Nirvana was an American alternative rock band known for their introduction of grunge music after their first album, Nevermind was released in 1991. Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and David Grohl formed the band in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987.  They were part of the post punk underground scene of Seattle, Washington. The band used extreme changes in their tempo and volume to express different emotions such as anger. Their hit song Smells Like Teen Spirit from the album Nevermind is what brought the band from underground into the mainstream. Their success had brought Kurt some controversy and was typecasted as a self destructive rock star, especially since he also advocated for women’s rights and gay rights publicly. Kurt Cobain tragically took his own life in

April of 1994.
     In 1993 on MTV Unplugged, Nirvana delivered a reinvented cover of Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World to a younger audience, bringing David Bowie and his music into the lives of a new generation. Bowie was quite shocked when he heard Kurt Cobain was a fan of his work and he praised Nirvana's cover of his song. Kurt Cobain was a very private person, but the meaning of the song The Man Who Sold the World could have been a message to the audience of how he was feeling in his personal life. The song tells the story of two individuals that are experiencing alienation and pressure from fame and success. They meet their former selves and find themselves full of regret.