La letra fue inspirada, en parte, por una desafortunada noticia en la ciudad natal de Stone Temple Pilots de San Diego, California, sobre una joven desaparecida que luego fue descubierta muerta por la policía local (“And I feel, when the dogs begin to smell her…”). The video was directed by Josh Taft, who also did the videos for “Sex Type Thing” and “Lady Picture Show.” The “Plush” video got a lot of airplay on MTV and earned Stone Temple Pilots the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1993. With many grunge bands being snatched up by record labels and foisted on the public at this time, it’s understandable why critics were wary, but the Core album would later be vindicated as a classic of the era. Some critics took this as a sign of pretense, mocking it in reviews that compared the band unfavorably to the likes of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana.
Core was the only STP album where vocalist Scott Weiland was identified only by his last name. This won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal. In America, no singles from Core were made available for purchase, since Atlantic Records liked selling $16 albums more than $2 singles. This version made #39 on the US Airplay chart on Augand stirred a great deal of interest in the band, although listeners who bought the Core album expecting similarly mellow fare were in for an unpleasant surprise.
This version also turned out to be quite radio-friendly, and lots of stations started playing it. In this altered state, DeLeo and Weiland performed the song, delivering a far more relaxed and poignant version than is heard on the album. taping, as Weiland recalled, “high as zombies”. When they got to their hotel, DeLeo and Weiland both got sick, but they made it to the MTV Studios for the 6 a.m. They took a plane to New York and ingested some pills to help them sleep. The show was recorded on Decemafter the band had finished a month of concerts opening for Rage Against the Machine. Guitarist Dean DeLeo suggested that he bring his acoustic guitar so they could perform this song on the show, and the network agreed. Thanks to “Sex Type Thing”, the group was invited on the MTV metal show Headbangers Ball for an interview. The most widely broadcast version of this song is an acoustic rendition that starts with Scott Weiland saying, “This is a song called ‘Plush”.
SUBSCRIBE AND ENJOY AT STPLEGACY OFFICIAL YOUTUBE CHANNEL The song’s instantly recognizable chord structure was inspired by DeLeo’s love of Ragtime music. “It’s the most fun time to be in a band when everyone has the same ideas and everyone has the same goals”.īassist Robert DeLeo came up with the riff for this song in the back of a U-Haul truck the band was using for a local tour. “There was enthusiasm and excitement and everyone was in the room and participating creatively, artistically,” he explained. When we spoke with their drummer Eric Kretz in 2013, he said that it was a very collaborative and energetic time for the band in terms of songwriting. Like all of their songs of the era, it is a band composition.
This was STP’s breakthrough hit off of their major label debut album. Weiland has described the song as “a metaphor for a lost obsessive relationship”. At a concert in Columbus, Ohio on May 17, 2008, lead singer Scott Weiland said that he and STP drummer Eric Kretz wrote the lyrics in a hot tub after hearing the story. The lyrics were inspired, in part, by an unfortunate news story in Stone Temple Pilots’ hometown of San Diego, California about a missing young woman who was later discovered dead by local law enforcement (“And I feel, when the dogs begin to smell her…”).
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