Tonight, Tonight

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Tonight, Tonight
The Smashing Pumpkins
publication 1995
length 4:17
Genre (s) Alternative rock
Author (s) Billy Corgan
Label Virgin Records
album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Tonight, Tonight ( English for tonight, tonight ) is a song by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1995 of the most successful double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness . Tonight, Tonight was placed in the charts of several countries, with number 2 on the New Zealand charts as the highest position. The music video shot for the song by producers Flood , Alan Moulder and Billy Corgan has won several international awards.

An abbreviated acoustic version called Tonite Reprise was later released as the B-side of the single . In addition, this title was on the 3-LP version of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and in an extended version in 1996 released box set of The Airplane Flies High and 2001 Rotten Apples , the greatest-hits album of Smashing Pumpkins .

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The lyrics are from Corgan, who also composed the music to match his voice in G major . In 2012, Corgan stated on The Howard Stern Show on US television that the song was about himself and how he managed to get out of his hometown of Chicago to fulfill his dream. The line And the embers never fade in your city by the lake, The place where you were born ( The embers never go out in your city on [Michigan] Lake, the place where you were born ) is a clear reference to Chicago . The basic message of the text is: Everything is possible - and the (seemingly) impossible: The impossible is possible tonight ( The impossible is possible tonight ).

A musical specialty of the piece is a 30-piece string group of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .

Video

Tonight, Tonight
Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Link to the video
(Please note copyrights )

Film quote 1902/1995: The projectile with which the lunar travelers first traveled to the moon in 1902 and then returned to earth is a rocket in the video from 1995, although it remains unclear how it actually got to the moon.

The music video was shot within three days of shooting in May 1996 and is based on an idea by the duo Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris , who also directed . It is the Steampunk - homage to one of the first science fiction - silent films , the 1902 by Frenchman Georges Méliès film shot Trip to the Moon . At that time, Méliès himself developed the stop-motion technique for his film, which took up motifs from the two novels From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First People on the Moon by HG Wells .

The video was shot in the style of the original from 1902 and with similar “ special effects ” and is set in the 19th century. Tom Kenny and Jill Talley are a young couple who, together with other passengers, flies from the earth to the moon in a steam- and propeller-powered zeppelin . While the passengers look at the moon through windows in the zeppelin, you can see that it has a human face - one of several cinematic quotes from Méliès' film. The couple jump from a ramp of the flight vehicle onto the moon and slow their fall with umbrellas. Landed on the surface, humanoid moon dwellers appear, which the two capture after a short fight. However, the couple manage to free themselves and - another quote from the film from 1902 - return to earth by means of a rocket lying on a cliff. There they both sink into the sea after the splashdown , where they u. a. Meet Poseidon , some mermaids and other underwater creatures before they reappear in a bubble and from the steamship S.S. Méliès (another tribute to Georges Méliès) to be saved.

As the couple's story is told, the Smashing Pumpkins band members are repeatedly seen in contemporary clothing, with D'arcy Wretzky , James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin playing their respective instruments while Billy Corgan sings.

The directors used (deliberately from today's perspective) crude appearing special effects and costumes from the late 19th century. Since the video filming overlapped with that of James Cameron's monumental film Titanic , it was almost impossible to get contemporary costumes, so the two directors managed to get costumes redesigned.

reception

The song reached its highest international position in the New Zealand Singles Charts, where it was represented for eleven weeks, at number two as the highest position. It was followed by 7th in the UK , 13th in Ireland and 21st in Australia .

The video was nominated for numerous awards, including a. at the 39th Grammy Awards , where it won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Music Video . Six MTV Video Music Awards followed in the same year . It became Video of the Year , Breakthrough Video , Best Director in a Video , Best Special Effects in a Video , Best Art Direction in a Video, and Best Cinematography in a Video .

Cover version

The US electro pop band Passion Pit released a cover version of the song in 2010 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on allmusic.com
  2. New Zealand chart information on charts.nz
  3. The Airplane Flies High Review on allmusic.com.
  4. ^ Rotten Apples Review on allmusic.com.
  5. 'Tonight, Tonight' by Smashing Pumpkins on songfacts.com
  6. A 'Smashing' Wardrobe Run
  7. UK charts
  8. Charts Ireland
  9. Charts Australia
  10. Grammy Awards: best music video - short & long form
  11. 1996 13th MTV Video Music Awards on web.archive.org
  12. MP3: Passion Pit Covers Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight"

Remarks

  1. A play on words or homophone with the English word "melancholy" for melancholy , which is broken down into its phonetic components, such as the first and last name of a person. The translated album title would actually be: Mellon Collie / Melancholy and the infinite sadness .
  2. Tonite is an alternative US English spelling of tonight and acoustically identical to the latter, i.e. a homophone from a linguistic perspective.