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The cover for Off the Deep End parodies the famous cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind, which depicts an infant in the deep end of a pool chasing after a dollar bill on a fishhook. [22] The Off the Deep End cover shows Yankovic in the baby's place apparently swimming to catch a doughnut on a string. While the Nirvana cover has a fully nude baby ...
On June 9, 2009, Fueled by Ramen released The Friday Night Boys’ debut full length “Off the Deep End”. The day after the release of “Off the Deep End”, the band began the eight-week long “Let's Make a Mess Tour” in Phoenix, AZ with Hey Monday and This Providence. The tour concluded on July 24 in Houston, TX.
A parody of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit", it was released as the lead single from Yankovic's 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 cover of Off the Deep End is also a parody of the album containing that track, Nevermind, and its first track is a parody of that album's first track, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The X-Files: The Album features a hidden track at 10 minutes and 13 seconds into the final track.
[1] [2] Off the Deep End was released on June 9, 2009 [3] and peaked at number 198 on the Billboard 200 on June 27, 2009. [4] On July 10, 2009, a music video was released for "Stuttering". [5] Two singles were released from the album, "Stuttering" and "Stupid Love Letter". The album was produced by Emanuel Kiriakou and mixed by Serban Ghenea.
American musical comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his 1992 album Off the Deep End with the seven-second-long hidden track, "Bite Me." [16] Off the Deep End also featured the lead single "Smells Like Nirvana," a parody of the 1991 Nevermind single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and an album cover that parodied the cover of Nevermind.
Ronson explained the original draft of the script had Jackson dying by drowning, which led Gaga to write the lyrics, "I'm off the deep end watch as I dive in". Initially, "Shallow" was an end credits song, but when the script changed it became a love song about Jackson and Ally.
Dukes also wrote that "the separate influences are deftly applied to – by the end – create a great turn-it-up moment of euphoria." [6] Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song four stars out of five, calling it "as unique, innovative and risky an artist can get." Bjorke said that the song "has a good natured, feel good vibe to it and quite ...