After several weeks of airplay on MTV, the original video was replaced by the version containing more complex visual effects, including a computer-generated black hole. The band stated that the video was entirely the director's idea and added, "Our take on it was that at that point in making videos, we just wanted to pretend to play and not look that excited about it." Kim Thayil said that this video was one of a few their videos the band was fully satisfied with. Video represents a suburban area and its residents which are consumed by a black hole, while the band performs the song in an open field. The official music video for "Black Hole Sun" was directed by Howard Greenhalgh, and shot in the surreal and apocalyptic manner. The song was #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 7 weeks. So we started utilizing a little bit more of that. It was more vocal accompaniment rock, some guitar. Chris went that direction of singer-songwriter guy, and the band was more accepting because of the success of singer-songwriting stuff as opposed to more guitar-oriented rock. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil said of this song: We'd had singles before. I think he had the original demo up on his website at one point - worth hearing, if only to get an idea of how well he writes, plays and records his own music. When I got the demo for "Black Hole Sun," I was pretty stunned - it was really well done. His demos were pretty accurate representations of the songs, in fact, we wound up changing virtually none of his arrangements or parts. He was a drummer first, then started singing and gradually learned to play everything else out of necessity. It's not something I can do on purpose but occasionally it will happen by accident.Īlbum's producer Michael Beinhorn revealed details of recording: Chris was/is a terrific musician.
I liken it to Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, where there's a happy veneer over something dark. I even liked the way the words looked written down. It was this combination of bright and dark, this sense of hope and underlying moodiness. A black hole is a billion times larger than a sun, it's a void, a giant circle of nothing, and then you have the sun, the giver of all life. What's interesting to me is the combination of a black hole and the sun. I guess it worked for a lot of people who heard it, but I have no idea how you'd begin to take that one literally. lyrically it's probably the closest to me just playing with words for words' sake, of anything I've written. He wrote the lyrics first, then composed the music based on the images he came up with. Chris started thinking about the phrase and decided to build a song around it, as he believed it was a thought-provoking title. He thought the anchorman said "black hole sun," but in reality, he said something else. But Chris Cornell admitted in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that the title came from something he heard on the news.
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