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Genius Annotation

“Doll Parts” began as a poem that Love wrote about Kurt Cobain, in 1991, before they started dating. As such, it is mainly about her insecurity that someone as wonderful to her as him could be interested in her. When the song was recorded, she and Cobain were married. By the time the album was released, he was dead – and the result is this video, with a faceless child representing Cobain, as the song takes on a completely new meaning.

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What did Hole say about "Doll Parts"?
Genius Answer

The song “Doll Parts“ is a homage I wrote in 20 minutes in a girl named Joyce’s bathroom in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I had to write most of the lyrics on my arm in sharpie as I ran out of paper. People were pounding on the door as I wrote it. It was played for the first time about an hour later , at the Virgin megastore in Boston .
It was about a boy, whose band had just left town, who I’d been sleeping with, who I heard was sleeping with 2 other girls, it was my way of saying “You’re a fucking idiot if you don’t choose ME, and here is all the desire and fury and love that I feel for you.“
Good songs don’t always come in 20 minutes but the force was strong and that one did.
Anyway I married that guy.

– Courtney Love via Instagram

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