“My Sister” is the centerpiece of The Juliana Hatfield Three’s 1993 Nietzschean-titled debut Become What You Are. Crazy, considering that it didn’t even have a chorus! And now, as evidenced by its MTV “Buzz Bin” distinction, Hatfield’s “My Sister” was elbowing against G N’ R for relevance. Because here was the truth about G N’ R: “You knew that they knew that rock-n-roll stardom was their birthright, that they fuckin’ deserved to be rock stars,” Hatfield recalls in her 2008 memoir When I Grow Up. ![]() “Had I earned my place on the charts next to G N’ R?” Hatfield worried. After all, Guns N’ Roses were rock legends-the biggest band in the world. As the video wound to its tragic conclusion, hitting its final wailing note as Stephanie Seymour lay “dead” in a coffin, Hatfield’s own video for “My Sister” suddenly came on. ![]() Anyone who was alive at the time remembers how omnipresent that video was, how melodramatic in its rain-soaked, nine-minute depiction of the bad romance between Axl Rose and a Victoria’s Secret model in a mullet wedding dress. In 1993, Juliana Hatfield was sitting in a hotel room watching the tail end of Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain” on MTV.
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