2001Released
5:03

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Interesting facts and trivia about Blurry. By Songfacts®.

Puddle Of Mudd lead singer Wes Scantlin wrote "Blurry" about his desire to be a good dad to his son Jordan, and how he was missing his friends and family. The band toiled through the '90s, playing bars and clubs in the Kansas City area as they tried to get a record deal. By the end of the decade, they were essentially disbanded, but in 1999 Scantlin managed to get a demo tape to Fred Durst's security guard when his band Limp Bizkit was in town for the Family Values Tour. Durst signed Scantlin to his label, Flawless Records (a division of Bizkit's label, Interscope), but the other guys in the band weren't invited. Flawless helped Scantlin assemble a new Puddle Of Mudd lineup with guys he'd never met. Late in 2000, Scantlin was sent to Los Angeles to make the Come Clean album with his new bandmates. It was bittersweet: his dream was finally coming true but it was without the people who were with him on the journey, and he desperately missed Jordan, who was three years old. Feeling isolated and disconnected, he came up with the lyric. "When I got out here to LA, I didn't know anybody and I was really sad because I missed my family and my kid," Scantlin told Songfacts. "I missed everybody a lot. I had to put my hammer down and just get after it and make it happen. So, basically the song is just about missing a slew of people that you love and adore."

"Blurry" is a reworking of an earlier Puddle Of Mudd song called "Electron Moon" that Scantlin wrote with their original guitarist, Jimmy Allen. Scantlin kept most of the melody but changed a lot of the lyric. In the chorus, the original line was "In the end, they take it all away." Scantlin made it a question: "Can you take it all away?" Jimmy Allen is credited as a co-writer along with Scantlin.

Puddle Of Mudd toured as the opening act for another Fred Durst signing, Staind, in the summer of 2001 when the Come Clean album was issued and their first single, "Control," was released. They went on their own headlining tour in October, which is when they issued "Blurry" as the second single. It was huge hit, going to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart and crossing over to reach #5 on the Hot 100. It hung around that chart for 38 weeks. But these were the dying days of nu-metal, and Puddle Of Mudd got bogged down. They had two more hits from the album - "Drift And Die" and "She Hates Me" - but they spent most of 2002 on the road and didn't get their next album out until 2003. By then, the only rock bands that were getting much mainstream airplay were 3 Doors Down, Audioslave and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Blurry.
D♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
157BPM

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The album Blurry is released on.

Released By

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Flawless Records
© 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
A Geffen Records Release; ℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.

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