Video Hangover: Puddle Of Mudd - "She Fucking Hates Me"
Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards.
"She Fucking Hates Me"
Puddle of Mudd, 2002
All right, Puddle of Mudd - you don't like me, and I don't like you. Let's just get that out of the way up front.
For a band that spells mud with two d's, the Puddle take what might, in some nu-metal circles, be considered a sophisticated approach to male grief and social disenfranchisement at the hands of capricious high-school girls. Girls like Lila Garrity, who would NEVER EVER HOOK UP WITH YOU, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU SHOW UP DRUNK AT HER CHURCH. Right -- so it's not easy being rejected by anyone, and boys, being somewhat blunt instruments to begin with, require space in which to grieve in their own unique way. Like a classroom, for example, or the kitchen at the Alamo Freeze. Puddle of Mudd totally gets it, and that's why they're able to write such insightful lyrics. But the last thing I expected was to see QB1 pull a Richie Tenenbaum and run weeping off the field. He tries to tackle his own running back, for fuck's sake! Coach Taylor would be apoplectic (even though, deep down, he'd be super-sympathetic about it, and much more understanding than, say, your Dad, who is also an alcoholic). The point of the story is, you've got some maturing to do if you think you're going to make it to State this year.
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Posted at 1:43 PM by Jon in Video, Video Hangover
Tags: Puddle Of Mudd
Puddle Of Mudd is. the. worst.
No they're not.
But they're awful.
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ha! hilarious choice.
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always thought this song sounded exactly like "summer nights" from grease i.e. "summer lovin' had me a blast" just like PoM's "met a girl, thought she was grand".
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I don't remember this video at all, but how fucking horrible is this song.
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can we please have no more cock rock song postings
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God everytime I hear this song all I can say is "Jesus he's really aping Kurt Cobain with that lead vocal, huh?"
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i'm still embarrassed to say that i thought this was a nirvana song the first time i heard it. such a stupid kid.
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The opening shot of the vdeo is also pretty evidently copying the opening of the Teen Spirit video, with the foot tapping.
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What is going on with the website? For the last two days on two computers everything has been discombobulated.
This song rips off the grease theme song.
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they opened for some band i saw years ago, and the bassist threw his water bottle in the crowd and it hit me in the chest. puddle of ddouches.
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Forget the "aping Kurt Cobain" that IS the riff from Suicidal Tendencies "I Saw Your Mommy"
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Holy shit, it totally is. Same tempo and everything.
The only real difference is that the Suicidal Tendancies song is fucking rad. The Pudd of Mudd song is not so much.
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Raise your hand if you hated this and Limp Bizkit when it first came out. Anyone? I did, therefore my music taste is superior to yours.
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Oh shit... I just remembered some stuff about these guys. They were Fred Durst's "discovery", and he clearly was guiding them every step of the way as a tubby impresario. Maybe he got to fuck them, like that manager of the Backstreet Boys. Anyway, Fred Durst had zero cred in underground culture, so he started wearing punk rock shirts and trying to name-check Fugazi and stuff like that, in a desperate grab for punk cred. He started wearing this Minor Threat shirt wherever he went, and then all of a sudden his proteges Puddle of Mudd are also wearing Minor Threat shirts in videos on TV. How contrived can you get?
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You guys are losers. This might be THE best rock band of the millennium. Long live Wesley.
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Better than Nickelback?
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You lock me up inside your dirty cage but I'm alone inside my mind!
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Thanks for the FNL references. Very few people probably got them, unfortunately, but those that do (such as I) cherish them enormously.
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I hadn't seen the video before, but I remember when this song first came out. There were a lot of men I hated, so I couldn't help loving this song . . . every time I heard it on the radio, in my heart I dedicated it to all the jerks out there. I know it's terribly bitter of me, but there's a special place in my heart for hate songs.
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I fucking hate this song.
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the burger guy looks just like Brad in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, am i right?
when a friend gave me this song, he gave me the censored version. it was so great!!! "she [awk pause] hates me! she [awk pause] hates me! la la la la!"
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Oh yes, the censored version . . . that was what they played on the radio . . . I kinda liked that awkward pause. I never heard the real version until I downloaded it this year, and I didn't know whether I liked it better with the profanity intact or not.
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Its always nice to know there are still bands that cater to bitter women. Oh right..its now a genre...silly me.
Seriously though, I'm glad this song slipped through my fingers.
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how hard must the other puddle of mudders laughed when wes introduced this one at the rehearsal space?? I mean, they might have held it together for the first verse, but you can't tell me they weren't doubled over by the "la la la la" part.
Awful, awful song. Great choice!
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i tried to watch this, but i had to stop.
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I guess I was one of the few cherishers of FNL references. Seriously though, where else can I go to read legit music news/amusing comments and also get shout outs to a show, that, while excellent, is centered around high school football? There can't be that much crossover between viewers and readers. So thanks, Stereogum. I appreciate you and your fantastic taste in both television and music.
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I remember being in high school when this came out and admiring the gutsiness of putting a swear in the [expletive] chorus of the song! Years later, I admired Kanye for doing the same with Golddigger. It's always cool when the censorship fundamentally changes the nature of the song. And yea, it sucks, but how can you not like it? It's an anthem for every guy who ever confused "hate" for "really doesn't care about either way, but definitely doesn't want to go out with."
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puddle of mudd is playing in my city for a summer festival we have.
needless to say i am embarrassed of my city more so than the fact that our only claim to fame is cheap trick.
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Exactly, historyman. You put it so well . . . I guess I don't really hate the guys this song reminds me of - I never knew any of them well enough for that, or really wanted to. "Great for about an hour" as this song puts it would be a bit of an overstatement for most of them. Actually, this song is more from the point of view all those annoying guys out there . . . apparently they have feelings that can be torn and ripped away, even if they act like all they want is one thing. . . . Right?
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I didn't get what the FNL references had to do with the song..
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I think the song was really meant in the spirit of humor (DUH. I.E. Grease?). Sure, they ripped off Nirvana a tad, but I prefer to think of that as musical influence. How many hip hop/rap songs use harmonies, tempos, etc from other songs? If it's good, use it.
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Not my favorite track by any stretch.
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