Sour Girl
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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album No. 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side |
"Sex & Violence (live)" "Sour Girl (live)" | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | April 16, 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock, psychedelic rock | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:16 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) |
Music: Dean DeLeo Lyrics: Scott Weiland | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||||||||||
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"Sour Girl" is a song by Stone Temple Pilots. The song was written by singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Dean DeLeo for their band's fourth album, aptly titled No. 4.
"Everyone is convinced that it's about my romance with Mary [Forsberg, second wife]," Weiland writes in his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale. "But everyone is wrong. 'Sour Girl' was written after the collapse of my relationship with Jannina [Castaneda, first wife]. It's about her. 'She was a sour girl the day that she met me,' I wrote. 'She was a happy girl the day she left me… I was a superman, but looks are deceiving. The rollercoaster ride's a lonely one. I pay a ransom note to stop it from steaming.' The ransom note, of course, was the fortune our divorce was costing me. And the happy state, which I presumed to be Jannina's mood, was due to the fact that she had finally rid her life of a man who had never been faithful."[1]
"Sour Girl" also appears on the compilation albums Thank You and Buy This. It was the only Stone Temple Pilots song to reach the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 78.[2]
Charts
"Sour Girl" was one of STP's biggest hits since the Core and Purple era. Billboard ranked "Sour Girl" at #88 on its list of the 100 Best Rock Songs of the 2000s.[3] The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
| (2000) | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] | 78 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks[5] | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[6] | 3 |
Track listing
- Sour Girl
- Sex & Violence (Live)
- Sour Girl (Live)
References
- ↑ Not Dead and Not For Sale (Scribner, 2010), pp138–139
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stone-temple-pilots-mn0000626463/awards
- ↑
- ↑ "Billboard Hot 100 – Stone Temple Pilots". Retrieved 2013-03-08.
- ↑ "Mainstream Rock Tracks – Stone Temple Pilots". Retrieved 2013-03-08.
- ↑ "Alternative Songs – Stone Temple Pilots". Retrieved 2013-03-08.
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