Let me know if you guys can’t see this. YT filed a copyright strike or something on this.
I like that this song is not about anything at all, but hella people have tried to ascribe some sort of deep meaning to it. It’s just a kick ass song that sounds sick as hell. Cornell has stated that the song is just singing words for the sake of singing words.
So what exactly in the video needed to be censored? Also, RIP Chris Cornell.
Here’s a pretty good summary of the changes https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=3065
That page says the CG effects were deemed too disturbing. The rumor that I read somewhere was that there were complaints about people sucked up into the sun resembling incidents from 9/11 of people falling from the skyscrapers.
I remember when it first came out and there wasn’t much CGI in it. Then about a month later, the CGI version was released. I swear they said that the reason was that the CGI, which was still pretty cutting edge at the time, wasn’t completed on time, so they released it without it. I never heard anything about it being censored. But I suppose I could have misremembered it.
Watch all 3 versions side by side:
Apparently the daytime/censored versions are harder to find now.
