• 'About a Girl' was written after Cobain spent an entire afternoon listening to Meet The Beatles! repeatedly. (Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad)
• Kurt Cobain said in a interview (Rolling Stone, 1993) 'To put a jangly, R.E.M. type of pop song on a grunge record, in that scene, was risky,'
• The song is about a broken relationship and Kurt Cobains flaws. The song is about his girlfriend at the time Tracy Marander.
• The single from the MTV Unplugged in New York album topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart on December 10th, 1994.