January19-22nd, 1992: Come as you are video shoot Director by Kevin Kerslake and released in March of 1992, Come as You Are was the second single from the bands second studio album Nevermind in 1992. It was the bands second American Top 40 hit, and second UK top 10 hit, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number nine on the UK Singles Chart. The music video drew inspiration from the cover artwork of Nevermind. Kurt chose the director specifically after the unpleasant experience of working with Bayer on the Smells Like Teen Spirit video. Cobain was unable to formulate any ideas beyond homaging the Nevermind album cover and including a lot of purples and reds, so he let Kerslake conceptualize the clip. Kurt did insist though that their faces be obscured. It was Kerslakes idea to use projections of the band members in the background of many shots. Most of the footage for this was shot in a park in the Hollywood Hills a few days before the main shoot. It is Kurt swinging on the chandalier, which he did for about an hour, resting on a ladder between takes. The band were very active at the editing stage, deciding to cut a lot of the goofy footage shot for the projections, favouring the more ethereal stuff. Interviewer: Was it during “Come as You Are” that they (The Suits)started getting on in your face? Kevin Kerslake: It was in the process of doing the video. I had a different relationship with Kurt, so we had like more of a one-on-one connection, but you could see how the suits came to smell money and start to act in ways that were much more along the lines of how we know the music industry to operate. For “Come As You Are,” I believe you said in the past that the set was supposed to look like a Hollywood mansion with holes in the walls, and a lot of it was about Kurt having to deal with new found fame and the record company. Is that close to what you were trying to do? KK: Yeah, well, there’s a lot of stuff that’s been said about it. I can’t talk too much about them just because of the situation, but Kurt didn’t want to be in the video. They were sick of themselves on magazine covers, and they said “we just don’t want to be in the video,” and that obviously wasn’t going to happen (laughs) so I had to come up with a way that you satisfied the clowns and you satisfied Kurt and the band, which was basically just this device that obscured them a bit which was just the water, or shooting through a stream of water. That looks like a massive set. KK: It’s not as big as it looks on camera (laughs). Movie magic. https://youtube/watch?v=wEnwU5UGVYs
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