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Song by American alternative rock band Hole

1995 unmarried by Hole

"Violet"
Violetcov.jpg

Cover fine art from vii" vinyl release
Single by Hole
from the album Live Through This
B-side
  • "Old Age"
  • "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"
  • "Whose Porn Yous Burn down (Black)"
Released February viii, 1995 (1995-02-08) (US)
  • July 1995 (1995-07) (UK)
Recorded October 1993 (1993-10)
Studio Triclops Sound Studios
(Marietta, Georgia, U.S.)
Genre
  • Alternative rock[1]
  • grunge[ii]
  • punk rock[1]
Length 3:25
Label DGC
Songwriter(due south)
  • Courtney Honey
  • Eric Erlandson
Producer(s)
  • Paul Q. Kolderie
  • Sean Slade
Pigsty singles chronology
"Circle One / Shutdown"
(1994) 		"Violet"
(1995) 		"Softer, Softest"
(1995)
Music video
"Violet" on YouTube

"Violet" is a song by American alternative rock band Hole, written by vocalist and guitarist Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson. The song was written in mid-1991, and was performed live between 1991 and 1992 during Pigsty's earlier tours, eventually appearing as the opening rails on the band's second studio album Live Through This (1994). The song was released as the group's seventh unmarried and the third from that album in early 1995.

The lyrics of "Violet" were inspired by Honey'due south tumultuous relationship with Corking Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan in 1990.[3] Several critics and scholars accept noted parallels in the lyrics betwixt Corgan as well as Love'south late husband, Kurt Cobain. The themes of sexual exploitation, violence, cocky-abasement, and resentment, have also been noted, and some critics have compared elements of the song to the works of Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin.

"Violet" peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 'south Modern Rock Tracks afterwards the album'due south release in 1994, and is considered one of Hole'due south most well-known and critically recognized songs.[4] It charted at number 116 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born list past Blender magazine in 2005.[5]

The cover artwork for the unmarried features a Victorian mourning portrait of a deceased young girl which was acquired from the historical athenaeum of Stanley Burns.[half dozen] A music video, released in 1995, features Love among numerous strippers performing in an early-20th century dance hall, contrasted with ballerinas and young girls dancing in an elegant theater.

Background and recording [edit]

Love began writing "Violet" in the fall of 1991, during the band'south Pretty on the Within tour; she stated that she partly wrote the song at Jabberjaw, a stone club in Los Angeles.[7] In a 1995 interview, she stated that she finished the song in the band's tour van outside St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Michigan during the band's sound check. As Dear recalled, "[It was] on Halloween... we were opening for the Laughing Hyenas, and there were twoscore people in that location. [I had heard] five songs from Nevermind, and I was and so jealous of those songs that I had to try to top them. I could non believe that somebody I knew, somebody from our secret, had written a batch of songs so fiercely keen."[8] The band played the song live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 1, 1991[9] during the ring'southward tour to promote their first album, Pretty on the Inside. Early versions of the song were played several times betwixt 1991 and 1992 at other live performances.

The first known studio version of "Violet" was recorded on November 19, 1991 at Maida Vale Studios[x] as part of Hole's first radio session with BBC DJ John Skin.[xi] In October 1993, the ring recorded the album version of the song as part of the Live Through This sessions at Triclops Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The recording from the 1991 Peel session was included on the band's 1995 EP Ask For It, along with "Doll Parts", which was recorded during the same studio visit.

On both Live Through This and the individual unmarried, the songwriting is credited collectively to Pigsty, however according to BMI'south website, "Violet" was written only by Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love.[12]

Limerick [edit]

The song is composed of a series of 3-note ability chords, and veers between "soft verses and harsher choruses."[xiii] The verses of the vocal feature a singular chord progression composed of the power chords (E5-C5-G5). The choruses of the vocal characteristic a iii-chord progression (E5-F5-G5), as well as a chord progression similar to that of the chorus (E5-C5-D5-A5). There are ii guitars featured in the vocal, with Love playing clean rhythm guitar and Erlandson playing pb guitar with heavy distortion.

"Violet" was reputedly written about The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, with whom Dear had had a relationship with prior to her relationship with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. On May 5, 1995, Love introduced the vocal on Afterwards... with Jools The netherlands as "a song about a wiggle, I hexed him and now he's losing his hair",[3] which is seen as a reference to Corgan's hair loss.[14] Every bit a issue of the reports that the song was written about Corgan, it was featured at No. ix on The Daily Fauna'southward "xiv Fiercest Breakup Songs" list in 2010.[14]

Variations of the song's lyrics, such as: "The sky turned violet / I want information technology once more / And trigger-happy more violent", figure in a poem titled "Above The Boy" that Dear wrote in 1991.[15]

Analysis [edit]

