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Everyone loves a love triangle, right? Just as long as you’re not the one on the outs. Well, today’s song was written by Stone Temple Pilots. Frontman Scott Weiland wrote the lyrics about a love triangle between he and his fiancee and the third party, who wasn’t human. The song was a massive hit on the rock charts in the 90s after STP’s first album blew up and critics trashed the band, but they had the last laugh with this hit that described Scott’s battle with an addiction that had a tragic result.
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Today we are taking a deep dive into the story of Scott Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots, and their 1994 hit interstate love song. mFrom the outset, it seemed like the critics had it in for Scott Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots. Launched into rockstardom with their debut album Core, this 90s alt-rock band garnered massive media attention. And most of it was pretty heartless. Labeled pretenders, rip-off artists, and grunge opportunists, really, their biggest crime was showing up at the party a little late. Core was released on September 29, 1992, a full year after Nirvana’s Nevermind kicked the doors open for the media’s grunge feeding frenzy.
Pearl Jam’s Ten hit a month earlier on August 27, 1991 and Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger arrived in stores on October 8. Alice in Chains’ Dirt actually came out the same day as STP’s Core, but with 1990’s Facelift already locked in and the benefit of being Seattle-born, they were just as legit as the rest. At the peak of STP’s early success, Weiland often sang with a deep, baritone vocal style that got him repeatedly roasted for sounding too much like Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder.
But despite the critical contempt, Core was an incredible album, raw and heavy-hitting. Powered by the singles Sex Type Thing, Plush, and Creep, along with the radio promo release Wicked Garden, Core success only poured more gasoline on the media’s burning distain.
Plush in particular was a mega-hit. And one the band didn’t want to be defined by it. So, in anticipation of its success... yeah, they knew it was going to kill... they refused to make it their first single and buried it deep in the record, as track 9.
Even so, this song that started out as a simple guitar exercise with a country riff and some ragtime chords, rocketed up the rock charts to #1. Plush inundated the airwaves. It was everywhere. But despite being a people’s favorite, the media bashing continued. In fact, in a January 1994 Rolling Stone poll, Stone Temple Pilots was voted both the Best New Band by readers and the Worst New Band by critics. But as we know, the the record buying public always win .