The music video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by NIRVANA has had over two billion views on YouTube. In June 2009, the clip was posted to the Google-owned video site, and in 2019, it received one billion views.
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” served as the lead single for NIRVANA’s breakthrough single “Nevermind” (Geffen/UMe), which sold over 30 million copies worldwide and peaked at number one. The band was seen in the accompanying video performing background music for a very enthusiastic high school cheerleading team. The single was first played on the radio on August 27, 1991. The video was shot in a sound stage in Culver City, California, on August 17, 1991.
Samuel Bayer, the director of the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video, had a personality that was incompatible with the NIRVANA band members’. Kurt Cobain, the frontman of NIRVANA, stated in the band’s history “Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana” that “He’s got a little Napoleon complex.” “He just had a lot of energy and was a rockstar. It was unbelievable to me. It was unbelievable to me that we genuinely agreed to that.
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Kurt detested Sam Bayer, according to Courtney Love, who wed Cobain in a private ceremony on February 24, 1992, as reported by New York Magazine in 2011. Kurt wanted black students, obese cheerleaders, and a message about how bad high school was, but Sam included attractive girls in the video for “Teen Spirit.” The absurd thing is that it continued to function.
It would turn out that “Nevermind” was much more than just one of the most popular and significant albums ever made. Over the past three decades and into future generations, it has been a solitary source of inspiration for both musicians and fans, bringing rock ‘n’ roll’s purity and passion back to the top of the charts. Over the years, it has been attributed to the demise of hair metal.
The author of Cobain’s biography, “Heavier Than Heaven,” Charles R. Cross, said to Today.com on the enormous success of “Nevermind”: “This album is amazing. At the time of its publication, it would have been a success. However, the time was ideal for a blockbuster act like NIRVANA to appear. The world was crying out for meaningful rock music at the time, which coincided with the end of hair metal’s death knell. Additionally, it came at the perfect moment for a new generation seeking a voice. It so happened that when rock needed a revolution, everything came together at the perfect time.
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