"Doesn't Remind Me" is a song by the American

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supergroup

Audioslave Audioslave was an American Rock music, rock supergroup (music), supergroup formed in Glendale, California, in 2001. The four-piece band consisted of Soundgarden's lead singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine memb ...

, released in July 2005 as the third single from their second

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''. The song was nominated for a

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for

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at the

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Music video

Directed by

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, the award-winning music video for "Doesn't Remind Me" starts off with a blurred image of an

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poster tacked to a wall of a young boy's bedroom as he plays with a toy fighter plane. This boy is played by Vinny Intrieri, a six-year-old boxer from

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, who lives with his mother and sister, known better by his fight name, "Kid Vicious". Shot in a documentary-like style, this fictional story explores the world of Vinny's character. Throughout the video, Vinny enjoys playing with military planes and dedicates most of his free time to his boxing training. His obsession with planes becomes clearer when the audience sees a portrait of his father, an

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pilot, who died fighting in the

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. As a result, his widowed mother has been forced to raise him and his little sister.

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said, "We were all against the war from the very beginning, but now, I think you're seeing more and more that Middle America is turning against the war for reasons that are described in this video. The real human cost, the human tally of this awful war is shown in a very subtle, very real and very humanistic way. That's why it has such a great weight to it, because it personalizes this tragedy that's happening halfway around the world." All of Vinny's training has been for an upcoming fight. In one scene he runs up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, imitating

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's famous climb in ''

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''. The music video culminates with a fight between Vinny and another boy in front of a packed crowd. Some of the footage seen is of an actual fight that Vinny fought in at

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. When the "junior match" gets underway, Vinny comes out punching. Between each of the punches, the video flashes back to images from Vinny's father's death. These images include: his father's fighter plane getting shot down over Iraq, his mother picking up the heart-breaking phone call, and the military funeral ceremony. The entire segment ends with Vinny winning the fight and celebrating with the crowd. The video parallels the song by showing the ways in which people find ways to forget about and move on from bad things. In this case Vinny leaves behind his toy planes which remind him of his father and boxes to forget about the painful event of his death.

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's opinion about the video was, "I think a lot of other people will cry when they see it, there aren't many videos that can do that to you—and still have a blistering guitar solo and a killer, kick-ass beat...I didn't know Little League boxing existed, and it's real, little kids actually go box and people love it. It makes sense, but it's barbaric." This video is also the first Audioslave video which doesn't feature themselves performing the song. As

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explained, "It wouldn't

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a plus, it would

a minus, that story is that story, and the members of Audioslave appearing in whatever form would only take away from how amazing the story is."

Track listing

Two-track version

# "Doesn't Remind Me" (album version) # "Doesn't Remind Me" (live acoustic version from ''Sessions@AOL'')

Four-track version

# "Doesn't Remind Me" (album version) – 4:18 # "Out of Exile" (live version from ''Sessions@AOL'') – 4:55 # "Doesn't Remind Me" (radio mix) – 6:33 # "Doesn't Remind Me" (video)

Personnel

– bass *

Chris Cornell Christopher John Cornell ( Boyle; July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and the primary lyricist for the rock music, rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a ...

– vocals *

– guitar *

Brad Wilk Bradley Joseph Wilk (born September 5, 1968) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine (1991–2000, 2007–2011, 2019–2024), Audioslave (2001–2007, 2017), and Prophets of Rage (201 ...

– drums *Jason Gossman – assistant engineer *Dan Leffler – assistant engineer * Brendan O'Brien – mixing *Jonny Polonsky – assistant engineer *

Rick Rubin Frederick Jay Rubin (, ; born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer. He is a co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. Rubin helped popularize hip hop by produci ...

– producer *Thom Russo – engineer *Jim Scott – engineer *Brian Virtue – engineer

Charts

Certifications

Awards

*15th Annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards – Winner "Video of the Year"

References

External links

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