The song’s refrain, rendered in wistful, wondrous harmonies, asks, “What would you do if I followed you?” Based on what he reveals as the song progresses, she’d probably quicken her pace. “She was a sour girl the day that she met me,” Weiland sings, then admits, “She was a happy girl the day that she left me.” It’s bitter irony that the one thing that finally brightens the girl’s mood is the narrator’s absence from her life. ‘Sour Girl’ was written after the collapse of my relationship with Jannina. “Everyone is convinced that it’s about my romance with Mary ,” Weiland remembered. In his 2011 autobiography Not Dead & Not For Sale, Weiland wrote about how the inspiration for “Sour Girl” was misconstrued by fans. Found on their 1999 album No.4, the acoustic-based number gave them their biggest chart success and finds Weiland and company mixing pop smarts with arrestingly honest self-recrimination.
That they could pull off a song like “Sour Girl,” which relied on musical restraint and melodic prettiness more than guitar crunch, was evidence of this. The guy even danced in his videos.Īnother thing that kept Stone Temple Pilots from being typecast was their willingness to alter their formula at regular intervals. After all, frontman Scott Weiland had more in common with the decadent glam-rockers of the early ’70s than the dour-faced singers that populated grunge. But they were a little bit too slippery to be cornered so neatly in any classifying box. Stone Temple Pilots rose to fame in the midst of the grunge era and certainly shared certain traits with some of the leading lights of that genre.
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