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About a Girl

original song written and composed by Kurt Cobain
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q642170
About a Girl
Nirvana · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

About a Girl is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,653 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Kurt Cobain[3]
  • Genre: grunge[4]
  • Follows: Pennyroyal Tea[5]
  • Performer: Nirvana[6]
  • Record label: Geffen Records[7], Sub Pop[8]
  • Part of: Bleach[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10]
  • Distribution format: compact disc[11]
  • Publication date: 1989[12]
  • Lyricist: Kurt Cobain[13]
  • Title: About a Girl[14]
  • Different from: About a Girl[15]
  • Form of creative work: song[16]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f4e29ec5-4806-3c2b-bc84-c802552e8f35[18]

Why It Matters

About a Girl has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Bleach compact disc Geffen Records Kurt Cobain Sub Pop

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). About a Girl. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/about-a-girl
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_about-a-girl_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{About a Girl}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/about-a-girl}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-10}}
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  1. 23w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Nirvana, Nirvana
    Part of → Bleach
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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