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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 ...
The band moved to Los Angeles in January 2009 to begin work on their debut full-length album “Off the Deep End” with producer Emanuel Kiriakou at Chalice Studios. While working on their album, MTV dubbed the band “Rock Rookies of 2009,” [ 6 ] and invited them to their Los Angeles studio for an interview to promote the upcoming LP .
The single for "Smells Like Nirvana" was released on April 2, 1992, [1] while the album containing it, Off the Deep End, saw its release on April 14, 1992. [15] The single was backed with a song called "Waffle King", a song detailing a man who becomes famous through making waffles and ends up letting the fame get to his head.
[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.
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.
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.
A parody of the song by cover band and comedy act Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine appears on their 2005 album Aperitif for Destruction. The song was covered by "Weird Al" Yankovic for his polka medley "Polka Your Eyes Out" from his 1992 album Off the Deep End.