Smells Like Nirvana

Smells Like Nirvana

"Smells Like Nirvana" is a song written and performed by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic as a parody of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit". It was released as the lead single from his Off the Deep End album in April 1992. "Smells Like Nirvana" was written during a three-year career low for Yankovic after the financial failure of his film UHF, but captured the quickly-rising popularity of grunge and Nirvana's success. The song was written to poke fun at Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's unintelligible lyrics in the original song. After being unable to contact Nirvana conventionally, Yankovic called Cobain while the band was on the set of Saturday Night Live, where Cobain quickly gave permission to record the parody.