While he had compiled other original songs for a new album, he feared the lack of a good parody song would doom the album to failure and held off from releasing anything until an idea presented itself. Yankovic would later believe that Jackson's refusal was, retrospectively, a blessing he felt that "Snack All Night" was not one of his better works. He had composed a parody of Jackson's " Black or White", titled "Snack All Night", but Jackson said he was uncomfortable with the parody, given that the original song was intended to be a political statement. To revitalize his career, he considered creating a parody of a Michael Jackson song, which had proven successful twice before with " Eat It" and " Fat". He started work on a new studio album around 1990. Yankovic called that "the beginning of three years where it was kind of hard for me to recover". Prior to writing "Smells Like Nirvana", Yankovic's music career had suffered from the poor financial performance of his 1989 feature film, UHF and the associated soundtrack. The song's video was nominated for a 1992 MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video. The song is one of Yankovic's most successful singles and was his second top 40 hit in the United States, reaching number 35 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.S. Cobain considered the parody as a sign that they had "made it" as a band. "Smells Like Nirvana" was met with critical praise and helped to re-energize Yankovic's career. To promote the single, Yankovic created an associated video for the song that parodied and closely mirrored the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, even going so far as to hire several of the same actors and use the same set. "Smells Like Nirvana", however, was relatively straightforward in its musical composition. Usually, the group were forced to record several overdubs. Recording the song was a change for Yankovic and his band. After being unable to contact Nirvana conventionally, Yankovic called Cobain while the band was on the set of Saturday Night Live, where Cobain quickly gave permission to record the parody. The song was written to ridicule the fact that many people could hardly understand Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's lyrics in the original song. "Smells Like Nirvana" was written during a three-year career low for Yankovic after the financial failure of his film UHF, but captured the quickly-rising popularity of grunge and Nirvana's success. A parody of Nirvana's song " Smells Like Teen Spirit", it was released as the lead single from Yankovic's Off the Deep End album in April 1992. " Smells Like Nirvana" is a song parody written and performed by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. The crowd was also treated to a heartfelt acoustic set midway through the program before the band returned to its deafening electric set to end the performance.Īnd the band played on, running off Nirvana hit after hit as well as deep track after deep track for almost two hours.Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, "Weird Al" Yankovic The Cobain lookalike, blonde locks, crouching guitar playing antics and ripping chord style aside, had an eerie vocal resemblance to Cobain as well, belting out screams and tender lyrics that kept the crowd rocking and mesmerized. With songs like “Drain You,” “Comes as you are”, and “Rape Me” being performed in Cobain’s signature guitar shredding riffs along with heavy bass and solid drumming, it didn’t take long for an impromptu mosh pit to form in the orchestra seating area in front of the stage.Īnd when they played “Smells like Teen Spirit”, the mosh pit bobbed up and down like pogo sticks everyone with their hands in the air with the “rock on” sign. ROCHESTER – Suffice it to say that the energy level at the Rochester Opera House smelled like grunge spirit on Friday where a couple of hundred fans of the famed late rocker Kurt Cobain were treated to an inspired performance by the tribute band Nirvanish.
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