Not to mention it’s absolute masterpiece. Thanks to them making this song it helped start the whole movement towards shedding light on mental health, neglect, and bullying and the dangers of it going unchecked. Matt from Boston Anyone saying that pj capitalized on this tragedy for money is clueless.I read that Paul McCartney punched Eddie Vedder with the left hook and he put that in there because of that is that true? Lou Reed from New York CityIsn’t the part about getting hit by a surprise left my jaw left Herton dropped right open about Paul McCartney?.And when there is a school shooting, it often gets mentioned." It predated the whole shooter mentality of 'angry young white kids.' So in that time, a kid taking a gun into a classroom was way ahead of its time. The timelessness of that, if you think about it - from James Dean and Montgomery Clift and those kind of icons. Maybe it was the underbelly of disenfranchised youth. I've never seen a video that still gets written about so much. That created the great confusion, which made it appear like he brought the gun and shot his classmates, which was a huge misinterpretation and years later connected "Jeremy" to school shootings, which was not it at all. He told Songfacts: "MTV made us edit out the gun going in the mouth. This didn't sit well with director Mark Pellington. Originally, this section showed the gun, but MTV ordered it removed, citing a policy against showing firearms. We later see his classmates shocked and sprayed with blood, implying that Jeremy has shot himself. The band was like, 'We don't want to be in it,' so I shot a little bit of multiple exposures of them - walking around and their faces being in it a little bit."Īt the end of the video, we see Jeremy walk, shirtless, into his classroom, throw an apple to the teacher, and make a gesture as if pulling something from his pocket. I still remember shooting it, and I remember his electrifying, intense, almost possessed passion in performing it. ![]() We shot the band in England - shot three takes of Eddie singing, which was extremely intense. I still have all my original note cards and stuff for that.Īnd then the shooting of it, they very much left me alone. So, in re-writing it, it became even more freeform, and then it became a little more impressionistic, but they went for it. I wrote this extremely long, very passionate, elaborate treatment. I just dove in and put myself into it - put a lot of my own childhood junk into it. Then, my producer was like, 'Listen to it a little bit more.' I did, and I talked to Eddie, and he explained to me the story of the kid in Dallas, which is a true story. In a Songfacts interview with Pellington, he said: "I got sent the track and actually passed on it in the beginning. The clip was directed by Mark Pellington, who also did the Alice in Chains video for " Rooster" and later directed the film Arlington Road and several episodes of the TV series Cold Case. ![]() In 1993, the "Jeremy" video was awarded four MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video of the Year.The band scenes in the video were shot at a warehouse in a seedy section of London. ![]() Epic Records and MTV later rejected the music video, and released the version directed by Pellington instead. The original music video for "Jeremy" was directed and produced by Chris Cuffaro. The song gained popularity for its music video, directed by Mark Pellington and released in 1992, which received heavy rotation by MTV and became a hit. It did not originally chart on the regular Billboard Hot 100 singles chart since it was not released as a commercial single in the US at the time, but a re-release in July 1995 brought it up to number 79. It reached the number five spot on both the Mainstream and Modern Rock Billboard charts. The song was inspired by a newspaper article Vedder read about Jeremy Wade Delle, a high school student who shot himself in front of his English class on January 8, 1991. ![]() "Jeremy" was released in 1992 as the third single from Pearl Jam's debut album Ten (1991). "Jeremy" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam, with lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music written by bassist Jeff Ament.
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