well, Seattle, where the band recorded part of Automatic for the People) convinced Stipe to change it, saying that where she'd grown up, if such a Precision F-Strike appeared on any album, it wouldn't have been put on shelves (or at least would've gotten a "Parental Advisory" label). The song actually says "Fuck Me Kitten", which was in fact its second title note its first was "Hey Love", before Meg Ryan (who was filming Sleepless in Seattle in. The allusion to the ad here ties into the album's release during Bush's reelection bid, noting the administration's perceived failures both in the rest of the line and in the next one ("smack, crack" referring to the War on Drugs, and "tie another one to your rack" referring to lax gun control). Call-Back: The opening line of "Drive" ("smack, crack, bushwhacked") nods back to a newspaper advertisement Michael Stipe put out in 1988 condemning the George H.Breather Episode: Word of God states that "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" is an invoked case of this, being an upbeat-sounding song in an album that's otherwise pretty bleak, both musically and lyrically, for the most part.Bookends: "Monty Got a Raw Deal" begins and ends with the line "Monty, this seems strange to me.".
As such, the sense of finality throughout the song is as hopeful as it is tragic. Bittersweet Ending: The album closes out with "Find the River", a song narrated by a dying old man Passing the Torch to the new generation.Beige Prose: Done intentionally on "Everybody Hurts", a sharp contrast from Michael Stipe's typically abstract and metaphor-laden lyrical style, in order to more effectively reach the band's teenage audience with its anti-suicide message.It was filmed at the intersection of Interstates 10 and 35 in San Antonio, Texas, while I-10 was being turned into a double-decker freeway, and staged as a gridlocked traffic jam. At the Crossroads: Could be invoked as a metaphor in the music video for "Everybody Hurts".An Aesop: The message of "Everybody Hurts" is "Don't kill yourself.".1" (2:13)Įvery streetlight reveals the trope in reverse:
Michael Stipe would later write "Let Me In" (off of the band's next album, Monster) in Cobain's memory.Īutomatic for the People was backed by six singles: "Drive", "Man on the Moon", "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", "Everybody Hurts", "Nightswimming", and "Find the River".
On a somewhat darker note, this album is known for the fact that Kurt Cobain of Nirvana listened to it shortly before committing suicide in 1994, similarly to what Iggy Pop's The Idiot was to Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis back in 1980. Since its release, it has sold over 18 million copies worldwide, and currently holds the position of being the 60th best-selling album in the United Kingdom (just barely high enough to make it onto Wikipedia's list on the category). It would end up being the second-best-selling album of 1993 in the UK, and would go on to be certified septuple-platinum in the UK and Canada, quadruple-platinum in the US and Australia, triple-platinum in the Netherlands, double-platinum in Austria, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, platinum in France and New Zealand, quintuple-gold in Germany, and gold in Argentina. The end result was R.E.M.'s biggest commercial success, topping the charts in the UK and New Zealand, and peaking at No.
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