(this is a still from the video)This is a song by a famous American rock band . Written by Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl and the band's lead singer and produced by Butch Vig, the song uses a verse-chorus form where the main four-chord riff is used during the intro and chorus to create an alternating loud and quiet dynamic.
The unexpected success of the song propelled the album to the top of the charts at the start of 1992, often marked as the point where alternative rock entered the mainstream.
In the words of the band's lead singer,
" I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band — or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard. "
The video won the band the "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Group" awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards,[48] and in 2000 the Guinness World Records named the song the Most Played Video on MTV Europe
A snippet of the song was also performed in a cabaret style in the 2001 movie Moulin Rouge!.
The song talks about the confused youth of the 1980s and 1990s and although it has no central idea, many of its lines sarcastic and contradict each other.
Name the song, the band and its very famous vocalist....
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