Music Video Analysis - Nirvana 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.
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A perfect example of how an amazing song can be butchered by major overplay. It's still an amazing song, but if you want some good Nirvana music, just sit back and listen to the whole Unplugged Album, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? and All Apologies are simply mesmerizing.
Music video, promotional film for popular music, especially a rock song.Music videos began to be widely broadcast on television in the early 1980s. Like the commercials they essentially are, music videos may qualify as the quintessential postmodern art form: hybrid, parasitic, appropriative, often compromised by commerce or undermined by aesthetic pretension, ideally compact, and assimilable.
It’s over 20 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells like Teen Spirit” debuted on MTV’s 120 Minutes and, for better or worse, inaugurated the grunge era. The video arrived as a shock and a thrill to a generation too young to remember punk and sick of the steady stream of cheesy corporate dance music and hair metal that characterized the late-80s.
For Nirvana he dealt with the music video Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991). However, there is a great resemblance between Zombie and another Nirvana’s music video, Heart Shaped Box, shot a year earlier by the Dutch Anton Corbijn.
The opening lyrics of “Smells Like Nirvana,” Yankovic’s 1992 version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” are as close to a mission statement as he has: “What is this song all.
Pop star Miley Cyrus' version of the hit Nirvana track Smells Like Teen Spirit has been named the worst cover ever in a new magazine poll. music Updated: Aug 25, 2011 15:09 IST.