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Song by American culling stone band Hole

1995 single by Hole

"Violet"
Violetcov.jpg

Encompass fine art from seven" vinyl release
Single past Hole
from the album Live Through This
B-side
  • "Sometime Age"
  • "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"
  • "Whose Porn You Burn down (Black)"
Released February eight, 1995 (1995-02-08) (U.s.a.)
  • July 1995 (1995-07) (UK)
Recorded October 1993 (1993-10)
Studio Triclops Sound Studios
(Marietta, Georgia, U.Southward.)
Genre
  • Alternative stone[1]
  • grunge[2]
  • punk rock[1]
Length iii:25
Label DGC
Songwriter(s)
  • Courtney Beloved
  • Eric Erlandson
Producer(southward)
  • 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 band Pigsty, 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 Hole'south earlier tours, somewhen actualization equally the opening track on the band'south second studio album Live Through This (1994). The song was released as the group's seventh single and the third from that album in early on 1995.

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

"Violet" peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 's Modernistic Rock Tracks after the album'south release in 1994, and is considered one of Hole'southward well-nigh well-known and critically recognized songs.[four] It charted at number 116 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since Yous Were Built-in list by Blender magazine in 2005.[5]

The cover artwork for the single features a Victorian mourning portrait of a deceased young girl 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]

Honey began writing "Violet" in the autumn of 1991, during the ring's Pretty on the Inside bout; she stated that she partly wrote the song at Jabberjaw, a rock club in Los Angeles.[vii] In a 1995 interview, she stated that she finished the song in the ring's tour van exterior St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Michigan during the band'southward sound check. Every bit Honey 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 and so jealous of those songs that I had to try to superlative them. I could non believe that somebody I knew, somebody from our underground, had written a batch of songs and then fiercely groovy."[8] The ring played the song live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 1, 1991[nine] during the band's tour to promote their starting time album, Pretty on the Within. 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 19, 1991 at Maida Vale Studios[10] as part of Hole'south first radio session with BBC DJ John Peel.[11] In Oct 1993, the ring recorded the album version of the song every bit 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'due south 1995 EP Inquire For It, along with "Doll Parts", which was recorded during the same studio visit.

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

Composition [edit]

The song is composed of a series of 3-annotation power chords, and veers betwixt "soft verses and harsher choruses."[xiii] The verses of the song feature a singular chord progression composed of the ability chords (E5-C5-G5). The choruses of the song characteristic a 3-chord progression (E5-F5-G5), also every bit a chord progression similar to that of the chorus (E5-C5-D5-A5). There are two guitars featured in the song, with Beloved playing clean rhythm guitar and Erlandson playing atomic number 82 guitar with heavy distortion.

"Violet" was reputedly written about The Peachy Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, with whom Love had had a relationship with prior to her human relationship with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. On May 5, 1995, Love introduced the song on Later... with Jools Holland as "a song about a jerk, I hexed him and now he's losing his hair",[iii] which is seen as a reference to Corgan's hair loss.[14] As a result of the reports that the song was written nearly Corgan, it was featured at No. 9 on The Daily Beast's "14 Fiercest Breakdown Songs" list in 2010.[14]

Variations of the song'south lyrics, such every bit: "The sky turned violet / I want information technology again / And violent more violent", figure in a poem titled "Higher up The Boy" that Beloved wrote in 1991.[15]

Analysis [edit]

Bessie Smith in 1936

Janis Joplin performing circa 1967

Scholar Ballad Siegel compared "Violet" to Janis Joplin's "Slice of My Eye" as a "pop vocal styling of female sexuality at unlike points in white women'southward emancipation."[sixteen] Commenting on the song'due south lyrical content, she writes that "Beloved'south body becomes the battlefield upon which she meets and defeats males who would possess her."[17] Siegel suggests that the song's lyrics toy with the idea of offer one's body for subjugation, just that Dearest shifts the ability dynamic "at the moment of her offering...  she reasserts her control, not unlike Bessie Smith challenging her listeners to deny that her trunk belongs to her, to destroy because it is she who chooses."[17] Furthermore, Siegel suggests that the song'south 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 as being clearly written from the perspective of a woman speaking to her former lover, besides as "no i in detail,"[18] and likewise characterizes the song every bit a "mini-drama between lasting honey and temporary fame."[19] Other music scholars, such as Anwen Crawford, have fatigued parallels betwixt the vocal'southward lyrical references to amethyst and "fiddling 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.[xx]

Reception [edit]

