1992 Weird Al Yankovic released his seventh album Off the Deep End. The album made #17 on the charts. Grunge, led by Nirvana was big at the time, and a parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as "Smells Like Nirvana" made #35 on the charts. The album cover parodied their cover, and there was a video as well. Parodies are of MC Hammer, New Kids on the Block, Gerardo, and Milli Vanilli. On the Milli Vanilli, in a 1992 interview with Dr. Demento, Yankovic said that he believed the parody to be "kind of redundant" at that point in time, given the lip-synching scandal that had effectively destroyed the band almost two years prior. In reference to this scandal, Yankovic also jokingly affirmed that he did indeed sing lead vocals on his parody.
This is an original, but it's a parody of a video by Extreme.
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