SchizoidMan5 nobody acttually sing the song perfectly

He literally only played this song like once before he did it live. Cut him some slack

YaboiChipTolentino should still know the lyrics if he like it.

FluxxerHD tell that to Eminem fans. Also you don’t have to memorize a song to like it. Sure he did claim to be a fan of the song, but I like a lot of songs that I don’t have memorized. He didn’t have any time to memorize before because he basically decided that day

YaboiChipTolentino This ain’t even a hard song though. It’s mostly the same lyrics.

Moritz 😐😐😐

LMAO stop i’m sad for them

Ouchhh 😭😭

Moritz Unfunny as hell

@@niknak8299 😭

LOL

I loved there song califoniacation

r/woosh

@@danksenpai3226 you don't know how that works do you

@@danksenpai3226 lit meme bro goteem 😂😂😂😂😂👌🔥

Nope he doesnt

It was pretty cringe honestly

@@elliottwalker9522 definitely

Isnt that basically what he said?

I thought they had to sing it differently because of copyright claims?

Ollie Law seriously. Teen Spirit plays every day on the radio at least once. How do you not know the lyrics?

Mr Speck and he said he is a fan of them

This song (like many other Nirvana songs) originaly had no lyrics to begin with... They threw any random word that rhymed in and rolled their live gigs most of the time. Check it.

One does not simply even know what the lyrics are to start with😅😂😂

Justin Long dammit! You beat me to this comment by only hours!

thats what i thought.

yea not even close lol

kurt changed words to his songs all the time.

^ he did very true but when you cover a song of a legend you don't naturally just make up your own lyrics. it's not like kurt would care, it's just the lead singer literally sang the song as if he thought those were the lyrics

C EEJ true

No

Mr puma Vol 7.0 yes

@@jramosv1723 no idiot Imagine dragons sucks Nirvana change pop culture So please shut up

Mr puma Vol 7.0 i agree

@@mrpumavol7.044 then why are you watching the video

True

he hates this song, correct.

Would've hated everything else, but true

Wtf Nooo....... only kurt can mess it up!!! Everyone one its should be a perfect tribute to him😢😢😢

@@riyadhf1rdausehh he never hated this song

they did it their way

Lol

Only Dave can play it tbh, he literally destroys his kit it's epic

pop group? you know nothing about music do you?

Its a fucking pop group. do you anything about music?

John Stamos lol

John Stamos yeah Wayne's a cool guy.

Why do they have to be close to nirvana?

only problem is that he knows how to play the guitar :-)

skfoxjrxzz cuz their playing a nirvana song

Yea and

@@andre-pz1wv It's off putting to say the least. Nirvana is a PUNK-based alternative rock band which goes against corporate music like Imagine Dragons (No offense). To add more grain of salt to Nirvana fans, they covered the most corporate Nirvana single and song in the most corporate Nirvana Album. Nevertheless, I still believe that Imagine Dragons did this to cover a popular song in the 90s which I have nothing against. However, if they were to introduce Nirvana to younger audiences, I'd rather have them play underrated songs like Aneurysm, Breed, Milk It, or Love Buzz (Nirvana Cover).

@@skord176 this video was pre corporate imagine dragons, its a shame what they've now become 😔

...good?

Shail. I think their older stuff was great but their newer stuff is going down FAST

caelyn same, and honestly I could cry

caelyn me too

Yess the indie sauce post

so am i lmao

Oh my god same

Yeah, everyone in the comment section is acting like they were making an actual release of a cover for the song when they just wanted to enjoy themselves with singing it for the audience like a lot of artists/bands may do at concerts 🤦‍♀️

probably because nirvana's drummer Dave started Foo Fighters

@@whatwinter for sure! That's the point. They never cover Nirvana

@@ebertd.m.alvares8249 ya fair enough, the only people who could perfectly cover nirvana won't because, like you said its a sacred band. Nirvana basically became what the name means.

Oh account that nirvana drummer is foo fighters lead guitarist that makes sense

Post Malone's cover was pretty good though. Not Kurt, but still good...

Why are you booing us, were right

@@InlandFaun374 Yes but it's unneeded / no one cares. 98% of people who are listening to this know Kurt hated this song in the end

He liked at one point

@@TKMMA_ yup, then it got extremely popular and he hated it.

