10 Singers Who HATE Their Own Songs

And here's another track the artist grew disdain for after it became popular.

Kurt Cobain conceived Teen Spirit as a song that sounded like The Pixies' music. "We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard." He would later call the song a Pixies rip-off.

In an interview he gave to Rolling Stone in 1994 - mere months before his death - he said that the song had become "almost an embarrassment" to play.

Everyone has focused on that song so much. The reason it gets a big reaction is people have seen it on MTV a million times. It’s been pounded into their brains. But I think there are so many other songs that I’ve written that are as good, if not better, than that song, like “Drain You.” That’s definitely as good as "Teen Spirit". I love the lyrics, and I never get tired of playing it. Maybe if it was as big as “Teen Spirit,” I wouldn’t like it as much.

But I can barely, especially on a bad night like tonight, get through “Teen Spirit.” I literally want to throw my guitar down and walk away. I can’t pretend to have a good time playing it.

Almost 30 years later, the song is still wildly overplayed, so his feelings towards it would likely have grown more ill.