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"About a Girl" is a song by American rock band, Nirvana. It is the third song on the group's debut album, ''Bleach'' (1989). It is also the first song on the posthumous ''MTV Unplugged in New York'' album from which it was a single in 1994. ==History== "About a Girl" was written after Kurt 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 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." However, ''Bleach'' producer Jack Endino was excited about the song, and even saw it as a potential single. Years later, Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana's 1991 breakthrough album ''Nevermind'', would cite "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'' in 2004. "About a Girl" was recorded for ''Bleach'' in December 1988 by Endino in Seattle, Washington. It remained one of the few songs from ''Bleach'' which Nirvana continued to perform live until Cobain's death in April 1994. A live acoustic rendition was recorded during the band's ''MTV Unplugged'' set on November 18, 1993 at Sony Music Studios in New York City. It was released on the band's posthumous ''MTV Unplugged in New York'' album in 1994 and was the only commercial single from that album. The ''Bleach'' version was re-released on the band's 2002 "best-of" compilation album, ''Nirvana''. The ''Unplugged'' version was re-released on the band's second hits compilation album, ''Icon'' in 2010. The ''Unplugged'' version also appears as a playable song in the video game ''Guitar Hero World Tour'', and the ''Bleach'' version appears as downloadable content for the ''Rock Band'' video game. "About a Girl" is also a BMI award winning song.〔(Nirvana songs listed by BMI ). bmi.com Retrieved on December 26, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「About a Girl (Nirvana song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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