Doesn't Remind Me
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| Single by Audioslave | ||
| from the album Out of Exile | ||
| Released | January 3, 2006 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Genre | Alternative Rock | |
| Length | 4:15 | |
"Doesn't Remind Me" is the fourth song and third single from Audioslave's second album Out of Exile. It was released on May 24, 2005, in the United States, and was nominated for "Best Hard Rock Performance" at the 48th annual Grammy Awards.
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[edit] Background
After his parents divorced in his teens, Chris spiraled into depression. He has described this period as consisting mostly of long periods of depression, lots of drinking, and extreme isolation. He says he spent an entire year without leaving his house once[citation needed]. This period is the muse of the song. The song talks about his failures, perceived and real, as well as the pain felt at certain places or while doing certain things. There are also aspects of attempted redemption, which may be more drawn from his current life than his teenaged years.
[edit] Video
Directed by Chris Milk, this award winning music video starts off with a blurred image of an Uncle Sam poster tacked to a wall of a young boy’s bedroom, as he innocently plays with a toy fighter plane.
This boy is Vinny Intrieri, a six year old boxer from Philadelphia, known better by his fight name, Kid Vicious. Shot in a documentary like style, this fictional story explores the world of Vinny’s character.
Throughout the video, Vinny enjoys playing with military planes and dedicates most of his free time to his boxing training. His obsession with planes becomes clearer when the audience sees a portrait of his father, an Air Force pilot, who died fighting in the Iraqi war. As a result, his widowed mother has been forced to raise him and his little sister.
All of Vinny’s training has been for an upcoming fight. The music video culminates with a fight between Vinny and another boy in front of a packed crowd. Some of the footage seen is of an actual fight that Vinny fought in at the Legendary Blue Horizon.
When the “junior match” gets underway, Vinny comes out punching. Between each of the punches, the video flashes back to images from Vinny’s father’s death. These images include: his father’s fighter plane getting shot down over Iraq, his mother picking up the heart-breaking phone call, and the military funeral ceremony. The entire segment ends with Vinny winning the fight and celebrating with the crowd. The video parallels the song by showing the ways in which people find ways to forget about and move on from bad things. In this case Vinny leaves behind his toy planes which remind him of his father and boxes to forget about the painful event of his death.
While being an endearing story of a family affected by war, this unique music video also has a political undercurrent which exposes society's often subconscious promotion of violence without considering its consequences.
This video is also the first Audioslave video which doesn’t feature themselves performing the song.
[edit] Quotations
"It wouldn't [have been] a plus, it would [have been] a minus, that story is that story, and the members of Audioslave appearing in whatever form would only take away from how amazing the story is." - Chris Cornell
"We were all against the war from the very beginning, but now, I think you're seeing more and more that Middle America is turning against the war for reasons that are described in this video. The real human cost, the human tally of this awful war is shown in a very subtle, very real and very humanistic way. That's why it has such a great weight to it, because it personalizes this tragedy that's happening halfway around the world." - Tom Morello
"I think a lot of other people will cry when they see it, there aren't many videos that can do that to you — and still have a blistering guitar solo and a killer, kick-ass beat...I didn't know Little League boxing existed, and it's real, little kids actually go box and people love it. It makes sense, but it's barbaric." - Tim Commerford
[edit] Awards
- 15th Annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards - Winner "Video of the Year"
[edit] References
"Audioslave Avoid Being Aerosmith Circa 1987 Thanks To Chris Milk" [1]
| Audioslave |
| Chris Cornell | Tom Morello | Tim Commerford | Brad Wilk |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Audioslave | Out of Exile | Revelations |
| DVDs: Audioslave | Live in Cuba |
| Singles: "Cochise" | "Like a Stone" | "Show Me How To Live" | "I Am The Highway" | "What You Are" | "Be Yourself" | "Your Time Has Come" | "Doesn't Remind Me" | "Out of Exile" | "Original Fire" | "Revelations" |
| Related articles |
| Rage Against the Machine | Soundgarden | Interscope Records | Epic Records | Axis of Justice |
