Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity.
However, I propose that with the allusive title, Smith begs us to compare the content and form of both works, to not just see Kierkegaard as some vague figure who generally touched on similar concepts, but to deeply examine where the lyrics mirror, contradict, react to, and are shaped by Kierkegaard’s own words. EitherOr features the inclusion of new instrumentation, like bass, percussion, keyboards, and electrical electric guitar all of them performed by Smith himself.At the period Smith stated, I got my own 8-track and things to perform my solo things on and I furthermore obtained a drum collection and I lent a striper so today Im doing songs that have striper and stuff. Steven Paul Smith (Aug October 21, 2003), known professionally as Elliott Smith, was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Yet when people talk about the connection, they usually conclude that the depressed Smith was simply attracted to the musings of a depressed Kierkegaard, as if their depression was the only similarity. Hanft and Jason Mason co-wrote the film with Elliott Smith.
When Elliott Smith, the tragic pop acoustic singer songwriter from Portland, titled his third album Either/Or, he was deliberately linking himself to Søren Kierkegaard, the existentialist philosopher of mid-1800s Copenhagen, and his book with the same title. which play MP3 digital format songs that users download from the Internet using their. Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Life View in Elliott Smith's Either/Or