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1995 unmarried by Hole

"Violet"
Violetcov.jpg

Encompass art from 7" vinyl release
Unmarried by Hole
from the album Live Through This
B-side
  • "Old Age"
  • "He Hit Me (And It Felt Similar a Kiss)"
  • "Whose Porn You Burn (Black)"
Released February 8, 1995 (1995-02-08) (US)
  • July 1995 (1995-07) (UK)
Recorded Oct 1993 (1993-10)
Studio Triclops Sound Studios
(Marietta, Georgia, U.S.)
Genre
  • Culling rock[ane]
  • grunge[2]
  • punk stone[1]
Length 3:25
Label DGC
Songwriter(south)
  • Courtney Dear
  • Eric Erlandson
Producer(due south)
  • 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 culling rock ring Hole, written past vocaliser and guitarist Courtney Dear and guitarist Eric Erlandson. The song was written in mid-1991, and was performed alive between 1991 and 1992 during Hole's before tours, somewhen actualization every bit the opening rails on the band'southward 2nd studio anthology Live Through This (1994). The song was released every bit the group's 7th single and the third from that album in early 1995.

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

"Violet" peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 's Modern Stone Tracks later the album's release in 1994, and is considered one of Pigsty'south near well-known and critically recognized songs.[iv] It charted at number 116 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Built-in list by Blender mag in 2005.[5]

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

Groundwork and recording [edit]

Love began writing "Violet" in the autumn of 1991, during the band's Pretty on the Within tour; she stated that she partly wrote the vocal at Jabberjaw, a rock guild in Los Angeles.[7] In a 1995 interview, she stated that she finished the song in the ring's bout van outside St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Michigan during the ring's audio check. As Love recalled, "[Information technology was] on Halloween... we were opening for the Laughing Hyenas, and there were forty people in that location. [I had heard] 5 songs from Nevermind, and I was and so jealous of those songs that I had to endeavor to top them. I could not believe that somebody I knew, somebody from our cloak-and-dagger, had written a batch of songs and then fiercely corking."[8] The band played the song live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November ane, 1991[9] during the band's tour to promote their starting time anthology, Pretty on the Within. 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 office of Pigsty's starting time radio session with BBC DJ John Peel.[11] In October 1993, the ring recorded the album version of the song as role of the Live Through This sessions at Triclops Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The recording from the 1991 Peel session was included on the band'southward 1995 EP Enquire For It, forth with "Doll Parts", which was recorded during the same studio visit.

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

Composition [edit]

The vocal is composed of a serial of iii-notation ability chords, and veers betwixt "soft verses and harsher choruses."[13] The verses of the song characteristic a atypical chord progression composed of the power chords (E5-C5-G5). The choruses of the song feature a three-chord progression (E5-F5-G5), besides as a chord progression similar to that of the chorus (E5-C5-D5-A5). There are two guitars featured in the song, with Dear playing clean rhythm guitar and Erlandson playing atomic number 82 guitar with heavy baloney.

"Violet" was reputedly written about The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Baton Corgan, with whom Love had had a relationship with prior to her relationship with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. On May 5, 1995, Love introduced the vocal on After... with Jools Holland every bit "a song almost a wiggle, I hexed him and now he'southward losing his hair",[3] which is seen as a reference to Corgan'due south hair loss.[14] Equally a result of the reports that the song was written about Corgan, information technology was featured at No. 9 on The Daily Beast'south "14 Fiercest Breakup Songs" list in 2010.[fourteen]

Variations of the song's lyrics, such as: "The sky turned violet / I desire it again / And tearing more than violent", figure in a verse form titled "To a higher place The Male child" that Beloved wrote in 1991.[15]

Assay [edit]

Bessie Smith in 1936

Janis Joplin performing circa 1967

Scholar Ballad Siegel compared "Violet" to Janis Joplin's "Slice of My Centre" as a "pop song styling of female sexuality at different points in white women's emancipation."[xvi] Commenting on the song'southward lyrical content, she writes that "Love'southward body becomes the battlefield upon which she meets and defeats males who would possess her."[17] Siegel suggests that the vocal's lyrics toy with the idea of offering 1's body for subjugation, but that Love shifts the power dynamic "at the moment of her offer...  she reasserts her command, not unlike Bessie Smith challenging her listeners to deny that her body belongs to her, to destroy because information technology is she who chooses."[17] Furthermore, Siegel suggests that the song'southward title itself alludes to the word "violate" as Dear vocalizes it in her performance.[17]

Music critic Ronald Lankford echoes a similar sentiment, interpreting the vocal every bit being clearly written from the perspective of a adult female speaking to her former lover, as well as "no 1 in particular,"[18] and also characterizes the song equally a "mini-drama between lasting honey and temporary fame."[xix] Other music scholars, such as Anwen Crawford, have drawn parallels between the vocal'due south lyrical references to amethyst and "little fish" to Kurt Cobain and Baton 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 third almost popular single from Live Through This, behind "Doll Parts" and "Miss World", charting at number 29 in the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks in April 1995,[21] and went on to get one of the band'south signature songs. It was released every bit a unmarried on Feb 8, 1995.[a]

