1999Released
3:36

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Interesting facts and trivia about Butterfly. By Songfacts®.

The album had been out for a year and a half before this became a hit. It was the third single from Crazy Town. They first released harder songs "Toxic" and "Darkside," which flopped. Crazy Town toured with Buckcherry, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Methods Of Mayhem for two years before this became a hit.

Crazy Town lead singer Shifty Shellshock (Seth Binzer) wrote this song about the girl he was seeing at the time. Most of the group's songs were full of macho swagger, which made her wary of Shellshock, so he set out to write something more romantic. The two were living together at the time, and she collected butterflies. As Shellshock tells it, he was lying on the bed, thinking about what to call his song, when he spotted a butterfly on the ceiling. That gave him the title, and he later came up with the line, "You're my butterfly, sugar baby." He brought the idea to the band, and they loved the idea; they recorded the demo that very evening. Unfortunately, things didn't work out for Shellshock and his butterfly girl - they were together for three years before a tough breakup.

This samples "Pretty Little Ditty" from The Red Hot Chili Peppers album Mother's Milk. After writing the lyrics, Shellshock asked his producer to give it a mellow feel similar to "Under The Bridge" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Butterfly.
AKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
104BPM

Album

The album Butterfly is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Butterfly.
Columbia
(P) 1999 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

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