2001Released
2:47

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Interesting facts and trivia about Too Cool Queenie. By Songfacts®.

This song was written by STP lead singer Scott Weiland, who at the time refused to comment on it's subject, but later revealed that it was about Courtney Love, something most fans suspected. The lyrics describe a woman who berates a man in a rock band until he kills himself - a thinly veiled reference to Love and her husband, Kurt Cobain. Wieland and Love spent some time together in the late '90s when she was at odds with Cobain's bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. He said that "Too Cool Queenie" was "a fanciful version of the story of her and Kurt."

In a 2016 interview with Courtney Love on the Anna Faris podcast, Love spoke about this song being written about her: "Some people would write songs about me that I didn't date, like Stone Temple Pilots wrote a song about me, about a 'self-destructive blonde chick.' They'd write the 'self-destructive blonde chick' song and say that's about [me]." When pressed about whether Love and Weiland had a relationship, she replied, "I got him out of rehab once, we had an adventure, we stayed at Shudders, I got him into rehab, but we never did that no, I never dated him, or whatever you want to call it."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Too Cool Queenie.
A♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
191BPM

Album

The album Too Cool Queenie is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Too Cool Queenie.
Atlantic Records
© 2001 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
℗ 2001 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States excluding Australia and New Zealand.

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