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It might sound a little different than you remember, but there鈥檚 a of Nirvana鈥檚 鈥淪mells Like Teen Spirit鈥� online. With 2 million views online, it was finally taken down for copyright reasons.
The 鈥渘ew鈥� track got a lot of people wondering about whether the legendary Seattle band could have easily been a pop group. The person behind the re-tuned song 鈥� which he renamed 鈥淭een Sprite鈥� 鈥� is Austin musician Will Patterson, also known as Sleep Good.
Patterson says the idea came from a Nirvana CD-R he bought at a garage sale that had the individual components of each song separated.
鈥淎nd then I was playing guitar to them and realized that if I strip everything out 鈥� the vocals and the drums 鈥� I could kind of like turn it into this whole different song,鈥� he says. 鈥淟ike a pop punk song.鈥�
He says that from there, creating a new version was effortless 鈥� but he didn鈥檛 expect the online.
鈥淚t felt really bizarre that people cared enough to spread it around,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 pretty controversial because there are a lot of people who really hated it and there are people who were really surprised and there were people who actually liked it better.鈥�
Patterson says his new Sleep Good album, called Bohemian Grove, will be out in the spring.
Written by Jen Rice.
