50+ Music<p>"Smells Like Nirvana" is a song parody written and performed by American mu#sician <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WeirdAlYankovic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdAlYankovic</span></a>. A parody of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Nirvana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nirvana</span></a>'s song "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SmellsLikeTeenSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmellsLikeTeenSpirit</span></a>", it was released as the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/leadSingle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadSingle</span></a> from Yankovic's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OffTheDeepEnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OffTheDeepEnd</span></a> album in April 1992. "Smells Like Nirvana" was written during a three-year career low for Yankovic after the financial failure of his film <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UHF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UHF</span></a>, but captured the quickly-rising popularity of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/grunge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grunge</span></a> and Nirvana's success. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>