"Violet" was the band'south third most popular single from Live Through This, backside "Doll Parts" and "Miss World", charting at number 29 in the Billboard'south Modern Rock Tracks in April 1995,[21] and went on to become one of the ring'south signature songs. It was released equally a single on Feb eight, 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! Accept everything, I dare you to!' in a manner guaranteed to take anyone who has ever given her 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 spousal relationship of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way.""[25] The song was placed in a 2010 NME commodity titled Pigsty's 10 Finest Moments, where it was referred to as "the quintessential Hole track" and a "titanic atmosphere tantrum and exhilarating rush of inconsolable rage at full vent... "Continue, take everything, take everything I want y'all to", she bellows, turning powerlessness into power over riffs that swing from sweetness and melancholy to humid 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 list past Blender magazine.[5]

Music video [edit]

The music video contrasts women dancing in an early on-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 Marker Seliger and Fred Woodward.[27] The video is filmed largely in sepia tones and features a 1920s-era strip guild 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 equally consisting of "innocent girls in tutus juxtaposed with naughty, fleshy sex activity-club dancers."[27] Beloved pole dances in the music video in the period fashion, and is also featured in a tutu on the ballet phase with the girls. These scenes are integrated with footage of the band 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 pic stock".[28] "I honey sometime pornography," Love said, "But I wanted to at the same fourth dimension, you know... all of the [music] videos for years that take put stripping or half-naked women on a pedestal, I wanted to sort of show the degrading feel that it is."[28] Siegel notes that the music video replays Love's "well-known past 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 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'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 Beloved from Jumbo's Clown Room, a Los Angeles dance bar where Dearest had worked in the 1980s.[30]

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

Track list [edit]

All songs written by Courtney Dear 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 viii, 1995,[22] which is corroborated by the Feb 11, 1995 Billboard listing, which denotes "Violet" as a "new" single that calendar week.[23]
  2. ^ a b "He Hit Me", "Whose Porno You Fire" and "Credit in the Directly World" were recorded live at MTV Unplugged in New York on Feb fourteen, 1995, Tempodrom in Berlin on April 22, 1995 and Hollywood Palladium on Nov 9, 1994, respectively.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "The 95 Best Culling Rock Songs of 1995". Spin. August 6, 2015. p. five. Retrieved September xviii, 2020.
  2. ^ Michael, Danaher (August 4, 2014). "The 50 All-time Grunge Songs". Paste.
  3. ^ a b Dear, Courtney (May 5, 1995). "Hole - "Violet"". Later... with Jools Kingdom of the netherlands . Season 5. Episode i.
  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 You Were Born". Blender. 2005 – via Listal.
  6. ^ Lankford 2009, pp. 80–81.
  7. ^ Hopper, Jessica (April 14, 2014). "Y'all Will Ache Like I Anguish: The Oral History of Pigsty's 'Live Through This'". Spin. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015.
  8. ^ Marks, Craig (February 1995). "Endless Dearest". Spin. Vol. ten, no. 11. p. l. ISSN 0886-3032.
  9. ^ "Holelive.com – The Ultimate Hole Trading Community v 3.0". Holelive.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  10. ^ Crawford 2014, p. 7.
  11. ^ "The Peel Sessions 19/11/1991 – Hole". Keeping It Peel. BBC Radio i. October 2005. Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.
  12. ^ "BMI Repertoire Search, BMI.com". BMI. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  13. ^ Lankford 2009, p. 88.
  14. ^ a b ""Violet" by Courtney Beloved – The xiv Fiercest Breakup Songs". Comcast. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved August xviii, 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. one–ii.
  21. ^ "Hole – Alive Through This chart positions". Billboard . Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  22. ^ "Violet by Hole". Amazon. Archived from the original on September 28, 2019.
  23. ^ "Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. half-dozen. February 11, 1995. p. 85. ISSN 0006-2510.
  24. ^ Harrison, Andrew (May 1994). "Love and Death". Select: 32. ISSN 0959-8367.
  25. ^ Fricke, David (April 21, 1994). "Live Through This past Hole". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  26. ^ a b c Honey, Courtney; Mark Seliger, Fred Woodward (1995). "Violet" (Music video). Geffen Records. Event occurs at 1:18.
  27. ^ a b O'Dair 1997, p. 468.
  28. ^ a b "Pigsty: Interview". The NewMusic. Canada. 1995. Event occurs at ix:30. Archived from the original on Dec fourteen, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  29. ^ a b Callahan, Maureen; France, Kim (Nov 1997). "Girls! Girls! Girls!". Spin. Vol. xiii, 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. [ane]
  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 "Hole (2) – 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-i-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 UK Charts. Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.
  37. ^ "Pigsty Album & Vocal Chart History". Billboard . Retrieved Dec 11, 2010.

Sources [edit]

  • Crawford, Anwen (2014). Hole'due south Live Through This. 33 1/3. Bloomsbury United states of america. ISBN978-i-623-56377-six.
  • Lankford, Ronald D. Jr. (2009). Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s. Scarecrow Press. ISBN978-0-8108-7268-4.
  • Honey, 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 Firm. 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 operation 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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