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Hole Doll Parts
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Love's distinctive vocals and simple composition are heavily conveyed in the album version of the song.
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" Doll Parts " is a song by American alternative rock band Hole , written by vocalist and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love . The song was released as the band's sixth single and second from their second studio album, Live Through This , in November 1994 to accompany the band's North American tour. It was also the first single to be released following the death of bassist Kristen Pfaff in June 1994.
Courtney Love wrote the song in the fall of 1991 soon after she met Kurt Cobain , and has admitted that its lyrics were about her insecurity of his romantic interest in her. [5] It went on to become one of the band's most popular songs, peaking on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks at number 4, and is considered by fans and critics alike as one of Hole's signature tracks. [6]
In September 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the track 208 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . [7]
Courtney Love is known to have written "Doll Parts" as early as November 1991, performing it acoustically at a Hole concert in Massachusetts . [8] The song developed into its final form less than two weeks later and became a regular number on setlists during the band's tour of Europe and the United Kingdom the following month. Journalist Everett True also noted that Love performed an acoustic version of the song to him over a telephone at 4 a.m. during the band's tour. [9]
The first known studio version of "Doll Parts" was recorded on November 19, 1991 at Maida Vale Studios as part of Hole's first radio session with BBC DJ John Peel . [10] A second version of the song was recorded on March 27, 1993 with Mark Goodier , another BBC radio host, during a short three-date tour of England. In October 1993, the band recorded the album version of the song as part of the Live Through This sessions at Triclops Studios in Atlanta, Georgia .
"Doll Parts" thematically focuses on themes of love, rejection, and fear of unrequited romance. [11] Speaking to Uncut magazine in 2010, Love stated that the song was specifically about Kurt Cobain , [5] who she thought "didn't like [her]." [12] Love divulged that she wrote the song while staying at the Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment of Joyce Linehan, a music executive, [13] and that she had written most of it while locked in a bathroom. [11] Love has said that the line "dog beg" was worked into the first verse because there was literally a dog in the apartment begging for food. [5]
I had to write most of the lyrics on my arm in Sharpie as I ran out of paper. People were pounding on the door as I wrote it. It was played for the first time about an hour later, at the Virgin megastore in Boston . It was about a boy [Cobain], whose band had just left town, who I'd been sleeping with, who I heard was sleeping with 2 other girls, it was my way of saying 'You’re a fucking idiot if you don’t choose ME, and here is all the desire and fury and love that I feel for you'. Good songs don’t always come in 20 minutes but the force was strong and that one did. Anyway, I married that guy. [11]
Both the title of the song and the lyrical meaning are inspired by an encounter Love had with Kurt Cobain in 1991 prior to their relationship and marriage. Love had sent Cobain "a heart-shaped box scented with perfume and inside a porcelain doll, three dried roses, a miniature teacup and shellac-covered seashells" [14] to apologize for their first meeting in May 1991, where Love infamously wrestled with Cobain. The box, purchased in an antique store in New Orleans, was later the influence for the Cobain-penned Nirvana song, " Heart-Shaped Box ." The lyrics reflect Love's initial feelings about Cobain having felt rejected by his lack of communication, which is most acutely conveyed in the line: "he only loves those things because he loves to see them break."
After Cobain's death in April 1994, "Doll Parts" took on a more tragic meaning with Love giving anguished performances of the song on tour. Drummer Patty Schemel has said that "certain things would remind her, a lot of the time on-stage, and it would just come out. Certain lyrics had a lot more meaning." [15]
Musically, the song is composed of only three chords: A, Cmaj7, and G. In retrospect, Love noted the song's musical simplicity— "I still don't understand why that one song with just three chords is such a big thing, but it's definitely got some good lyrics." [5] On both Live Through This and the individual single, the song is credited on record as written by Hole as a band, however according to BMI 's website, the official author is solely Courtney Love. [4]
"Doll Parts" was released on November 15, 1994 in the United States as the second single from Hole's second studio album, Live Through This (1994). [16] It was released as a CD single , cassette and 7" on DGC Records , with alternate tracklistings for each pressing. Upon its release in Europe, three CD singles were released on DGC, Geffen Records and City Slang , with additional live recordings.
The song became Hole's highest-charting song in the United States, peaking at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay. [17] "Doll Parts" peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in December 1994 [18] and at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1995. [18] The song later charted on Canada's RPM Singles Chart , [19] the UK Singles Chart , [20] Belgian Singles Chart in Wallonia [21] and the French Singles Chart . [22]
The music video for "Doll Parts" was directed by Samuel Bayer [23] —who had also directed music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana—and who Hole commissioned following the death of bassist Kristen Pfaff . Jennifer Finch of L7 is featured as the bassist in the video. Bayer has said that he wanted it "evoke the feeling of death" [24] and used ideas conceived by Courtney Love throughout the video.
