Rape Me
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| Single by Nirvana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album In Utero | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A-side | "All Apologies" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Moist Vagina" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 6 December 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD, 7" single, 12" single, cassette | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | February 1993 at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Grunge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 2:49 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | DGC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Kurt Cobain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Steve Albini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Rape Me" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain. The song was released as the second single from Nirvana's third album In Utero in 1993, packaged as a double A-side along with "All Apologies". The single reached number 32 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Rape Me" was written by Kurt Cobain on an acoustic guitar around the time the band's second album, Nevermind, was being mixed in 1991. Nirvana first performed the song live that year, although Cobain had not yet written the bridge section, playing a guitar solo instead.
Nirvana had wanted to play "Rape Me" during its performance at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. While MTV initially told the band they could play any song they wanted, the network later insisted that the group play "Smells Like Teen Spirit" instead. Hours before the show, Nirvana refused to play. However, due to concerns that the network could boycott other artists on the group's label if the group refused to play the show, Nirvana ultimately settled on performing its then-latest single "Lithium". At the start of the performance, Cobain started playing and singing "Rape Me" instead; he said he did so "just to give [MTV] a little heart palpitation". Panicked, MTV was moments away from switching from the live performance to a commercial when the band stopped playing "Rape Me" and started playing "Lithium".
Nirvana first recorded "Rape Me" during two-day demo sessions with producer Jack Endino in Seattle, Washington in October 1992. Two takes of the song were recorded; the first was instrumental, while the second featured lead vocals by Cobain and backing vocals by drummer Dave Grohl. Cobain was holding his then-infant daughter Frances Bean Cobain in his lap when he recorded his vocals, and she can be heard crying on the demo.
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