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After the tumultuous hiatus, the band reunited for 1999’s No. 4. The band decided to return to heavy roots – on many of its tracks, most notably first single, “Down”. But the album also featured the gentle, largely acoustic single “Sour Girl”. Scott Weiland wrote the lyric about his first wife, Janina Castaneda. They got married in 1994, just as STP were becoming one of the biggest bands in America. Weiland admitted that he put her through hell with his capricious behavior that stemmed from his addictions.

“Everyone is convinced that it’s about my romance with Mary [Forsberg, second wife],” Weiland writes in his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale. “But everyone is wrong. ‘Sour Girl’ was written after the collapse of my relationship with Jannina [Castaneda, first wife]. 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.

“Sour Girl” also appears on the compilation albums Thank You and Buy This. It was the only Stone Temple Pilots song from No. 4 to reach the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 78. When he wrote the song, the couple in the midst of a divorce, which was finalized in 2000. In this song, Weiland sings about how she will soon be free of him, “a happy girl the day that she left me.” In his memoir, Weiland wrote, “She had finally rid her life of a man who had never been faithful.”

In the line, “I pay the ransom note to stop it from steaming,” the ransom note is Weiland’s divorce settlement, which he said “took forever and cost me a fortune.” The music video was released to accompany this single, and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was a huge fan of the band, played the female lead in the video. At the time, Gellar was a rising star thanks to her TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her movies Cruel Intentions and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The clip was nominated for Best Cinematography on MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.

The trippy video was directed by David Slade, whose work includes episodes of Hannibal and the movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The clip features little people in costumes that look like the Teletubbies, which were big at the time. The band claimed this was a coincidence, and that the creatures are based on a dream Weiland had. Many listeners thought this song was about Scott Weiland’s girlfriend at the time, Mary Forsberg, whom he would later marry.

This was the most successful single from the group’s fourth album, No. 4. With a soft, innocent sound, “Sour Girl” was a departure from the grunge style STP was known for. The album was released at a tumultuous time for the band: Scott Weiland had released a solo album the previous year, and his bandmates had formed an offshoot called Talk Show. Weiland was in the throes of addiction, and shortly before the album was released, he was sentenced to jail time for violating his parole (he was convicted of heroin possession the previous year). This killed plans for a tour and made it impossible to support the album, which suffered in sales as a result.

Scott Weiland’s sudden death is certainly personal for actress Sarah Michelle Gellar. The actress, who starred in the Stone Temple Pilots’ 1999 music video for “Sour Girl,” reacted to Weiland’s death on Friday. Weiland, the former lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, was touring with his new band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, when he was found dead on his tour bus.

After Jeff Gutt replaced the late Scott Weiland as Stone Temple vocalist, he felt there is one song that is “off limits” for him to sing out of respect for the band’s original frontman. Speaking to Brad Copeland of Rock 100.5 The KATT’s Rick & Brad Morning Show, Gutt said he had “a particular thing” about performing “Sour Girl” because it was written by Weiland as “a personal message.”