Love's ideas included a large amount of doll imagery, herself "in a babydoll dress looking demure while playing guitar on a bed" and "walking in a bleak backyard passing a children's table set for a tea party." [25] Bayer designed the garden scenes to be "decaying" and added "a hundred plaster-wrapped dolls dangling from trees." [24] Other scenes features a young blonde boy, a reference "meant to invoke Kurt [Cobain]", [26] and footage of the band performing the song. Most of the video was shot in black-and-white and interspersed with various color shots. Two edits of "Doll Parts" has been broadcast—an original edit and a "producer's version." [27]
The video for "Doll Parts" was nominated for Best Alternative Video at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards but lost to " Buddy Holly " by Weezer . [28]
English trip hop artist Tricky covered the song on his 2017 album Ununiform under the title "Doll", featuring Avalon Lurks. [29] The band Eyes Set To Kill covered the song on their album White Lotus. Miley Cyrus covered the song live on the Howard Stern Show in December 2020. [30]
All songs written by Courtney Love , except where noted.
All personnel credits adapted from Live Through This ' s liner notes. [31]
November 15, 1994 ( 1994-11-15 ) (promo)
April 1995 ( 1995-04 ) (UK)
Triclops Sound ( Marietta, Georgia , U.S.)
Hole frontwoman Courtney Love revealed in a 2020 Instagram post that she wrote "Doll Parts" in 20 minutes while in the bathroom at a friend's house party in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It was about a boy, whose band had just left town, who I'd been sleeping with, who I heard was sleeping with two other girls," she explained. "It was my way of saying 'You're a f---ing idiot if you don't choose ME, and here is all the desire and fury and love that I feel for you.'" "Good songs don't always come in 20 minutes but the force was strong and that one did," she added. "Anyway, I married that guy." The guy she's talking about is Kurt Cobain of Nirvana.
Courtney Love wrote this song in 1991 shortly after meeting Kurt Cobain; she recorded it for the first time in November that year in an acoustic performance for John Peel's show on the BBC (this version can be heard on the 1995 Ask For It EP). Hole didn't release the song on an album until Live Through This was issued in April 1994, a week after Kurt Cobain died and two months before their bass player, Krista Pfaff, died of a drug overdose. The song took on a new meaning after these losses.
In an interview with the August 2010 edition of Uncut magazine, Courtney Love said of this song: "I still don't understand why that one song with just three chords is such a big thing. But it's definitely got some good lyrics. That was a song about Kurt. I wrote it in Boston. So the line 'dog beg,' that's because there was a dog begging me for food."
Hole released their first album, Pretty On The Inside , on the small label Caroline in 1991. It earned them a deal with the major label DGC, but it took a while for them to complete their next album because Courtney Love was busy being a mother and the high-profile wife of Kurt Cobain. When the album, Live Through This , was finally ready, DGC issued " Miss World " as the first single in March 1994, shortly before the death of Cobain. When news broke that Cobain was dead, promotion for the single and album ground to a halt. In August, Hole started touring again and DGC resumed promotion, with "Doll Parts" as a single. Love was vilified in the press and often accused of abetting Cobain's drug habit, but the song and album were well received. "Doll Parts" gradually earned airplay and slowly climbed the charts, reaching #58 on the Hot 100 in January 1995. That summer, when Hole joined the Lollapalooza tour, they were the hottest act on the bill. The next singles from the album, "Violet" and "Softer, Softest," also got solid airplay, but another Hole album didn't appear until 1998. In the interim, Love did time in rehab and starred opposite Woody Harrelson in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt .
Samuel Bayer, who did Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit ," directed the video for this song, which was shot six months after Kurt Cobain's suicide. In the video, we see stark shots of Courtney Love playing guitar on a bare mattress and outdoors at a creepy tea party surrounded by disfigured dolls. A child representing a young Cobain shows up, playing with one of the dolls and leaving the room at the end of the clip. The video is meant to convey the feeling of death.
The album title comes from a line in the movie Gone With The Wind , which is one of Courtney Love's favorites: "I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again."
"Doll Parts" got the attention of Joni Mitchell, who told Guitar World : "There's a line in a Courtney song that stopped me: 'I fake it so real, I am beyond fake.' That, at least, has an element of truth and revelation in it."
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Dog beg
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, they really do
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, and I do too
I want to be the girl with the most cake
I love him so much, it just turns to hate
I fake it so real I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache
I am doll parts
Bad skin
Doll heart
It stands
For knife
For the rest
Of my life
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, they really do
Yeah, they really want you
They really want you, but I do too
I want to be the girl with the most cake
He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
I fake it so real I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache
Someday you will ache like I ache
And someday you will ache like I ache!
And someday you will ache like I ache!
And someday you will ache like I ache!
And someday you will ache like I ache!
Someday you will ache like I ache
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