Max Jr. yeah it sucked it’s just sad he just wanted to make music and have fun but when it went mainstream he got ultra popular and that’s what pushed to commit suicide

Wut?!

honestly this isn’t a bad cover but people like miley cyrus shouldn’t cover this song it’s a fucking rock anthem and it ruins the legacy of the song. also jsyk covering a song and listening to a song are different things

Jack H kuz it doesnt sound too good

Negative Creep well miley Cyrus covered up on melancholy hill and they did this but i mean they did good for what they do but the original is always better

Because the cover is trash

Jack H diehard nirvana fans don’t listen to smells like teen spirit you know? More like the albums bleach and in utero along with incesticide. Also some rare singles. You should listen to territorial pissings at leadt

this was the worst thing i've ever heard

@@nimrod7139 Ikr

That would be the most terrible thing they could do

no

Sadly you're right. The musicians aren't prominent enough on their last two albums.

Why do bands like these do that though?Imagine dragons, Coldplay, maroon 5 etc. they have guitarists, bassists and drummers but most of their songs don’t even feature these instruments or doesn’t have them as prominent. Like what’s the point of being a band you can only be a solo vocalist if you’re not gonna use the rest of the guys.

@TheMatrix1101 You must be deaf if you think Coldplay don't use instruments

I Like Trains they do, but not as much. Like not in every song. Not like bands like Nirvana, guns n roses where the entire sound of the song is based around the instruments that the members play.

Well their last album was an improvement. I hear bass in at least some parts in songs like Lonely, Wrecked, Easy Come Easy Go, Giants, Dull Knives (?), No Time For Toxic People and also some live versions of Cutthroat

Thaheera Althaf Quite possibly because...it's a Nirvana song.

If youre gonna do nirvana do it right

@@noone-cc8so brother did well (perhaps the chorus did not come out too) but everything else yes, besides Dan Reynolds and Kurt Cobain have the same type of voice

There goes this saying.... "Never attempt something when you don't know how to do it."

Yeah because there is no comparison, Nirvana is better🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Brandon Padilla nobody can understand them.

@@MrLump its not really Hard To understand them its like easy af after you have listened it few times

Exactly

I think it was good and I dont like imagine dragons

Well, it was the guitarist's fault cause in the original song, that "hello" part at the end of the solo is played only twice.

Autumn theres two version, the music video does it twice but the studio version does it like 5 times

Yea

Connor Loughnane he's not trying to be kurt lol

Yara yea but nothing that anyone does of his will good

be^

Well of course not. Still, i felt like they did this some justice. Not bad.

Imagine dragons fucking suck. Soulless corporate “rock”

I think socotra might bring the grunge sound back

they also forgot the lyrics and one point but i can let it slide

if u say this is one of ur favorite artists and do it like this u r lying 2 ur fans. good try tho...not really. check out seether they actually mean it

I’m not surprised they chose to play to most popular nirvana song that everyone has heard at some point in their life instead of a better nirvana song that fits their sound better

people say i sound like imagine dragons... dont think i do

Based

They do have good headbanging song like natural

@@Ascalipsa I’m So Sorry too.

Wtf is up with your pic

Dude, seriously. That pic. How comes?

You don't always come across people who read the description.

Wtf's that pic

I have your profile pic in my file of weird photos I send to people to gross them out. I got banned from Kik twice with it

dragonheart8706 Kurt changed the lyrics all the time dude, the lyrics didn’t really matter to him

No imagine dragons

😂 💯

No I sure dont. They butchered it

The guitarist rocks and the drummer isn’t bad either!!

Cobain

Laura Pt Typo lol

Boddah Lennon Kurt messed up most of his own songs half the time lol

Boddah Lennon same

"Wanting to be somebody else is a waste of the person you are" ~Kurt cobain.... he didn't like the song much but he would've appreciated them doing it in their own style

xD

Wat

@@snttmstr5248 yes, im confused

@@TerracedMckenna i didn't understand anything

Nehemiah Zo Was this supposed to be funny?

Couldn't of said it better myself.

+ the number of times Nirvana covered a song and messed up the whole cover but still had fun, but I don't see anybody going bat shit about it

ya, but just look at em, can't even spell poser

+Pierre-Daniel Desrues example of what you are talking about Nirvana covering Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song in Krist Novoselic's mom's house

Hoss Sawyer that was in a basement as teenagers, this is in front of a lot of people with better gear, in a professionally set up auditorium.

