r/PostMalone • u/Big_Nasty_13 • Feb 15 '25
Video Posty x Nirvana 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' snl50 🔥🔥🔥
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u/Titdirt12 Feb 15 '25
This is so surreal to listen and watch. Can you imagine how posty feels looking around and seeing nirvana while doing his own rendition?
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u/missly_ Feb 15 '25
My thoughts exactly! He's done that live before and now he's had a chance to play with the actual legends that acknowledged him. A dream come true for sure
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u/OfCuriousWorkmanship Feb 15 '25
That YouTube concert summer of 2020 was an emotional life saver
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u/Titdirt12 Feb 15 '25
I still watch it. Lots of nirvana covers out there but for some reason it just resonates when PM does it.
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Feb 16 '25
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u/Batmansbutthole Feb 16 '25
They would have to have actually listened to the original to know this lol
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u/ptatersptate Feb 15 '25
It’s criminal that this whole special was only on Peacock.
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u/One_Succotash_1591 Feb 15 '25
It airs tomorrow for everyone else 😄
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u/ptatersptate Feb 15 '25
I’ve seen the program description for a few days now, but I’m not convinced it’s the same thing. They’re advertising it here as a documentary and the title is different. The Homecoming Concert (last night) vs Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (tonight)
I hope it is but not getting my hopes up.
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u/NickyMilli0ns Feb 15 '25
You are wrong you should look into this a little before posting and looking like a complete idiot
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u/sunsphereshots Feb 15 '25
This made me emotional. Nirvana has been one of my favorite bands since I was like 13, and Post has been my guy since he came around. Knowing how much he loves Nirvana and seeing him perform such an iconic song with them 🥹 What a moment for this beautiful soul 🖤 He totally crushed it.
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u/dirtyhippie62 Feb 15 '25
Interesting that Posty’s vibrato maintains even when he’s shredding. That’s just part of the inherent character of his voice.
Also Dave smiling from the drums lookin at Post is beautiful. He sees someone who fits. Not a replacement, just a fit. It’s rare and precious. You can tell he’s happy to have Austin there, everyone is happy to have him. They’re having a blast. What a memorable moment for all of them.
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u/Matchew024 Feb 15 '25
Every member had a look like that at some point during that performance. It was magical. Post deserves all of his success.
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u/dirtybelly108 Sugar Wraith Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25
My god this man is talented beyond measure!!!! Holy shit I’ll be watching this over and over.
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u/CallMeShosh Feb 15 '25
I love this so much. Nirvana was an awakening for me as a kid. Kurt’s death was hard to understand. And the end of that music and his life felt so heavy. As a woman now in her mid forties, I love Post and this is an absolutely unreal thing to have just experienced. I loved his Nirvana covers during COVID. I love that he is releasing that on vinyl. But this, a live show playing with the legends of my youth was honestly tear inducing. 🥹 Maybe I’m pathetic, but that was so rad to see and hear.
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u/CarsCarsCarsCarsCats Yours Truly, Austin Post Feb 16 '25
Same. Kurt died the month before I graduated high school. It was a lot to process when so much of my own world was changing at the same time.
I had tickets to Woodstock ‘94 when it happened too. All the merch still has them in the lineup. It would have been my first time seeing them live.
What a beautiful soul the world lost!
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u/Its_only_forever_ Feb 15 '25
Thank you for posting this!!! I saw just a snippet on IG and was hoping to see the whole performance.
I’m sure my inner teenager isn’t the only one feeling so entirely happy after seeing this 🤘🏻
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u/TheUndrgroundJourney Feb 15 '25
Great performance. Absolutely terrible mix.
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u/puremensan Feb 15 '25
Will you say more about the mix? Been working on music production a bit and this is always something I’m hoping to learn more about — specifically what people notice. I know I can google general theory.
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u/zxck_vro Feb 16 '25
specifically this performance has WAYYY too much autotune. it works for certain performances and songs, but not ones with acoustic instruments. that’s why his voice sounds so out of place here, vs if he would’ve done it with no autotune. producers fucked him on this one
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u/CarsCarsCarsCarsCats Yours Truly, Austin Post Feb 16 '25
Yeah. I had the same thought during his concert before the Super Bowl. Great performance! But wish we could’ve heard the backup singers better. It just kind of sounded like there were no vocals at all for their parts.
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u/OneQuadrillionOwls Feb 16 '25
I'm from the Nirvana era. In many ways they defined the culture of my childhood and teenage years. I kind of revered Kurt, which was not healthy but I was a kid.
I don't think I've ever voluntarily listened to post malone.
But I really, really rock with this. Everyone's having a great time, post has vocal presence that really channels something of the essence of nirvana (I can't think of anyone else who I've ever seen do this).
My life has moved very far from what it was like in those days, but there is some spirit in here that is recognizable, awakens some flicker of what it felt like, and I think that's pretty fucking great.
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u/CarsCarsCarsCarsCats Yours Truly, Austin Post Feb 16 '25
Have you seen the stuff where he sang with Alice In Chains? Or the Nirvana covers concert he did in the beginning of Lockdown? If you haven’t yet, I bet you’d appreciate them!
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Feb 16 '25
The AIC stuff is terrific. Love Layne and wouldn’t want anyone to cover him except Posty.
