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〕 | B-side = "Waffle King" | Format = CD single, 7", cassette, Video single | Recorded = January 27, 1992 at Santa Monica Sound Records, Santa Monica, California. | Genre = Comedy rock, alternative rock, grunge | Length = | Label = Scotti Brothers | Writer = Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, "Weird Al" Yankovic | Producer = "Weird Al" Yankovic | Last single = "Isle Thing" (1989) | This single = "Smells Like Nirvana" (1992) | Next single = "You Don't Love Me Anymore" (1992) | Misc = }} "Smells Like Nirvana" is a parody of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit", written and performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic; it was released both as a single and as part of Yankovic's ''Off the Deep End'' album in April 1992. "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 the grunge style and Nirvana's success. The song was written to poke fun at the fact that many people had a hard time understanding Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's lyrics in the original song. After being unable to contact Nirvana by conventional means, Yankovic called Cobain while the band was on the set of ''Saturday Night Live'', where Cobain quickly gave permission to record the parody. Recording the song was a change for Yankovic and his band. Usually, the group were forced to record several overdubs. However, "Smells Like Nirvana" was relatively straightforward in terms of the musical composition. To promote the single, Yankovic created an associated video for the song that parodied the "Smells like Teen Spirit" video. The parody video closely mirrored the original; Yankovic even went so far as to hire several of the same actors and use the same set. "Smells Like Nirvana" was met with critical praise and helped to re-energize Yankovic's career. Cobain considered the parody as a sign that they had "made it" as a band. The song is one of Yankovic's most successful singles, reaching number 35 on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the US Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song's video was nominated for a 1992 MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video. ==Background== 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. Yankovic called that "the beginning of three years where it was kind of hard for me to recover".〔 He started work on a new studio album around 1990.〔 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 had composed a parody of Jackson's "Black or White", entitled "Snack All Night", but Jackson said he was uncomfortable with the parody, given that the original song was intended to be a political statement. Yankovic would later believe that Jackson's refusal was, in the long run, a blessing; he felt that "Snack All Night" was not one of his better works.〔 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.〔 At that time, the band Nirvana started to become a name in the music scene, creating "big, seismic shifts in pop culture" according to Yankovic.〔 Yankovic felt that the band's 1991 album ''Nevermind'', which featured "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was "really great", but feared that at its release, the band was not popular enough to warrant a parody.〔 By early 1992, ''Nevermind'' had reached platinum certification and led the ''Billboard'' charts, which led Yankovic to start working on a parody.〔 Yankovic noted that much of the publicity around ''Nevermind'' dealt with the inability to comprehend the songs' lyrics—both in their phrasing and the manner in which they were sung by the lead vocalist Kurt Cobain; Yankovic decided to use this as the basis for his parody. Yankovic noted, "I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best".〔 Yankovic had initial difficulty getting permission for the parody, as his manager claimed he was unable to get through to the group numerous times.〔 When Yankovic learned that Nirvana would be performing on the January 11, 1992 show of ''Saturday Night Live'', he called his ''UHF'' co-star, Victoria Jackson, at the time a regular cast member of the show. Jackson got Cobain on the phone so that Yankovic could make his request. Cobain agreed, though initially he inquired if the song would be about food, a common theme in many of Yankovic's songs.〔 Yankovic explained that the song would be about Cobain's incomprehensible lyrics, to which Cobain replied, according to Yankovic, "Oh, sure, of course, that's funny".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smells Like Nirvana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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