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Nirvana began playing “Rape Me” at the 1992 VMAs just to scare MTV 

MTV had said that they could play any song they wanted, but strongly suggested they play “Smells like Teen Spirit.” They were going to refuse to play but hours before they changed their mind because they thought MTV would boycott other artists on their label. 

The set on playing their latests single, “Lithium” for the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. He walked on stage and started playing “Rape Me” instead, but switched the “Lithium” at the last second. He said he did it “just to give MTV a little heart palpitation.” MTV almost cut them off from playing at all after that.

According to Kurt Cobain, the song was conceived as an affirming anti-rape song. Despite the song starting “rape me, rape me,” it’s supposed to be taken as ‘rape me, go ahead, rape me, beat me. You’ll never kill me. I’ll survive this and I’m gonna f**ing rape you one of these days and you won’t even know it.’ 

Nevertheless, the song was still very controversial and the title even got changed to “waif me” in stores like Wal-Mart and K-mart. 

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