Seether (song)

"Seether"
Single by Veruca Salt
from the album American Thighs
Released	1994
Format	Compact Disc, 7-inch
Recorded	1994
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:16
Label	Minty Fresh
Writer(s)	Nina Gordon
Producer	Brad Wood
Veruca Salt singles chronology
"Seether" (1994) "Number One Blind" (1995)

"Seether" is a single by the American alternative band Veruca Salt. It was backed with "All Hail Me". In 1994 the song was #3 in British Radio One DJ John Peel's Festive Fifty.

The post-grunge rock/alternative metal band Seether named themselves after this song.

Interpretations

Speculation resulted over to whom the song's character of "the Seether" might refer to in real life^{[citation needed]}. The song "Volcano Girls", includes the line, "The Seether's Louise" (i.e. Veruca Salt vocalist Louise Post), however, this is tongue-in-cheek, as the band sings this line to the tune of The Beatles song "Glass Onion" in which John Lennon sings "The Walrus was Paul." It has also been speculated that Gordon wrote Seether after having a discussion with someone and disagreeing so strongly that she wanted to assault her, yet feeling societal pressure, espcially on women, to keep their anger under the surface.

Charts

Chart (1994)	Peak Position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	34
U.K. Top 75 Singles	61
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	8

External links

• Official artist website
• Veruca Salt at Rolling Stone