THANK you!! the only logical person here i swear.

You are a very logical person, but this generally isn't their genre.

Thats true, not their genre

geez dude whats with the hate, they are just are fans

crazycatlady1313 you cover a band's song for practice, or unless you are really good and want to pay tribute. you don't do it half assed and make a mockery of it. this was all about attention

The guitarist was pretty fucking far from on point.

Rune Steinsland give them a break he even said they've never played it before like to see you do better

***** Hold your tongue, they did a great cover even the guitarist. Can you do that ? No I don't think so

Brendan Halsey apart from the fact it was in completely the wrong key (not hating) he did excellently. It's tough to play love when you're needing to have a stage presence too

Guitarist did a pretty shit job actually, hes playing it in wrong tuning it sounds like, hes forgetting to mute strings when your supposed to and he fucked up the solo. I get that its not gonna be amazing but he could of atleast put some work into covering the song a bit better.

Then why perform it?

@@wuckf1t true

For fun?

@@wuckf1t because they wanted to. What's the problem?

DarKest-PaTo Well, receive a fair amount of hate then , no problem here

+Scrod99 he hated this song. it's sure. he hated his fame too yes.

Octodad No, he just hated the song's fame. Kurt wrote the song because he was "disgusted by his generation's apathy". Tying that in with wanting to create the "ultimate pop song" as a joke, he formed a clever song. True, Krist and Dave were against the song at first, but Butch Vig (their producer) insisted they finish the song and publish it. That song ignited the "Grunge" and "Alternative" genres, and became the #1 alternative track on the charts. Kurt being Kurt, he refused to play it a lot of shows to "weed out" those who just wanted to hear a pop tune. He may have put up an appearance of disgust for the tune, but that's only because he hated the mainstream media and it's popularity.

Hm, but the fact that he hated the song's fame means also that he hated the song in itself no ? Radiohead hated Creep because fans asked them too much to play it, I think it's the same context. (Sorry for the mistakes I'm French)

It was never explicitly stated that any member of Nirvana "hated" Smells Like Teen Spirit. Kurt comes off as hateful towards it, but the air he put on was to spite the "fake" fans and mainstream media

yeah so they can sing it still ??

K B me too!

+Jocelyn Carino total nirvana fan.... of course...

igor sousa ???

+igor sousa (Thomas) man my sister love heavy metal and she looks like all she listens to is hip hop

What's your other favorite songs?

Steven Stynze good for you 👍

I agree almost with everything, but dont be mad i think this song just was not made for them, it just dont sound so great to me :)

I'm Obsessed - Sorry and at least like the video states they were doing it only that one time at that one show. so they shouldn't feel annoyed because they know some people don't want another smells like teen spirit cover. it was for the fans at the show.

You're so right

lol yep I totally agree with you mate, they're singing that song in respect of nirvana now there some people who don't have brain and won't ever understand this

lol so true

Well what are they gonna do lol just stop playing?

lol btw love ur profile pic 👌🏻

A/A/S ang 😍

Que dice?

ils connaissait même pas les paroles...

+Tom Garcia il*

+Tom Garcia , je comprends et je confirme qu'il ne connais pas franchement bien les paroles après c'est de l'interprétation et puis c'est quand même un defis de reprendre cette chanson mais bon, les chansons d'imagine dragons sont quand même géniales et je pense que leurs performances lives de leurs chansons doivent être meilleurs (et je pourrai en faire l'expérience le 27 octobre ahah :3)

+ANDREAetINDIRA Oui fin smells like teen spirit c'est facile pour la guitare comme pour la batterie et comme pour le chant... mais imagine dragon n'en reste pas moins un excellent groupe et qui de plus ne fait pas dans la facilité du rock old school et proposent donc des choses nouvelle :)

+Tom Gracia oui, complètement d'accord avec toi, c'est 2 groupes assez différent et 2 groupes complètement géniaux alors vive imagine dragons et nirvana x)

I just hope he was butchering this song to oblivion

Except for the fact that Lorde did a really good job at All Apologies by actually doing something interesting with the song. Imagine Dragons just sound like a high school cover band with really expensive equipment.

