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Where were you when...
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
November 11, 2008

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No, not when the world stopped turning. Where were you when you first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit?" That's the question popping up all over those wacky Internets thanks to an article by MTV on the infamous Nirvana baby.

Spencer Elden was just an infant when his parents dropped him into a pool where an awaiting photographer snapped one of the most recognized album covers of all time: Nirvana's "Nevermind." And in the News-To-Make-You-Feel-Ridiculously-Old category, little Spencer is now a 17-year-old high school student (Someone quick! Grab my prune juice and Metamucil!).

Spencer recently recreated that iconic photo by jumping into the pool again as his 17-year-old self (although this time he is wearing swim trunks, in case you were wondering...you little pervert you).

Spencer is just a regular kid (although he has some rather creepy pick-up lines thanks to his famous past as a baby) but an interesting side effect of the story is it's causing all of us old Gen X and Y-ers to reminisce about how wicked awesome life was back then in the early 90's.

I myself will never forget riding in my friend's older sister's car and hearing those first guitar riffs of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I remember instantly falling in love and passionately arguing with my friends over what the lyrics actually were.

"I'm alive though?" or "A mosquito?" 

A few times, it almost came to blows, people. (Note: I was wrong approximately 97 percent of the time).

And I also remember the chaos at school when we heard lead singer Kurt Cobain died (a death that had all of us crying into our flannel shirts and wiping snot on our wide-leg, torn up jeans).

So my question to you is, where were you when you discovered Nirvana? Or the band that defined your youth?