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Creep (Stone Temple Pilots song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Creep
| cover = Stone temple pilots creep.jpg
| alt =
| caption = European commercial CD release
| type = single
| artist = Stone Temple Pilots
| album = Core
| B-side = *"Crackerman"
*"Where the River Goes"
| released =
| recorded = 1992
| studio =
| genre = *Alternative rock
*grunge
| length = *5:33 (album version)
* (radio edit)
| label = Atlantic
| lyricist = * Scott Weiland
* Robert DeLeo
| composer = Robert DeLeo
| producer = Brendan O'Brien
| prev_title = Plush
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Big Empty
| next_year = 1994
| misc =
}}
"'Creep'" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, appearing as the seventh track off the band's debut album, 'Core' and later released as a single. The song also appears on the band's greatest hits album, 'Thank You'. A live version featuring Aaron Lewis is included on The Family Values 2001 Tour release.
Composition
In a November 2014 interview with 'Songfacts', Scott Weiland said, "That's just the idea of being a young person somewhere, caught between still being a kid and becoming a young man. It's that youth apathy, that second-guessing yourself, not feeling like you fit in."
On file-sharing and lyric websites such as Limewire and Kazaa, "Creep" was often miscredited as "Half the Man I Used to Be" by Nirvana.
The version of the song that was released in the 1993 promotional single contains different vocal takes in the verses than on the album version, most notably with an alternate melody and added percussion in the second verse which is the arrangement most often performed live.
Music video
There were two videos shot for "Creep". The video that aired was directed by Graeme Joyce after a version by director Gus Van Sant was shelved due to its drug and sexual references.
Lyrical content
The song's lyrics were written by lead vocalist Scott Weiland and bassist Robert DeLeo. DeLeo also wrote the song's music. DeLeo stated the following about "Creep:"
Musically speaking I was thinking about a song along the lines of "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young, which is in the key of D-minor, the saddest key of all. Scott was thinking about the lyrics, and at that time in our lives we were struggling very much. What Scott was writing about was a real-life situation. Also about me, the thing about the gun. "Creep" is a very demeaning word. It was one of those instances where we looked at ourselves, looked in the mirror.
Track listing
# "Creep" [New Radio Version] - 4:31
# "Crackerman" - 3:12
# "Where the River Goes" - 8:20
German track listing
# Creep# Dead and Bloated
# Piece of Pie
Charts
References
Category:1990s ballads
Category:1992 songs
Category:1993 singles
Category:Black-and-white music videos
Category:Song recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
Category:Songs written by Robert DeLeo
Category:Songs written by Scott Weiland
Category:Stone Temple Pilots songs
Category:Alternative rock ballads
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