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1995 single by Pigsty

"Violet"
Violetcov.jpg

Cover fine art from seven" vinyl release
Single by Hole
from the album Live Through This
B-side
  • "Old Historic period"
  • "He Hitting Me (And Information technology Felt Similar a Kiss)"
  • "Whose Porn You Burn (Black)"
Released February 8, 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[i]
  • grunge[2]
  • punk rock[1]
Length 3:25
Characterization DGC
Songwriter(s)
  • Courtney Love
  • Eric Erlandson
Producer(southward)
  • Paul Q. Kolderie
  • Sean Slade
Pigsty singles chronology
"Circle I / Shutdown"
(1994) 		"Violet"
(1995) 		"Softer, Softest"
(1995)
Music video
"Violet" on YouTube

"Violet" is a vocal by American alternative rock band Hole, written past 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, somewhen appearing every bit the opening runway on the ring's second studio album Live Through This (1994). The song was released as the group'due south 7th single and the third from that album in early 1995.

The lyrics of "Violet" were inspired by Love'southward tumultuous relationship with Keen Pumpkins frontman Baton Corgan in 1990.[3] Several critics and scholars have noted parallels in the lyrics between Corgan as well equally Love'southward tardily married man, 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 's Modern Rock Tracks after the anthology'due south release in 1994, and is considered one of Hole'southward almost well-known and critically recognized songs.[4] It charted at number 116 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born list by Blender mag in 2005.[5]

The cover artwork for the unmarried features a Victorian mourning portrait of a deceased immature girl which was acquired from the historical archives of Stanley Burns.[6] A music video, released in 1995, features Love amidst numerous strippers performing in an early-20th century dance hall, assorted with ballerinas and young girls dancing in an elegant theater.

Groundwork and recording [edit]

Beloved began writing "Violet" in the fall of 1991, during the band'south Pretty on the Inside tour; she stated that she partly wrote the song at Jabberjaw, a rock club in Los Angeles.[seven] 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'south audio check. Every bit Love recalled, "[It was] on Halloween... nosotros were opening for the Laughing Hyenas, and there were 40 people there. [I had heard] five songs from Nevermind, and I was so jealous of those songs that I had to try to top them. I could not believe that somebody I knew, somebody from our underground, had written a batch of songs so fiercely great."[8] The ring played the song live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November i, 1991[nine] during the band'south tour to promote their commencement anthology, Pretty on the Inside. Early versions of the song were played several times between 1991 and 1992 at other alive performances.

The first known studio version of "Violet" was recorded on November xix, 1991 at Maida Vale Studios[10] as part of Pigsty'south beginning radio session with BBC DJ John Peel.[11] In October 1993, the band recorded the anthology version of the song as part of the Alive 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 aforementioned studio visit.

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

Composition [edit]

The song is composed of a series of 3-annotation ability chords, and veers between "soft verses and harsher choruses."[13] The verses of the song feature a singular chord progression composed of the ability chords (E5-C5-G5). The choruses of the song feature a iii-chord progression (E5-F5-G5), equally well as a chord progression similar to that of the chorus (E5-C5-D5-A5). At that place are two guitars featured in the song, with Dearest playing clean rhythm guitar and Erlandson playing pb guitar with heavy distortion.

"Violet" was reputedly written most The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, with whom Honey had had a relationship with prior to her relationship with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. On May five, 1995, Love introduced the song on Later... with Jools Holland every bit "a song about a jerk, I hexed him and now he's losing his hair",[iii] which is seen as a reference to Corgan'due south hair loss.[xiv] As a result of the reports that the song was written about Corgan, information technology was featured at No. 9 on The Daily Beast's "xiv Fiercest Breakup Songs" list in 2010.[xiv]

Variations of the song's lyrics, such as: "The sky turned violet / I want information technology again / And fierce more violent", effigy in a poem titled "Above The Male child" that Love 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 Heart" as a "popular vocal styling of female sexuality at different points in white women's emancipation."[sixteen] Commenting on the song's lyrical content, she writes that "Love's torso becomes the battleground upon which she meets and defeats males who would possess her."[17] Siegel suggests that the song's lyrics toy with the thought of offering one's trunk for subjugation, just that Love shifts the power dynamic "at the moment of her offer...  she reasserts her control, not unlike 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 vocal'southward title itself alludes to the word "violate" as Love vocalizes information technology in her performance.[17]

Music critic Ronald Lankford echoes a similar sentiment, interpreting the song equally being clearly written from the perspective of a woman speaking to her former lover, too equally "no ane in particular,"[18] and also characterizes the song every bit a "mini-drama betwixt lasting love and temporary fame."[nineteen] Other music scholars, such as Anwen Crawford, take drawn parallels betwixt the song's lyrical references to amethyst and "footling 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 ring's third virtually 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 become one of the band'southward signature songs. Information technology was released every bit a single on February 8, 1995.[a]

