Mary Jane's Last Dance

"Mary Jane's Last Dance"
Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side"The Waiting"
ReleasedNovember 16, 1993 (1993-11-16)
GenreHeartland rock[1]
Length4:35
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Tom Petty
Producer(s)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology
"Into the Great Wide Open"
(1991) 		"Mary Jane's Last Dance"
(1993) 		"Something in the Air"
(1993)

"Mary Jane's Last Dance" is a song written by Tom Petty and recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was recorded while Petty was recording his Wildflowers album and was produced by Rick Rubin, guitarist Mike Campbell, and Petty.[2] The sessions would prove to be the last to include drummer Stan Lynch before his eventual departure in 1994. This song was first released as part of the Greatest Hits album in 1993.[3] It rose to No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard top-20 hit of the 1990s,[4] and also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks.[5] Internationally, the song reached No. 2 in Portugal and No. 5 in Canada.

Content

Asked if the song was about drugs, Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell said, "In the verse there is still the thing about an Indiana girl on an Indiana night, just when it gets to the chorus he had the presence of mind to give it a deeper meaning. My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song." In the rest of the interview, Campbell said that the song was originally titled "Indiana Girl" and the first chorus began, "Hey, Indiana Girl, go out and find the world." He added that Petty "just couldn't get behind singing about 'hey, Indiana Girl,'" so he changed the chorus a week later.[6]

Music video

The music video for the song features Petty as a morgue assistant[7] who takes home a beautiful dead woman (played by Kim Basinger).[8][9][10] He then acts as if she were alive, putting her in front of a television set and then dressing her as a bride,[11] sitting her at the dinner table and dancing with her. A scene in the video featuring the dead woman wearing a wedding dress in a room full of wax candles is loosely based on a passage from the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.[12] The plot also has similarities with the 1970 Charles Bukowski short story "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California", which had already inspired the 1987 Belgian film Crazy Love and the 1991 French film Cold Moon.[13]

Later, Petty is shown carrying her to a rocky shore (a scene filmed at Leo Carrillo State Park in California) and gently releasing her into the sea.[14] At the end of the video, the woman floats to the surface and opens her eyes.

I said, "She's got to look really good, or why would he keep her around after she's dead?" I thought, "Kim Basinger would be good. I'd probably keep her for a day or two, let's go see if she would do it." You can make a joke about it, but you have to act a bit to be dead. It's not easy.

— Tom Petty[15] on what made him decide that Kim Basinger would be a good choice for the corpse

Now that was one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life. It was classic, wasn't it? He was a doll, and he was so sweet and asked me to do it, and both of us are extremely shy so we just said three words to each other the whole time. I'll never forget how heavy[16] that dress was! And I had to be dead the whole time. You know, it's really one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, because I had to be completely weightless to be in his arms the way I was. It won all those awards, and the kids love it—even today!

— Kim Basinger[17]

I did the "Mary Jane's Last Dance" video [in 1993] for one reason: Tom Petty.[18] I didn't even care what it was about -- I was just blown away when he called. Then I heard the music, and I was so in love with the song. The director [Keir McFarlane] was a gruff guy; it was kind of like, his way or the highway. And I always found Tom to be incredibly sensitive and sort of a backseat guy. He was just very humble, beautifully shy. I'm not the most outgoing human being in the world, and I thought, "I'm shy; he's shy." But as the story really unfolded and this director kept saying, "Look, you have got to really play dead--all your weight," we laughed so hard. I just honestly couldn't keep it together sometimes! Tom had a great sense of humor. I remember getting out of the pool that day and just being so glad it was over, but so proud that I had worked with him.

— Kim Basinger[19]

The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1994.

Plagiarism allegations

In 2006, a US radio station claimed that Red Hot Chili Peppers hit single, "Dani California" had plagiarized "Mary Jane's Last Dance", even calling for Petty to sue the band. Longtime Petty and Chili Peppers producer Rick Rubin produced both songs. Petty responded by saying that he was not going to sue the Chili Peppers and felt that there was no negative intent and that a lot of rock and roll songs sound alike.[20]

Personnel

Charts

References

  1. ^ Svonavec, Samuel (October 4, 2017). "Tom Petty: Legacy of a Rock Legend". Retrieved March 26, 2024. The band went on to pioneer the heartland rock sound with songs such as "Mary Jane's Last Dance," "Refugee," and countless others.
  2. ^ Greatest Hits 2008 Reissue Liner Notes Pg. 12
  3. ^ Allmusic:Mary Jane's Last Dance
  4. ^ Billboard.com Artist Chart History
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 490.
  6. ^ "Mike Campbell : Songwriter Interviews". songfacts.com.
  7. ^ Willman, Chris (February 20, 1994). "Battle of the Sexes: The Video Game". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ Beebe, Roger; Middleton, Jason (September 26, 2007). Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones. p. 97. ISBN 9780822341628.
  9. ^ "CELEBS WHO PLAYED DEAD". Wonderwall.com. October 19, 2010.
  10. ^ Russell, Deborah (January 15, 1994). "Dead Beat". Billboard.
  11. ^ "Top 10 Songs About Necrophilia". OH NO THEY DIDN'T. October 30, 2011.
  12. ^ Turcotte, Matthew W. (October 14, 2012). "Last Dance With Mary Jane..." A Pop Culture Addict's Guide To Life.
  13. ^ Rivieccio, Genna (October 3, 2017). "Better Off Dead: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" & What It Says About Projecting Expectations Onto A Lover". Culled Culture.
  14. ^ Cinquemani, Sal; Gonzalez, Ed (June 30, 2003). "The 100 Greatest Music Videos". Slant Magazine.
  15. ^ Newman, Melinda (December 5, 2005). "Tom Petty – BILLBOARD'S 2005 CENTURY AWARD HONOREE: A Portrait of the Artist". Billboard.
  16. ^ Ivie, Devon (September 9, 2021). "Kim Basinger Answers Every Question We Have About Playing Tom Petty's Lady Corpse". Vulture.
  17. ^ Stern, Marlow (June 5, 2015). "Kim Basinger on 'The 11th Hour,' Why the First 'Batman' Is Best, and Her Wild Time Dating Prince". The Daily Beast.
  18. ^ Bliss, Karen (October 23, 2017). "Kim Basinger Reflects On Playing Dead For 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' Video: 'I Did It Because Of Tom Petty'". Billboard.
  19. ^ "Tom Cruise, Liz Phair, Lucinda Williams, Kim Basinger & More Remember Tom Petty". Billboard. October 6, 2017.
  20. ^ "Petty Won't Sue Chili Peppers". MTV UK. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010.
  21. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 2375." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  22. ^ "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles". Music & Media. Vol. 10, no. 49. December 4, 1993. p. 11.
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  24. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
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  26. ^ "Top 10 Sales in Europe". Music & Media. Vol. 10, no. 49. December 4, 1993. p. 12.
  27. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  28. ^ "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  29. ^ "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  30. ^ "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  31. ^ "Top 100 Pop Singles" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. LVII, no. 27. March 19, 1994. p. 12. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
  32. ^ "Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard.
  33. ^ "RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM. Retrieved November 16, 2022 – via Library and Archives Canada.
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