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Smack dab in the middle of Nirvana‘s second album, Nevermind, lies a song with a horrifying backstory. The three-minute composition, “Polly,” is sung from the perspective of a real-life rapist who abducted and tortured a 14-year-old girl in the Pacific Northwest in 1987. Why would a grunge band address toxic masculinity through music? Here’s what we know.
[Warning: This article discusses violent crimes, including kidnapping, torture, and sexual assault.]
The violent crime that inspired Nirvana’s ‘Polly’ In 1967, a fiend named Gerald Friend was convicted of kidnapping and viciously mistreating a girl. Read More...