- Seether (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Seether
Artist = Veruca Salt
from Album =American Thighs
Released = 1994
Format =Compact Disc ,7-inch
Recorded = 1994
Genre = alternative
Length = 3:16
Label =Minty Fresh
Writer =Nina Gordon
Producer =Brad Wood
Chart position =
Last single =
This single = "Seether"
(1994)
Next single ="Seether" is a single by the American alternative band Veruca Salt. It appears on their 1994 debut album "
American Thighs ". This is the song from which the South African bandSeether took its name.Interpretations
As with most rock songs, speculation ensued among fans as to the meaning of the lyrics, particularly over exactly to whom the song's character of "the Seether" refers. The song "
Volcano Girls ," does include the line, "The Seether's Louise" (i.e. Veruca Salt vocalistLouise Post ), however, this could be in jest. This was borrowed from "The Beatles " song "Glass Onion " in which the identity of The Walrus is sung as "The Walrus was Paul."According to an unofficial Veruca Salt FAQ (http://www.chrispy.net/~cheeks/FAQ.html), "Nina Gordon wrote Seether after having a discussion with someone and disagreeing so violently that she wanted to bash her face in. Simply put, Seether is about anger, a seething anger, hence the name. It has been said that it's more about a woman's anger, the kind of anger 'a woman is not supposed to show.'"
According to
Shaun Morgan of the bandSeether , the word "seether" is allegedly used in the UK to refer to avagina . It is from this song that the band Seether got their name, and they use an X-ray diagram of a woman's reproductive system as a logo for T-shirts and merchandise.Chart performance
* Billboard Modern Rock Tracks: #8cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Singles&model.vnuArtistId=36925&model.vnuAlbumId=196579| title="Artist Chart History/Veruca Salt"|publisher="www.billboard.com"|accessdate=2008-04-13]
* Australia ARIA Top 100 # 34
References
External links
* [http://www.verucasalt.com/ Official artist website]
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/verucasalt Veruca Salt] at "Rolling Stone "
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