Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn Premiere "Relator" Video

"Relator," the first video from Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's collaborative album Break Up (due September 8th), premiered on Yahoo! Music last night. In May, Yorn told Rolling Stone he had a dream that instructed him, " 'I have to make a record inspired by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot.' So who is Brigitte Bardot? And I was like, Scarlett Johansson could be the Brigitte Bardot type. So I reached out to her and she was into it and we did it."

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The duo recorded the album in 2006, before Johansson began working on her first album Anywhere I Lay My Head, an LP of Tom Waits covers. "The idea [was] of two people vocalizing their relationship through duets," Johansson told Parade. "I always thought of it as just a small project between friends. It perfectly captured where I was in my life at the time." As Rock Daily reported in January, Johansson covered Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the He's Just Not That Into You soundtrack.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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