The song was well-reviewed by critics. "Alive Through This is barely seconds onetime before Courtney takes 'Violet' by the horns and bellows, 'Get, take everything! Take everything, I dare y'all to!' in a manner guaranteed to have anyone who has ever given her so much every bit a surly glance watching their backs," noted Clark Collis in Select.[24] Rolling Stone said of it: "With its daydream whispers and startling gunshot-guitar chorus, "Violet" shakes, rattles and roars like a godless wedlock of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Fleetwood Mac'south "Go Your Ain Fashion.""[25] The song was placed in a 2010 NME article titled Pigsty's 10 Finest Moments, where it was referred to every bit "the quintessential Hole track" and a "titanic atmosphere tantrum and exhilarating rush of inconsolable rage at total vent... "Go on, take everything, have everything I want you to", she bellows, turning powerlessness into power over riffs that swing from sugariness and melancholy to boiling and volcanic on a dime."[4]

The vocal has been featured in several films, and in 2005 ranked at number 116 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born listing by Blender magazine.[v]

Music video [edit]

The music video contrasts women dancing in an early-20th-century strip gild 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 social club with burlesque dancers, juxtaposed with footage of several young ballerinas and immature 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 menses fashion, and is also featured in a tutu on the ballet stage with the girls. These scenes are integrated with footage of the ring performing the vocal.[26]

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

The music video was the showtime video to characteristic newly recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur afterward 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's themes, citing "pornography versus ballet, strippers, and beautiful 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'due south Clown Room, a Los Angeles dance bar where Love had worked in the 1980s.[30]

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

Rail listing [edit]

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

Credits and personnel [edit]

Charts [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Amazon'southward catalogue listing for the CD single notes a release of February eight, 1995,[22] which is corroborated past the February 11, 1995 Billboard listing, which denotes "Violet" as a "new" single that week.[23]
  2. ^ a b "He Hit Me", "Whose Porno You lot Burn" and "Credit in the Straight World" were recorded live at MTV Unplugged in New York on February 14, 1995, Tempodrom in Berlin on April 22, 1995 and Hollywood Palladium on November 9, 1994, respectively.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "The 95 Best Alternative Stone Songs of 1995". Spin. August half-dozen, 2015. p. 5. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  2. ^ Michael, Danaher (August 4, 2014). "The fifty Best Grunge Songs". Paste.
  3. ^ a b Love, Courtney (May five, 1995). "Hole - "Violet"". Later... with Jools Holland . Season 5. Episode i.
  4. ^ a b Mackay, Emily (July 27, 2009). "Lived Through This – Hole'south ten Finest Moments". NME . Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "The 500 Greatest Songs Since Y'all Were Born". Blender. 2005 – via Listal.
  6. ^ Lankford 2009, pp. 80–81.
  7. ^ Hopper, Jessica (April 14, 2014). "You Will Ache 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 Honey". Spin. Vol. ten, no. xi. p. 50. ISSN 0886-3032.
  9. ^ "Holelive.com – The Ultimate Hole Trading Community v iii.0". Holelive.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  10. ^ Crawford 2014, p. 7.
  11. ^ "The Peel Sessions 19/11/1991 – Hole". Keeping It Peel. BBC Radio ane. October 2005. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  12. ^ "BMI Repertoire Search, BMI.com". BMI. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  13. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 88.
  14. ^ a b ""Violet" by Courtney Dearest – The 14 Fiercest Breakup Songs". Comcast. Archived from the original on Oct 3, 2012. Retrieved Baronial 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 nineteen, 2011.
  22. ^ "Violet past Pigsty". Amazon. Archived from the original on September 28, 2019.
  23. ^ "Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 6. February 11, 1995. p. 85. ISSN 0006-2510.
  24. ^ Harrison, Andrew (May 1994). "Dearest and Decease". Select: 32. ISSN 0959-8367.
  25. ^ Fricke, David (April 21, 1994). "Live Through This by Hole". Rolling Stone . Retrieved Baronial 19, 2011.
  26. ^ a b c Love, Courtney; Mark Seliger, Fred Woodward (1995). "Violet" (Music video). Geffen Records. Event occurs at ane:eighteen.
  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 i, 2019.
  29. ^ a b Callahan, Maureen; France, Kim (November 1997). "Girls! Girls! Girls!". Spin. Vol. 13, no. eight. 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, US. [i]
  31. ^ Slant Magazine Staff (Nov 15, 2021). "The 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time". Camber Magazine. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022.
  32. ^ a b c "Hole (two) – Violet at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  33. ^ "Response from ARIA re: 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-v.
  35. ^ "Pigsty - Violet". Dutch Charts. Unmarried Superlative 100 (in Dutch). Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.
  36. ^ "Hole – The Official Charts Company". Official UK Charts. Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.
  37. ^ "Pigsty Album & Song Nautical chart History". Billboard . Retrieved December 11, 2010.

Sources [edit]

  • Crawford, Anwen (2014). Hole's Live Through This. 33 i/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 Press. ISBN978-0-8108-7268-4.
  • Love, Courtney (2006). Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love. Picador. ISBN0-330-44546-4.
  • O'Dair, Barbara (1997). Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book 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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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(Hole_song)

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