The contrast of us giving you nothing and your vision is actually going to be better than if we're jumping around acting like crazy rock people and you're doing these flash jump-cut edits and crazy lighting. “It just happened to be a guy with a great idea who happened to believe in our notion that we're reluctant video stars who are going to give you nothing. “I love the video because it worked,” Cornell later admitted to Artist Direct. The clip, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, juxtaposed twisted, demonic images of suburbia with shots of the band performing. Meanwhile, its accompanying video received heavy rotation on MTV. The song became Soundgarden’s biggest hit, spending a total of seven weeks at No. Some people thought it was about Kurt Cobain dying.” Beinhorn remembered the response: “It hit a very strong emotional chord. When “Black Hole Sun” was released as a single on May 13, many uninformed fans misinterpreted the lyrics. His death sent shock waves throughout the music world, especially within the Seattle music scene.
Less than a month later, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain took his own life. Superunknown was released on March 8, 1994. Listen to a Demo of Soundgarden's 'Black Hole Sun' It was one of the most incredible pieces of music I’d ever heard. “I felt like I’d been hit by a bus," he said while remembering the first time he heard "Black Hole Sun." "There’s usually a point with music where your attention span wanders, but this was like my head was in a vice.
Perhaps most enthusiastic was producer Michael Beinhorn. "I equated it with Stevie Wonder, that level of songwriting. “I knew immediately it was a heavy-hitting song," he told Uncut. If it became huge, would people expect to play it everywhere we go? There was hesitation.”īassist Ben Shepherd was slightly more excited by the track. We didn’t know what that would mean for us. “We understood it had very strong commercial potential. “It wasn’t the heavy, guitar-orientated song we were used to – it had more of a pop construction,” guitarist Kim Thayil later told Uncut. The singer gave his mock-up to the other members of the band their response was positive, but also cautious. Sometimes a song is pushing the boundaries and you may not feel it belongs to the personality of the music that comes under the banner of that band.” “I thought they might like it, but not think of it as a Soundgarden song," he said. The song’s structure deviated from previous Soundgarden tracks. Because of this, Cornell was concerned about how his bandmates would respond to it. Watch Soundgarden Perform 'Black Hole Sun' Live Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar – a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title."Ĭornell later estimated he wrote ‘Black Hole Sun’ in about 15 minutes.
The next day I brought it into the real world, assigning a couple of key changes in the verse to make the melodies more interesting. "I got home and whistled it into a Dictaphone. "I spent a lot of time spinning those melodies in my head so I wouldn't forget them," he remembered while speaking to Uncut. During a long car ride home, he sang and hummed ideas to himself.
With the title phrase resonating in his head, Cornell worked up a melody. It was a thought-provoking phrase, and it became that song.” “So I was corrected, but after that I thought, ‘Well, he didn’t say it, but I heard it,’ and it created this image in my brain, and I thought it would be an amazing song title. “I had misheard a news anchor, and I thought he said ‘black hole sun,’ but he said something else," Cornell recalled during a 2014 conversation with Entertainment Weekly. Whether by destiny or just dumb luck, the song’s inspiration came to singer Chris Cornell by accident.
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