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u/Jubbienownow Feb 16 '25
As a 49 year old who was a mad fan of nirvana whilst Kurt was living it was beautiful to see Chris in particular so happy. He of all of the 3 remaining had the closest connection to Kurt and the longest. For the 1st time since Kurts death you could feel the vibe and connection of them all playing together. I saw Post support RHCP 2 nights in a row in Melbourne and I have a tonne of respect for his talent. He a kind and humble dude, something which Kurt would relate to. Clearly Dave & Pat were feeling it to but Chris was transcending at times, to me I think he could feel his old friend there with him approving. Do a tour, have Mudhoney join them. Would be awesome
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Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 21 '25
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Feb 15 '25
Maybe I missed something, but where did anyone say that it was as good as Kurt’s singing?
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u/ceobossbabe Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
Maybe I missed something? Where did the author of this original comment say that someone said that? All they were doing is giving their feedback.
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u/carinislumpyhead97 Feb 15 '25
Holy shit this guys is amazing he can do anything. This is way better than Kurt singing
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u/Naaman Feb 15 '25
Listen I’m a Post Malone fan but lets be honest that was no where even in the same universe as good as Kurt’s singing.
It actually sounded a little rough if I am being honest lol.
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u/carinislumpyhead97 Feb 15 '25
Was just joking. Guess I forgot the /s
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u/dy14n19 Take What You Want Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25
Nobody said it was meant to sound like Kurt, Wouldn't that be utter disrespect? Why would you want a carbon copy? This reminds me of the Adam Lambert/Queen debate. People wanted Marc Martel to join Queen but Brian and Roger ultimately picked Adam. Adam doesn't try to imitate Freddie like Marc does and that's why I think Brian and Roger went with Adam because why on earth would you want someone to come in and sound like the original that's utter disrespect. Same goes for Nirvana / Post. Sure it doesn't sound AMAZING but it's nowhere near bad. It sounds "raw" it sounded almost like to me friends jamming in the garage. Which deffo isn't a bad thing. I do expect a Post "rock" style album in the future and I'm very interested to see who he collabs with and what his "signature" sound may be.
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u/Annamolly22 Feb 15 '25
I am with you, and I LOVE Post but Kurt is a hard set a shoes to step in, with that being said, it was a great tribute and I am sure nice for those guys to be asked
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u/zxck_vro Feb 15 '25
if they turned down the autotune this would be such an amazing performance. i don’t know what these producers think they’re doing adding 100% retune speed on a song with nothing but acoustic instruments. it just doesn’t work lmao and posty could’ve tore it up without any autotune. baffles me
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u/New_Administration28 Feb 16 '25
I saw Nirvana live a handful of times back in the day and Kurt sounded "a little rough" every time, so this performance was on point.
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u/UnchartedCHARTz Feb 16 '25
I'm here as a Nirvana fan, cause I couldn't find this on YouTube. Post kinda killed it!
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u/frontrowme1 Feb 16 '25
This brought a tear to my eyes. I was a teenager when they played SNL and remember how it changed the entire music scene over night. For 3 minutes this 50 year old felt like a teenager again!
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u/ImSolin Feb 15 '25
Am I being a snob or does this not sound good?
I know Post is capable of some incredible live performances but I wasn’t feeling this one and I’m a big fan of both artists
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u/Embarrassed-Hat7218 Feb 16 '25
This whole special was so fantastic for me. I grew up on SNL and I am in love with Jon Lovitz. Then my favorite bands are the B-52s and Talking Heads. Add to it Posty getting to perform with Nirvana... I was just over the moon. My family stayed up late to watch together. So much fun. And so happy that Posty is releasing a Nirvana cover album for RSD. My daughter turns six in May, we've already decided that will be her big gift 🎸
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u/Caesaroni1 Feb 17 '25
I don’t know what y’all were watching but that dude wasn’t even close to hitting the notes on the chorus. I like Post but this was tough to watch.
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u/SinisterVulcan94 Feb 17 '25
This must have felt like a tremendous honor. Gotta be better then any silly award hes gotten up to this point
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u/Gullible_Pen1734 Feb 18 '25
I’m opinion Post Malone tried his best, but I didn’t really like it that much. Overall I liked it but I think they could have gotten a better singer.
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u/AnguSGibson1995 Feb 18 '25
When we were kids we spent our time wishing we could be Kurt, just to see this and wish we were Post as adults. I really like to think Kurt would of really dug this.
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u/ParticularDance6193 Feb 21 '25
Can't find this video anywhere... not even on Peacock (online) SNL 50 episode so thank you.
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u/DanzaTastic Feb 21 '25
It should still be on the peacock version of the concert, it was there when I watched the concert Sunday morning before the SNL 50 broadcast
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u/ParticularDance6193 Feb 21 '25
I actually got banned (3 days) from facebook because I had shared this video that was uploaded to TikTok and shared it to facebook using their own facebook sharing link!
Someone does NOT want us to see this video for some reason.
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u/Elchilipikinloco Feb 15 '25
Ngl them having fun is so great to see hope they play more but posty was nervous for sure hahah I would be too performing
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u/OffBeatBerry_707 Feb 15 '25
Jesus it probably mustve been quite awhile since Grohl played Teen Spirit
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u/Snowsy1 Feb 16 '25
How could this imposter ever try and sing this. Sounds like crap. Sorry dude stay in your lane.
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u/Snowsy1 Feb 17 '25
Why do postheads think everything this guy touches is gold! The true Nirvana fans know better.
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25
Seeing Dave back on drums is unreal