Nirvana - About A Girl

About A Girl by Nirvana, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“About A Girl” is Nirvana’s third song on their 1989 debut album, Bleach.
It is also the first song on the posthumous MTV Unplugged in New York album from which it was a single in 1994.

Nirvana - About A Girl Lyrics

I need an easy friend
I do with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do what you have a clue

Ill take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I cant see you every night free
I do

Im standing in your light
I do hope you have the time
I do pick up number two
I do keep a date with you

[repeat chorus]

[repeat first verse and chorus]

I cant see you every night free
I do, I do, I do

Nirvana - About A Girl Review and Song Info

Dating back to at least 1987, “About A Girl” is often considered to be Kurt Cobain’s first great pop song.
It is also perhaps the closest he ever came to writing a traditional love song, except for “Drain You”.
According to the 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, “About A Girl” was written after Cobain spent an entire afternoon listening to Meet the Beatles! repeatedly. At the time, Cobain was trying to conceal his pop songwriting instincts, and he was reluctant to include the song on Bleach for fear of alienating the band’s then-exclusively grunge fanbase.
According to Chad Channing, Nirvana’s drummer around the time of Bleach, 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.”
The girl in question 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.
Strangely, 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 Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana.

“About a Girl” from the album MTV Unplugged in New York

Released October 24, 1994 (1994-10-24)
Format CD
Recorded November 18, 1993 (1993-11-18)
Genre Grunge
Length 3:37
Label DGC
Producer Nirvana and Scott Litt

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