"Sour Girl" is a song by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. It was written by singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Dean DeLeo and released as the second single from the band's fourth studio album, No. 4 (1999). "Sour Girl" was one of the band's most successful singles, and their only song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background
Scott Weiland talked about the song in his autobiography Not Dead & Not for Sale:
"Everyone is convinced that it's about my romance with Mary [Forsberg, second wife]," "But everyone is wrong. 'Sour Girl' was written after the collapse of my relationship with Jannina [sic]. 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 [sic] 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 is the only Stone Temple Pilots song to reach the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 78.[4]
"Sour Girl" was one of STP's biggest hits since the Core and Purple era of the early 1990s. Billboard ranked "Sour Girl" at #88 on its list of the 100 Best Rock Songs of the 2000s.[6] The song peaked at number four on the BillboardMainstream Rock Tracks chart and number three on the BillboardModern Rock Tracks chart. To date, this remains to be the band's only entry on the Hot 100.
