Black Hole Sun
| Black Hole Sun | |
|---|---|
| Soundgarden | |
| publication | May 1994 |
| length | 5:20 (album version) / 4:31 (edit) |
| Genre (s) | Grunge , alternative rock |
| Author (s) | Chris Cornell |
| album | Superunknown |
Black Hole Sun is a rock or grunge song by the US band Soundgarden . It was released in May 1994 as the third single from their fourth studio album Superunknown and is one of the band's most famous songs. For the piece, the band received the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance .
Origin and content
Frontman Chris Cornell said he wrote the song in just 15 minutes after he came up with the tune while driving a night in the car. Cornell initially thought the band would not like the piece - but the other musicians liked the harmonically complex song, which became the group's biggest hit and most famous song. Cornell described the content as “ surreal dreamscape,” a “surreal dreamscape, a weird, play-with-the-title kind of song.” In the chorus, a black hole is addressed that may come and wash away the rain: “Black Hole Sun , won't you come and wash away the rain ... “The song is written in a drop-D mood .
reception
The song reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 , number 26 in Germany and number 12 in the UK . It also reached the top 10 in some countries, such as Canada , Australia , France , Ireland and the Netherlands .
The song inspired the writer Albert Ostermaier for the title of the novel Black Sun Shine .
When an image of the black hole in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy was published in April 2019 , which is the first ever image of a black hole, fans started a petition to name the image after Chris Cornell.
Music video
The director of the music video, which was also kept surreal, was Howard Greenhalgh. It shows a typical American residential area, in which people smilingly pursue bizarre leisure activities - for example an older man grills a Barbie doll , a woman puts on heavy make-up - whereby they are gradually pulled into the sky by a black hole and swallowed. The video appeared in two versions - the second was only played on MTV after a few weeks and contains stronger visual effects, which additionally distort the smile of the people, and the black hole was also made clear by effects. The video won a Clio Award and an MTV Video Music Award .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kerrang, March 1997
- ↑ www.contactmusic.com
- ^ RIP Magazine, April 1994
- ↑ www.charts.de
- ↑ www.chartarchive.org
- ^ Studio LCB with Albert Ostermaier. In: Dichterlesen.net. Literary Colloquium Berlin , accessed on September 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Because of his song "Black Hole Sun". Petition: Black Hole should be called Chris Cornell. In: image . April 13, 2019, accessed September 14, 2019 .
- ↑ howard.enigmacretu.com ( Memento from November 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )