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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Core | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Sin" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, cassette, vinyl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Grunge, alternative rock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 5:13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Music: Robert DeLeo Lyrics: Scott Weiland & Eric Kretz |
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| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Plush" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. It is one of the band's biggest hits, and was released as the second single from the band's debut studio album, Core (see 1992 in music).
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The song's chord structure was inspired by Robert DeLeo's love of ragtime music, and its lyrics were loosely based on a newspaper article Weiland had read about a girl who had been found dead in an area outside of San Diego. Weiland has also said that the song's lyrics are a metaphor for a failed relationship.
The song was released in 1993 as Core's second single and became a major rock radio hit in the U.S., peaking at #1 on the Album Rock Tracks and #9 on the Modern Rock Tracks. "Plush" won in the category of "Best Hard Rock Performance" at the 1994 Grammy Awards. The music video also earned the band an MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1994. "Plush" remains one of the biggest rock hits of the 1990s, and is still commonly heard on radio stations today. In 2004, this song was featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack on Radio X. The song also appeared as a playable song in 2010 music video game Rock Band 3.
The award-winning music video, directed by Josh Taft, was released in 1993 and had heavy rotation on MTV. It combines a visual interpretation of the song's lyrics with footage of a red-haired Weiland singing with the band as a lounge act in an empty bar. There are two different versions of this video, with minor but very noticeable differences. For example, in the version that appears on the Thank You Bonus DVD, the last shot of the video is a woman looking at a mirror image of herself and viewing her whole body while the mirror image drifts away. In another version, she's looking at a mirror image of her face, with water (possibly rain) dripping down the reflection of the mirror.
Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo performed an impromptu acoustic version of "Plush" on the VH1 show Headbangers Ball that was also very popular. It was originally only available on a CD single from the United Kingdom for their single, "Creep", but is now featured on the band's "greatest hits" compilation, Thank You, along with the original electric version.
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 9 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 18 |
| UK Singles Chart | 23 |
| Canadian RPM Singles Chart | 21 |
| Preceded by "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single June 26, 1993 |
Succeeded by "Big Gun" by AC/DC |
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