Smells like teen spirit- music video- Nirvana

Smells like teen spirit is Nirvanas most popular song by far and has a great video to go with it, the video is the band, Dave Grohl, Krist Noveselic and Kurt Cobain playing a concert to kids in a sports hall in a school, sort of in a party setting the video and the song are equally as famous, the song is one of the most instantly recognisable songs of all time but wasnt expected to be as famous as it became.
The song was released onto the bands second and best selling Album and one of the greatest Albums of all time Nevermind.



The song was released on the 10th of September 1991, it was recorded in may 1991.The unexpected Success of the song reached the top of the charts in 1992 and is often argued as the moment alternative rock became mainstream music, it was the bands biggest hit reaching number 6 on the billboard top 100 and reached high on all music charts all around the world.

In an interview with rolling stone in 1994 Kurt Cobain revealed that when he wrote the song he was trying to sound like a band he really liked called pixies, he said he was trying to rip them off and write the ultimate pop song, he arguably wasnt far off this goal he said he connected with the band in a way that he thought he should have been in them or at least a cover band.

The song came out on the radio on August 27th 1991 but released two weeks later however the song did not initially reach the charts and it only sold well in regions of the USA whilst the band already had an established fan base. So with the band realising the song wasnt doing to well they thought come as you are would be the single to reach a mainstream audience however modern rock and campus radio noticed the song was actually good and placed it on heavy rotation.



The music video was the director Samuel Bayer's first video, he thought the band had chosen him because his test reel was so poor, the band thought his production would be punk and not corporate, the band hated everything corporate, the video as I said earlier is based on a school concert which ends in a big riot, the inspiration for the video was from a film called over the edge aswell as another called rock n roll high school it was filmed at a sound stage at culver city the band are playing a pep rally the video would keep switching to a janitor in a blue jump suit dancing with a brush, the video ends with everyone destroying the bands equipment. The budget for the video was between 30,000 and 50,000 dollars. Critics said it looks like the greatest gig you could imagine. In 2000 the Guinness world book of records announced that smells like teen spirit was the most played video on MTV Europe. MTV themselves said the video has changed the look of MTV forever, rolling stone placed the video as number 2 for their 100 best music videos of all time in 2000, VH1 placed smells like teen spirit as number 18 for their 2000s 100 greatest Rock N roll moments on TV, the song has been parodied twice, so has the video. The video has over 555 million views on youtube as of June 2017.

Here are the lyrics: Load up on guns

Bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's overboard, self assured
Oh no I know, a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low [x3]
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an Albino
A mosquito, my libido, yeah

Hey, yay

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift, I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low [x3]
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an Albino
A mosquito, my libido, yeah

Hey, yay

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Hello, hello, hello, how low [x3]
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an Albino
A mosquito, my libido

A denial, A denial, A denial, A denial, A denial
A denial, A denial, A denial, A denial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg