However, Krist told me they did not mean to impugn the ideals of the song but were bitterly commenting on the abandonment of those ideals by the majority of baby boomers as they got older and more influential. The most complete answer Kurt gave in public about “Get Together” was in an interview in Brazil’s O Globo: “The song speaks of people who join together to be cool and try something new, the ideal contrast to the macho men I’m portraying in ‘Territorial Pissings.’ We didn’t want to be offensive to the guy who wrote it. The idea of being positive and causing change in society and the world
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