Black Hole Sun

May 1994

Black Hole Sun is a rock or grunge song by the American band Soundgarden. He was decoupled in May 1994 as the third single from her fourth studio album, Superunknown and is one of the most known songs of the band. For the piece in 1995 the band a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance received.

Construction and content

Frontman Chris Cornell said he had written the song in 15 minutes. Cornell initially thought the band would not like the piece - but then it was a big hit. Cornell described the content as " surreal dreamscape ", a " surreal dreamscape, a weird, play - with-the -title kind of song. " In the refrain of a black hole is addressed, which come and may wash away the rain: "Black Hole Sun, will not you come and wash away the rain ... "The song is written in dropped- D tuning.

Reception

The song reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100, # 26 in Germany and # 12 in the UK. In some countries, it also reached the Top 10, as in Canada, Australia, France, Ireland and the Netherlands.

Music Video

Director of music videos was also surreal held Howard Greenhalgh. It shows a typical American residential neighborhood, engage in human smiling quirky pastimes - so an older man grilling a Barbie doll, a woman putting on lipstick strong - where they are gradually removed and swallowed by a black hole to the sky. The video was released in two versions - the second was played only after a few weeks on MTV and includes stronger visual effects, by the smiles of the people is also distorted, even the black hole was illustrated by effects. The video won a Clio Award and an MTV Video Music Award.