Sour Girl is a song by Stone Temple Pilots. The single album was released on April 16, 2000. It was written by singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Dean DeLeo and released as a single from the band’s fourth album, No. 4. Scott Weiland wrote the song about his first wife, Janina Castaneda. They got married in 1994, as Stone Temple Pilots were becoming popular in America.
“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. 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 because she had finally rid her life of a man who had never been faithful.”
Sour Girl also appears on the compilation albums Thank You and Buy This. It was the only Stone Temple Pilots song from No. 4 to reach the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 78. 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. The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. To date, this remains to be the band’s only entry on the Hot 100.
Trcklist:
- Sour Girl
- Sex & Violence (live)
- Sour Girl (live)
Sour Girl by Stone Temple Pilots Lyrics
She turned away, what was she looking at?
She was a sour girl the day that she met me
Hey, what are you looking at?
She was a happy girl the day that she left me
She turned away, what was she looking at?
She was a sour girl the day that she met me
Hey, what are you looking at?
She was a happy girl the day that she left me
What would you do?
What would you do if I follow you?
What would you do? I follow
Don’t turn away, what are you looking at?
He was so happy on the day that he met her
Say, what are you looking at?
I was a superman but looks are deceiving
The roller-coaster ride’s a lonely one
I pay a ransom note to stop it from steaming
Hey, what are you looking at?
She was a teenage girl when she met me
What would you do?
What would you do if I follow you?
What would you do? I follow
What would you do? (What would you do?)
What would you do if I follow you?
What would you do? I follow
The girl got reasons
They all got reasons
What would you do? (What would you do?)
What would you do if I follow you?
What would you do? I follow
What would you do? (What would you do?)
What would you do if I follow you?
What would you do? I follow
Hey, what are you looking at?
She was a happy girl the day that she left me
The day that she left me, the day that she left me
She was a happy girl the day that she left me
The day that she left me, the day that she left me
She was a sour girl the day that she left me
Songwriters: Scott Weiland, Dean De Leo, Eric Kretz, Robert De Leo
A music video was released to accompany this single and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was a fan of the band, as the female lead. At the time the video was made, Gellar was a popular star thanks to her TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her movies Cruel Intentions and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The video was directed by David Slade, whose later work includes episodes of Hannibal, and the movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The video was nominated for Best Cinematography on MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
Stone Temple Pilots
Scott Weiland: vocals
Dean DeLeo: guitars
Robert DeLeo: bass, percussion
Eric Kretz: drums
Scott Weiland (October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015).