The song was well-reviewed by critics. "Live Through This is barely seconds old before Courtney takes 'Violet' by the horns and bellows, 'Go, take everything! Take everything, I dare you lot to!' in a manner guaranteed to take anyone who has e'er given her and so much as a surly glance watching their backs," noted Clark Collis in Select.[24] Rolling Stone said of it: "With its fantasize whispers and startling gunshot-guitar chorus, "Violet" shakes, rattles and roars like a godless marriage of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Fleetwood Mac'due south "Go Your Own Way.""[25] The song was placed in a 2010 NME article titled Pigsty's 10 Finest Moments, where it was referred to as "the quintessential Hole track" and a "titanic temper tantrum and exhilarating rush of inconsolable rage at full vent... "Continue, have everything, take everything I want yous to", she bellows, turning powerlessness into power over riffs that swing from sweet and melancholy to boiling 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 You Were Born list by Blender magazine.[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 belatedly 1994 and was directed past Marking Seliger and Fred Woodward.[27] The video is filmed largely in sepia tones and features a 1920s-era strip order 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 as consisting of "innocent girls in tutus juxtaposed with naughty, fleshy sex activity-club dancers."[27] Love pole dances in the music video in the period style, and is too featured in a tutu on the ballet stage with the girls. These scenes are integrated with footage of the ring performing the song.[26]

The video follows themes discussed in the song, particularly sexual exploitation of women.[17] According to Love, the content of the video was inspired by "acid flashbacks" and "old film stock".[28] "I love old pornography," Love said, "But I wanted to at the same fourth dimension, y'all know... all of the [music] videos for years that accept put stripping or one-half-naked women on a pedestal, I wanted to sort of evidence the degrading feel that it is."[28] Siegel notes that the music video replays Love's "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 as 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 sound and visual synchronization.[29]

The music video was the first video to characteristic newly recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur after 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'due south 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 bodily strippers handpicked by Courtney Honey from Colossal'southward Clown Room, a Los Angeles trip the light fantastic bar where Love had worked in the 1980s.[30]

In 2021, Slant Magazine named it the 25th greatest music video of all fourth dimension.[31]

Track list [edit]

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

Credits and personnel [edit]

Charts [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Amazon's catalogue listing for the CD single notes a release of February 8, 1995,[22] which is corroborated by the February 11, 1995 Billboard listing, which denotes "Violet" every bit a "new" unmarried that week.[23]
  2. ^ a b "He Hit Me", "Whose Porno You lot Burn" and "Credit in the Directly Globe" 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 nine, 1994, respectively.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995". Spin. Baronial vi, 2015. p. v. Retrieved September xviii, 2020.
  2. ^ Michael, Danaher (August 4, 2014). "The 50 Best Grunge Songs". Paste.
  3. ^ a b Beloved, Courtney (May 5, 1995). "Pigsty - "Violet"". Later on... with Jools The netherlands . Flavour v. Episode 1.
  4. ^ a b Mackay, Emily (July 27, 2009). "Lived Through This – Pigsty's 10 Finest Moments". NME . Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "The 500 Greatest Songs Since Yous Were Born". Blender. 2005 – via Listal.
  6. ^ Lankford 2009, pp. 80–81.
  7. ^ Hopper, Jessica (April xiv, 2014). "You Will Ache Like I Ache: The Oral History of Hole's 'Live Through This'". Spin. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015.
  8. ^ Marks, Craig (Feb 1995). "Endless Love". Spin. Vol. x, no. 11. p. l. ISSN 0886-3032.
  9. ^ "Holelive.com – The Ultimate Pigsty Trading Community v 3.0". Holelive.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  10. ^ Crawford 2014, p. 7.
  11. ^ "The Peel Sessions 19/11/1991 – Pigsty". Keeping Information technology Peel. BBC Radio 1. October 2005. Retrieved December xi, 2010.
  12. ^ "BMI Repertoire Search, BMI.com". BMI. Retrieved April x, 2010.
  13. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 88.
  14. ^ a b ""Violet" past Courtney Dearest – The 14 Fiercest Breakup Songs". Comcast. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved August eighteen, 2011.
  15. ^ Love 2006, p. 120.
  16. ^ Siegel 2000, p. 137.
  17. ^ a b c d e Siegel 2000, p. 138.
  18. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 85.
  19. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 87.
  20. ^ Crawford 2014, pp. ane–2.
  21. ^ "Pigsty – Alive Through This chart positions". Billboard . Retrieved Baronial 19, 2011.
  22. ^ "Violet by 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). "Beloved and Death". Select: 32. ISSN 0959-8367.
  25. ^ Fricke, David (Apr 21, 1994). "Alive Through This by Hole". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August nineteen, 2011.
  26. ^ a b c Love, Courtney; Marker Seliger, Fred Woodward (1995). "Violet" (Music video). Geffen Records. Event occurs at one:18.
  27. ^ a b O'Dair 1997, p. 468.
  28. ^ a b "Hole: Interview". The NewMusic. Canada. 1995. Event occurs at 9:30. Archived from the original on December 14, 2021. Retrieved Oct 1, 2019.
  29. ^ a b Callahan, Maureen; French republic, Kim (November 1997). "Girls! Girls! Girls!". Spin. Vol. 13, 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, US. [one]
  31. ^ Slant Magazine Staff (November 15, 2021). "The 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time". Slant Mag. 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: 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. ^ "Hole - Violet". Dutch Charts. Single Top 100 (in Dutch). Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.
  36. ^ "HOLE – The Official Charts Company". Official Great britain Charts. Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.
  37. ^ "Hole Album & Vocal Chart History". Billboard . Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.

Sources [edit]

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

External links [edit]

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

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_%28Hole_song%29

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