult to escape from. Something about the sinister and crawling tones of this song makes me feel that the songwriter knew what that felt like.
@mkay17 - Great take, as we train out thought processes, and strengthen the synapse of those "responders" with out knowing, we can reinforce they way we think (or react for a better term). That old philosophy to let the anger out, really winds up nurturing it... so to 'change the way you think' is a very difficult task, but, it CAN be done, with a lot of repetition, and yeah... "work". So yes, your take on Living in Stereo, with that (rhythmic vibration of tremolo) is exactly that... Shut it up, shut it down, shut it off... etc. "She" is...
@mkay17 - Great take, as we train out thought processes, and strengthen the synapse of those "responders" with out knowing, we can reinforce they way we think (or react for a better term). That old philosophy to let the anger out, really winds up nurturing it... so to 'change the way you think' is a very difficult task, but, it CAN be done, with a lot of repetition, and yeah... "work". So yes, your take on Living in Stereo, with that (rhythmic vibration of tremolo) is exactly that... Shut it up, shut it down, shut it off... etc. "She" is most likely that Drama Queen, who blows everything up out of proportion, and is annoying laying that 'crap' onto him, does not help his situation (or hers).. do 'they' care? I dare say...No.
I find it pretty significant that this was the last song Kurt Cobain played live before cancelling his future tours and taking his life a month later.
To me, it's about lack of willpower and the incapacity to change.
I remember one time when I was trying to "better myself" in college, I downloaded one of those "improve your concentration," or "care less what others think of you" or "let go of your past" hypnosis tapes. There was always an introduction at the beginning where the hypnotherapist talked about how we were hardwired to perpetually act on the same habits and how difficult it was to change that on a conscious level.
That may have been bullshit to sell the tapes, and the tapes themselves probably didn't work. But sometimes I take a moment and look at things, and really do realize that there aren't many things I can do to make long term changes on a grander scale.
When I'm depressed, this becomes a truth instead of a possibility, and one that's very difficult to escape from. Something about the sinister and crawling tones of this song makes me feel that the songwriter knew what that felt like.
@mkay17 - Great take, as we train out thought processes, and strengthen the synapse of those "responders" with out knowing, we can reinforce they way we think (or react for a better term). That old philosophy to let the anger out, really winds up nurturing it... so to 'change the way you think' is a very difficult task, but, it CAN be done, with a lot of repetition, and yeah... "work". So yes, your take on Living in Stereo, with that (rhythmic vibration of tremolo) is exactly that... Shut it up, shut it down, shut it off... etc. "She" is...
@mkay17 - Great take, as we train out thought processes, and strengthen the synapse of those "responders" with out knowing, we can reinforce they way we think (or react for a better term). That old philosophy to let the anger out, really winds up nurturing it... so to 'change the way you think' is a very difficult task, but, it CAN be done, with a lot of repetition, and yeah... "work". So yes, your take on Living in Stereo, with that (rhythmic vibration of tremolo) is exactly that... Shut it up, shut it down, shut it off... etc. "She" is most likely that Drama Queen, who blows everything up out of proportion, and is annoying laying that 'crap' onto him, does not help his situation (or hers).. do 'they' care? I dare say...No.