Aaron Donelly Oh my god, like, get over it. So what, Imagine Dragons didn't sound exactly like Nirvana? Is that a crime? Fall Out Boy's cover of What's This didn't sound exactly like Danny Elfman, My Chemical Romance's cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You didn't sound exactly like Mariah Carey. And everyones fine with those covers. Also, Kurt Cobains voice was guttural and grungy and often times it was hard to make out what he's saying. Especially in Smells Like Teen Spirit. Stop giving Imagine Dragons crap for not getting the lyrics and tune exactly right.

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SlytherinPride149 He quite literally forgot the lyrics to a song he said was by one of his favourite bands. If you can't tell the insincerity in this band then there's honestly something wrong with you.

FR ppl are hating so much kurt didn't even like the song, plus he would've enjoyed covers being made

NO HE WOULDN'T, FUCK OFF PEOPLE! STOP SAYING '' KURT WOULD..'' , YOU DONT KNOW SHIT SO STFU!

I think I know a lot more than you about NIRVANA and COBAIN

Rick Grimes Cool

Platon Emil Kurt hated himself for going mainstream. Imagine Dragons is a perfect example of many of the things Kurt hated.

xWolfyx This is just my opinion.... I don't really think that we can know what kurt would hated and loved! These are stuff that only kurt can say and no one else! By knowing some facts about Kurt, doesn't mean you can just put words in his mouth and be totally sure about it!

THANK YOU SOMEONE WHO IS RESPECTFUL IN THIS HELL CALLED COMMENT SECTION

ImmortalPancakes LOL Yeh, what a tough life these poor guys have.... To learn the lyrics would just be asking too much!

465marko Says the one infront of his computer screen doing nothing. Stop being a hypocrite and think realistically. You do not have a music career do you now.

ImmortalPancakes Have you ever worked a day in your life?

ImmortalPancakes I'll tell you what, the day these guys make some decent music, I'll cut them some slack and they can make all the mistakes they want. If it's "realistic" to think that they work too hard to remember the lyrics to "smells like teen spirit", then realistically I think the singer's an idiot.

That paper is usually the setlist.

Hunter HU are u sure?:D It very looks like he forgot the lyrics :P

Leon K. Yes, some bands tape the setlist to the stage so they won't forget the correct order of the songs.

yeah thats the setlist bands tape it to the stage

That's probably the setlist

Josh Ludwick he most likely forgot the lyrics and he went to go look for them by the drums, then he went back to sing them. Props to the guitar player for saving his ass

He also started singing before the solo ended

Really, this is his best song tho.

It's not. "A mullato , an albino , a mosquito, my labido" That is the right text

Jake Lawrence Yeah I know that the right text is: a mulato, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. But this guy didnt sing this text thats the point

***** meh, I'm sorry. Fuck my english I just learned it in school. ^^' *germans cant speak english*

he did sing it correctly, I re watched it and he said it right

Elijah Maximoff Oh okay ^^ thanx

Okay

It wasn't meant to be a serious attempt really, I was there and it just sounded like they wanted to do a song that they enjoy :)

You are right about the vocals. His vocals just sounded completely stupid in this song!

the recording is not good enough....the grunge in the singers voice is not audible for that reason...otherwise he has a very powerful and raspy voice

Let alone the band.

+Brennan Persing he's not talking about the band. He's talking about the people at the concert

+Nicholas Wernsing Yeah, that's why I said "let alone the band". -_-

+Nicholas Wernsing And I was talking about knowing Nirvana, a band, not a clothing brand

I mean... I'm 14, but I grew up listening to this music, mostly cuz my older siblings. But them... They grew up listening to Imagine Dragons, so... Not hating on them, but they most likely wouldn't hear real rock. I like ID, but I wouldn't consider them real rock...

^^Hallelujah! (I would give you an amen, but that was a little too perfect for an amen.)

well they did say they'd never played that song together before so it's understandable that mistakes are bound to happen

I don't think Kurt's is legendary. And I think Dan Reynolds is not Kurt so he never would sing like him and his band never would make music like Nirvana. There are different styles.

It is not up for debate whether or not Kurt Cobain is legendary. History of music and rock n roll simply backs that.

Walnut Spice yeah for real, how would anyone know what Kurt would've wanted, unless it was Kurt himself

Jared Davis "quite" quite what?

KURT is the ONE.... Other's are singer's!!!!