{"id":807015,"date":"2020-05-01T12:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=992927"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:19:41","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-bully-covers-nirvanas-about-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-bully-covers-nirvanas-about-a-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Bully Covers Nirvana\u2019s \u2018About a Girl\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bully.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bully\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bully\" data-tag=\"bully\">Bully<\/a> and its frontwoman, Alicia Bognanno, have been getting Kurt Cobain comparisons since their 2015 debut, <em>Feels Like.<\/em> (It doesn\u2019t hurt that she studied at the feet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/how-bullys-alicia-bognanno-went-from-studio-geek-to-alt-rock-screamer-50865\/\">Nirvana producer Steve Albini<\/a>.) So hearing the Nashville band cover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nirvana\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nirvana\" data-tag=\"nirvana\">Nirvana<\/a> is almost&nbsp;<em>too&nbsp;<\/em>obvious \u2014 but, good God, is it glorious.<\/p>\n<p>Their spin on 1989\u2019s \u201cAbout a Girl\u201d strikes a perfect balance of raw and melodic, without ever sounding like the output of a cover band. Bognanno\u2019s home-recorded production and instrumentation definitely capture the original\u2019s energy: The guitars come in grunge-heavy before her voice slumps onto the scene, voice tearing on the high notes.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s not just a skilled copy of a classic. She mixes in some experimental guitar squeals on the instrumental and a truly trippy solo that keeps the sound from going thoroughly Nineties. Plus, Bognanno differentiates herself from your average karaoke crooner with her stellar delivery. When she wails, \u201cI\u2019ll take advantage while\/You hang me out to dry\/But I can\u2019t see you every night\/Free\u201d you almost forget that she was a kid when Cobain ripped through the track in 1993 for MTV\u2019s <em>Unplugged<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do\u201d becomes a chanted mantra at the end of the song, before it ends abruptly, futuristic time-warp complete.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bully-nirvana-about-a-girl-992927\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bully and its frontwoman, Alicia Bognanno, have been getting Kurt Cobain comparisons since their 2015 debut, Feels Like. (It doesn\u2019t hurt that she studied at the feet of Nirvana producer Steve Albini.) So hearing the Nashville band cover Nirvana is almost&nbsp;too&nbsp;obvious \u2014 but, good God, is it glorious. Their spin on 1989\u2019s \u201cAbout a Girl\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 08:59:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}