By giving in this kind of album cover, the band Nirvana clearly drew the public’s attention towards alternative rock. A sad fact is that Kurt committed suicide and got addicted to cocaine after the success of this album because he did not intend for this type of music to get popular. The dollar could be Kurt’s own thoughts about money, since the baby was only watching for the dollar not actually grabbing it. The baby can be Kurt himself, doing the things he want(music in this case), and earning the money without actually trying to. By looking at Kurt’s background information, I think that people could easily catch out what Kurt wanted to explain using the cover. Kurt’s only way for standing out and relieving stress was by music.
Kurt lived a gloomy life in the past going through adversity and hard life due to their poor family and his aggressive father. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana’s guitarist and vocal played a big role in this cover too. Overall the album cover clearly showed what the band was passionate about, portraying Nirvana’s beliefs inside music throughout the picture. What I thought for this was Nirvana’s spirit only staring at the dollar not trying to grab for it. The dollar stands money and fame which the baby is staring at. The pool symbolizing the ocean, shows the band’s musical theory, alternative rock. The baby stands for the band Nirvana, a new born band in this era. What I felt was that the three figures in the picture was symbolic standing for different things. The cover of “Nevermind” shows a baby inside a pool staring at a dollar. The album cover clearly showed what they have meant. It was a new style of rock that had lyrics of anti social actions and resisted against the mainstream. Also, Nirvana was the band that refused the popular style of rock recreating their own style of rock called alternative rock.
They represented the new era trying to end the dull rock music that had been dragged from the 80s.
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Artists no longer thought about how to make the audience joyful, but to go in higher pitches and to talk about the same boring love story. It was not “true music”anymore, but more like commercial music showing familiar, obvious verses and actions. However, some people started to express that the rock music was not as usual. Pop metal and glam metal were the usual music that were popular at that time, and heavy metal was at its peak.
As described before, the 1980s was a dull period for rock. The cover might look funny for the majority of people, but by starting to think about the cultural background in those ages, it would be easier to understand the whole story. The kid was the son of the album photographer’s friend and the picture was simply created by throwing up a baby into the swimming pool. Before starting my analysis about this cover, a fun fact about this cover is that the child, Spencer Elden, received 200 dollars for modeling this picture.
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