Big Me by Foo Fighters Song Info
This song is about being dumped. Lead Foo Dave Grohl broke it down: "Girl meets boy, boy falls in love, girl tells him to f--k off!" The video is a takeoff on Mentos commercials. They are made in Europe, and the commercials had a campy feel that became a big part of pop culture in the US. In each spot, someone gets a moment of inspiration after eating a mint and is then able to overcome some obstacle. In one spot, a woman's car is boxed in, so she gets some burly construction workers to pick it up and move it for her. In another, a kid acts like a roadie to get backstage at a concert. The video shows the band in similar situations, solving problems with the aid of their own special candy called Foo-tos. Unfortunately for The Foo Fighters, Mentos make great projectiles and for years fans would throw the candy at them when they played this. It won the 1996 MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video. Grohl wrote this and many other songs on the album when he was still the drummer for Nirvana. Kurt Cobain knew he wanted to pursue projects outside of Nirvana, and had no problem with it. This song was often covered by Weezer when the Foo Fighters and Weezer toured together in 2005. The Foo Fighters released an acoustic version with Petra Haden singing with Dave Grohl for their 2006 live CD Skin and Bones. In the video for the Foo Fighters song "Monkey Wrench," which Grohl directed, a soothing version of "Big Me" plays as elevator music. Grohl commissioned the electronic act The Moog Cookbook, which had covered "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to his liking, to create this rendition for the video. The full electro version of "Big Me" can be heard on the Moog Cookbook compilation album Bartell.