Bessie Smith in 1936

Janis Joplin performing circa 1967

Scholar Carol Siegel compared "Violet" to Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Center" as a "popular song styling of female sexuality at dissimilar points in white women's emancipation."[16] Commenting on the song'due south lyrical content, she writes that "Beloved's body becomes the battleground upon which she meets and defeats males who would possess her."[17] Siegel suggests that the song'south lyrics toy with the thought of offering ane's body for subjugation, merely that Dearest shifts the power dynamic "at the moment of her offer...  she reasserts her control, not different Bessie Smith challenging her listeners to deny that her body belongs to her, to destroy because it is she who chooses."[17] Furthermore, Siegel suggests that the song'southward championship itself alludes to the word "violate" as Beloved vocalizes it in her performance.[17]

Music critic Ronald Lankford echoes a similar sentiment, interpreting the song as being clearly written from the perspective of a adult female speaking to her former lover, likewise every bit "no one in detail,"[eighteen] and besides characterizes the vocal as a "mini-drama between lasting dearest and temporary fame."[nineteen] Other music scholars, such as Anwen Crawford, take drawn parallels between the song'southward lyrical references to amethyst and "little fish" to Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan, both of whom were born in February (the month whose birthstone is amethyst), and whose astrological signs are Pisces.[20]

Reception [edit]

"Violet" was the band's 3rd almost popular unmarried from Live Through This, behind "Doll Parts" and "Miss Earth", charting at number 29 in the Billboard's Modernistic Rock Tracks in April 1995,[21] and went on to become one of the band'south signature songs. Information technology was released every bit a single on February eight, 1995.[a]

The song was well-reviewed by critics. "Alive Through This is barely seconds old earlier Courtney takes 'Violet' by the horns and bellows, 'Go, have everything! Accept everything, I dare you to!' in a manner guaranteed to have anyone who has ever given her so much as a bearish glance watching their backs," noted Clark Collis in Select.[24] Rolling Stone said of information technology: "With its daydream whispers and startling gunshot-guitar chorus, "Violet" shakes, rattles and roars like a godless marriage of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way.""[25] The song was placed in a 2010 NME article titled Hole'south ten Finest Moments, where it was referred to as "the quintessential Hole runway" and a "titanic atmosphere tantrum and exhilarating rush of comfortless rage at full vent... "Go on, take everything, take everything I want yous to", she bellows, turning powerlessness into power over riffs that swing from sweet and melancholy to humid and volcanic on a dime."[4]

The song has been featured in several films, and in 2005 ranked at number 116 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since Yous Were Born list by Blender mag.[5]

Music video [edit]

The music video contrasts women dancing in an early-20th-century strip club with footage of ballerinas performing[26]

The promotional music video for "Violet" was filmed in late 1994 and was directed by Mark Seliger and Fred Woodward.[27] The video is filmed largely in sepia tones and features a 1920s-era strip gild with burlesque dancers, juxtaposed with footage of several young ballerinas and young girls dancing on a theatre stage.[26] Writer Barbara O'Dair summarized the video every bit consisting of "innocent girls in tutus juxtaposed with naughty, fleshy sex-club dancers."[27] Beloved pole dances in the music video in the menstruum mode, and is as well featured in a tutu on the ballet phase with the girls. These scenes are integrated with footage of the band performing the song.[26]

The video follows themes discussed in the song, particularly sexual exploitation of women.[17] According to Dear, the content of the video was inspired by "acid flashbacks" and "one-time film stock".[28] "I love old pornography," Love said, "But I wanted to at the same time, yous know... all of the [music] videos for years that have put stripping or one-half-naked women on a pedestal, I wanted to sort of prove the degrading feel that it is."[28] Siegel notes that the music video replays Love'south "well-known by as a stripper through performances that are more threatening than erotic."[17] An article in Spin described the aged footage in the video equally avant-garde.[29] Many of the scenes in the video aesthetically mimic early-20th century silent films and talkies, with faux-aged cinematography and lapses in audio and visual synchronization.[29]

The music video was the first video to feature newly recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur afterwards the death of Kristen Pfaff in June 1994. In a 1995 interview during the KROQ Weenie Roast, Auf der Maur commented on the music video'southward themes, citing "pornography versus ballet, strippers, and cute out-of-synch artwork".[30] According to drummer Patty Schemel, the dancers featured in the music video were actual strippers handpicked by Courtney Love from Jumbo'southward Clown Room, a Los Angeles trip the light fantastic toe bar where Love had worked in the 1980s.[30]

In 2021, Slant Mag named it the 25th greatest music video of all time.[31]

Track listing [edit]

All songs written by Courtney Beloved and Eric Erlandson, except where noted.

