Blurry

This article is about the song by Puddle of Mudd. For other uses, see Blur.

"Blurry"
Single by Puddle of Mudd
from the album Come Clean
ReleasedOctober 16, 2001 (2001-10-16)
RecordedLate 2000
Genre
Length
  • 5:04 (album version)
  • 4:17 (radio and video version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Puddle of Mudd singles chronology
"Control"
(2001) 		"Blurry"
(2001) 		"Drift & Die"
(2002)
Music video
"Blurry" on YouTube

"Blurry" is a song by American rock band Puddle of Mudd. It was released on October 16, 2001, as the second single from the band's debut album Come Clean (2001). It was 2002's most successful rock song in the United States, topping the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock Tracks charts as well as their year-end listings. "Blurry" also found success outside the US, reaching the top 20 in Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Background

Puddle of Mudd played small shows in the Kansas City area for most of the 1990s with little mainstream success.[3] However, singer Wes Scantlin got a demo tape to Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst when Limp Bizkit were in town on October 12, 1999, on the Family Values Tour, and Durst's label Flawless Records signed him to a recording contract. Unimpressed with Scantlin's bandmates, Flawless Records scrapped them all,[4] rebuilt the group with musicians Scantlin had never seen before, and flew him out to Los Angeles in late 2000 to record with them. He spent his days fiddling with his acoustic guitar in a hotel room on Hollywood Boulevard, where he reworked a previous Puddle of Mudd song called "Electron Moon" into "Blurry".[5][6]

“’Blurry’ was basically about being flown to freaking Los Angeles and y’know, I didn't have any friends so they had put me into a hotel room,” Scantlin told American Songwriter. “I didn't know anybody at all. And I was just missing my family and son, I missed my grandma and stuff.”[5]

Composition

The song is written in the key of E♭ minor with a moderately slow tempo of 78 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression of C♭–D♭–E♭m, and the vocals in the song span from D♭3 to A♭4.[7]

Commercial performance

"Blurry" is Puddle of Mudd's most successful song, reaching the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts for 10 and nine weeks, respectively. This soon propelled the single to mainstream success, reaching the number five spot on both the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay[8] and Billboard Hot 100[9] and number three on the Pop Songs chart. "Blurry" was the eighth-most played song on radio in Canada in 2002.[10] The song is also the band's highest selling U.S. single ever, with sales of 753,000 copies, as of 2010.[11] Additionally, the song's writers, Wes Scantlin, Doug Ardito, and Jimmy Allen, won ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Song of the Year and Pop Song of the Year for this tune.[12] "Blurry" also won two Billboard Awards in 2002, for Modern Rock Track of the Year and Rock Track of the Year. It also received the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. "Blurry" reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart on its release there in June 2002, becoming the band's highest-charting single in the United Kingdom.

Music video

The music video shows Scantlin playing with his son Jordan, interspersed with shots of the band playing in a garage. Towards the end of the video, a man and a woman (presumably Jordan's mother and stepfather) are shown driving away with Jordan in the back seat as Wes watches sadly. The video was directed by Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst.

Accolades

Accolades for "Blurry"
Publication Region Accolade Year Rank
AOL Radio United States "Top Alternative Songs of the Decade – 2000s"[13] 2009 3

Track listings

Charts


Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Blurry"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[48] Gold 400,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Blurry"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States October 16, 2001
[49]
Australia April 1, 2002 CD [50]
United Kingdom June 3, 2002
  • CD
  • cassette
 [51]

Uses in media

Covers

References

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