more articulate than any Soundgarden lyric, but too often, Cobain just comes off sounding petulant." Criticism "Rape Me" has occasionally received criticism for its intentionally blunt handling of sensitive subject matter. John Mulvey of the NME wrote that "while you can't doubt Cobain's personal political correctness, there's a distinct moral dubiousness about welding the words 'RAPE ME!' to In Uteros best sing-along chorus." Pitchfork's Will Bryant wrote that the song, despite its victim-empowering intent, "comes off as a shallow and transparent attempt to court controversy." In 2019, Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her father, George W. Bush, prior to becoming U.S. President, broke one of her Nirvana CDs due to the lyrics of "a really bad song" implied to be "Rape Me." Legacy In 1999, "Rape Me" was voted number 90 in Kerrang!s 100 Greatest Rock Tracks Ever!. In 2015, Rolling Stone placed it at number 31 on their ranking of 102 Nirvana songs, with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd calling it "the closest to an actual Bikini Kill song that [Cobain] would ever write, using the lyrics as a woman-empowering taunt to show would-be rapists that their victims' spirits would not be tamped." In 2019, The Guardian ranked it at number 17 on their list of 'Nirvana's 20 greatest songs'. "Rape Me" was re-released on both of Nirvana's greatest hits albums, Nirvana (2002) and Icon (2010). Music video According to a 1993 Chicago Sun-Times article by Jim DeRogatis, Cobain was told that MTV were "squeamish" about a potential "Rape Me" music video, which played a role in the band's decision to release "Heart-Shaped Box" as In Utero's lead single instead. As DeRogatis wrote, "Rape Me" was "the catchiest [song] on the album; it isn't hard to imagine it becoming a hit - and a Madonna-size scandal." Ultimately no music video was made for the song, although two treatments were published posthumously in Cobain's Journals in 2002. They included scenes set in a prison, footage of flowers and seahorses as well as a man being prepared for a gynecological exam. A 23-page "Rape Me" music video script, listing Jerry Plansker as director, sold on eBay in January 2003 for $620. In 1999, the Saturday Night Live version of "Rape Me" began being aired as a music video on MTV2 to promote the album, Saturday Night Live: The Musical Performances, Volume 2, on which it appeared as the opening track. Video of the