Credits and personnel [edit]

Charts [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Amazon's catalogue list for the CD single notes a release of February 8, 1995,[22] which is corroborated past the February 11, 1995 Billboard listing, which denotes "Violet" every bit a "new" single that week.[23]
  2. ^ a b "He Hit Me", "Whose Porno Yous Burn" and "Credit in the Straight World" were recorded live at MTV Unplugged in New York on February 14, 1995, Tempodrom in Berlin on Apr 22, 1995 and Hollywood Palladium on November ix, 1994, respectively.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995". Spin. Baronial vi, 2015. p. 5. Retrieved September eighteen, 2020.
  2. ^ Michael, Danaher (August four, 2014). "The 50 All-time Grunge Songs". Paste.
  3. ^ a b Love, Courtney (May 5, 1995). "Hole - "Violet"". Later... with Jools Holland . Season v. Episode 1.
  4. ^ a b Mackay, Emily (July 27, 2009). "Lived Through This – Pigsty's 10 Finest Moments". NME . Retrieved Baronial nineteen, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". Blender. 2005 – via Listal.
  6. ^ Lankford 2009, pp. 80–81.
  7. ^ Hopper, Jessica (April 14, 2014). "You Will Anguish Like I Ache: The Oral History of Hole'due south 'Live Through This'". Spin. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015.
  8. ^ Marks, Craig (February 1995). "Endless Beloved". Spin. Vol. 10, no. 11. p. fifty. ISSN 0886-3032.
  9. ^ "Holelive.com – The Ultimate Hole Trading Customs 5 three.0". Holelive.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  10. ^ Crawford 2014, p. 7.
  11. ^ "The Peel Sessions nineteen/11/1991 – Hole". Keeping It Peel. BBC Radio i. October 2005. Retrieved December xi, 2010.
  12. ^ "BMI Repertoire Search, BMI.com". BMI. Retrieved Apr 10, 2010.
  13. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 88.
  14. ^ a b ""Violet" by Courtney Love – The fourteen Fiercest Breakdown Songs". Comcast. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
  15. ^ Love 2006, p. 120.
  16. ^ Siegel 2000, p. 137.
  17. ^ a b c d eastward Siegel 2000, p. 138.
  18. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 85.
  19. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 87.
  20. ^ Crawford 2014, pp. 1–2.
  21. ^ "Pigsty – Live Through This chart positions". Billboard . Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  22. ^ "Violet past Hole". Amazon. Archived from the original on September 28, 2019.
  23. ^ "Modern Stone Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 6. Feb 11, 1995. p. 85. ISSN 0006-2510.
  24. ^ Harrison, Andrew (May 1994). "Dear and Decease". Select: 32. ISSN 0959-8367.
  25. ^ Fricke, David (April 21, 1994). "Live Through This by Pigsty". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August xix, 2011.
  26. ^ a b c Love, Courtney; Mark Seliger, Fred Woodward (1995). "Violet" (Music video). Geffen Records. Upshot occurs at 1:18.
  27. ^ a b O'Dair 1997, p. 468.
  28. ^ a b "Hole: Interview". The NewMusic. Canada. 1995. Event occurs at nine:thirty. Archived from the original on Dec 14, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  29. ^ a b Callahan, Maureen; France, Kim (Nov 1997). "Girls! Girls! Girls!". Spin. Vol. thirteen, no. viii. pp. 93–94. ISSN 0886-3032.
  30. ^ a b Auf der Maur, Melissa; Erlandson, Eric; Schemel, Patty (June 17, 1995). "KROQ Weenie Roast and Sing-A-Long" (Interview). Los Angeles, California, The states. [i]
  31. ^ Slant Magazine Staff (November 15, 2021). "The 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022.
  32. ^ a b c "Pigsty (2) – Violet at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.
  33. ^ "Response from ARIA re: nautical chart inquiry, received July 12, 2016". Imgur.com. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  34. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.
  35. ^ "Hole - Violet". Dutch Charts. Single Tiptop 100 (in Dutch). Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.
  36. ^ "HOLE – The Official Charts Company". Official UK Charts. Retrieved December eleven, 2010.
  37. ^ "Hole Album & Song Nautical chart History". Billboard . Retrieved December 11, 2010.

Sources [edit]

  • Crawford, Anwen (2014). Hole's Alive Through This. 33 1/3. Bloomsbury Us. ISBN978-1-623-56377-6.
  • Lankford, Ronald D. Jr. (2009). Women Singer-Songwriters in Stone: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s. Scarecrow Printing. ISBN978-0-8108-7268-4.
  • Love, Courtney (2006). Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Dearest. Picador. ISBN0-330-44546-iv.
  • O'Dair, Barbara (1997). Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Volume of Women in Rock . New York: Random House. ISBN978-0-679-76874-6.
  • Siegel, Carol (2000). New Millennial Sexstyles. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN978-0-253-33775-7.

External links [edit]

  • Official music video on YouTube
  • 1993 live performance of "Violet" in Stratford-upon-Avon on YouTube

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