Turning pain into art, or very close to that effect. Of random memories that can't hurt much anymore. "Sliver" by Nirvana brings past memories of neglect or feeling unwanted by parents that leave one kid at some undesired place with undesired people (in this case the grandma). The anarchic music video shows another kind of abadonment, one that is equal parts of chaos, confusion and fun.
A ridiculously messy small teenage room is the set for Kurt Cobain to act like crazy as he and band perform the track. The line "Grandma take me home" said in a repeated sucession between the verses telling the kid's story about things happening when his parents left him to attend a concert, everything hard to forget. But it's the moments with Kurt carrying and dancing with a stuffed jeans pants that gives the impression of a mannequim cut in half; the monkey toy moving; or the cameo of Cobain's daughter Frances dancing between shots, are all iconic memories of the 1990's. The kind of clip that can't be described with effect, it has to be seen. 8/10.
