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Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle

1993Released
4:10

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Frances Farmer was an actress who starred in several popular films in the '30s and '40s, but developed a reputation for being very difficult on the set. In 1942 she was arrested for drunk driving and made the mistake of going to Mexico, which violated her parole. When she returned, she was put in a mental institution where she reportedly underwent shock treatments and a lobotomy. She was released in 1950 and began a comeback in 1958, starring in the film The Party Crashers and getting her own TV show called Frances Farmer Presents. In 1970, Farmer died of cancer at age 56.

In this song it appears Kurt Cobain is likening himself to Frances Farmer. While Frances was almost infamous for her difficulty to work with and her battle with her movie studio, which forced her into bad roles. She demanded much and later all she got for it was a series of mental collapses and a failed battle with alcoholism. Kurt related Farmer's battles against her contracts with corporate Hollywood with his difficulty with his record label, which he felt was holding him back and stifling his art, making him release poppy stuff he was never satisfied with. Farmer was born in Seattle, but Kurt had a lot more to do with the city than she did, which leads me to believe this is not a musical biography... not Kurt's style.

Cobain and Courtney Love have a daughter named Frances Bean, but she was named after Frances McKee, of The Vaselines, who were a Scottish punk band from the early '90s.

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle.
A♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
117BPM

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℗ 2013 Geffen Records

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