Polly

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Polly is a song about a 14 year old girl that was raped and tortured by a man named Gerald Friend. As the girl was a juvenile her name was never released and Nirvana had made up the name Polly. Later on two guys raped another girl while playing this song. I tried to fine corroberating evidence about the 2nd girl but I wasn't able to find anything. I only found the following quotes that are said to be in the liner notes to Incesticide: "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly.' I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience." I don't know where I was in the 90's but I don't remember hearing this about the song. I do remember it was the only song I didn't like on the album. I have attached the link to the video and then to a link about the song. I found some other disturbing things but I think there is enough of that out there already. I think that it shows how screwed up people are. I guess Nirvana did benefits to help rape victims, so I am sure the intent was not to be a catalyst for anything. It is hard because many people heard this song and that was that. I am not a big believer in blaming the music, obviously Gerald Friend didn't need a song for inspiration. The whole thing is kind of depressing.





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