The daughter of George W. Bush revealed that the former president once destroyed a CD she was listening to because of inappropriate lyrics.
Jenna Bush Hager, a co-host on “Today with Hoda & Jenna,” told a story Wednesday about an encounter she had with her father over a Nirvana CD she had purchased.
The 37-year-old said that her father was “always so good about letting us listen to the music we wanted to,” but said a song off of one of the grunge band’s albums set him off and made him incredibly angry. She wouldn’t name the song or album but said that it was one of the first CDs she had ever purchased.
“There was a really bad song on it, which I’ll tell you during commercial, but my dad heard it,” she told co-host Carson Daly. “And my dad heard me playing it on my little Discman or whatever CD player.”
Despite the ambiguity, Daly seemed to recognize which song she was referring to.
“Future leader of the free world listening to you listen to that. That’s terrifying,” Daly said.
“He broke the CD over his leg,” Bush Hager said.
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“He never was mad like that,” she added. “But this particular song really encourages, you know, I mean to hear your little daughter listen to it, you know what I’m thinking of.”
Nirvana was a popular grunge rock band that was active from the late 1980s until frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994. The band drew controversy for some of the lyrics to its songs, including for songs like “Rape Me” from its 1993 “In Utero” album.
The former first daughter also revealed she was a fan of the punk rock band Green Day, noting that her father would let her play the band’s album “Dookie” when they would drive around in the family’s minivan.
