| "Doll Parts" | ||||
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| Single by Hole | ||||
| from the album Live Through This | ||||
| B-side |
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| Written | November 1991 | |||
| Released | November 15, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | October 1993 | |||
| Studio | Triclops Sound (Marietta, Georgia, U.S.) | |||
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| Length | 3:31 | |||
| Label | DGC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Courtney Love[4] | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Doll Parts" on YouTube | ||||
"Doll Parts" is a song by American alternative rock band Hole, written by vocalist and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love. The song was released as the band's sixth single and second from their second studio album, Live Through This, in November 1994 to accompany the band's North American tour. It was also the first single to be released following the death of bassist Kristen Pfaff in June 1994.
Love wrote the song in late 1991, soon after she met Kurt Cobain, and has admitted that its lyrics were about her insecurity of his romantic interest in her.[5] It became one of the band's most popular songs, peaking on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks at number 4, and is considered by fans and critics alike as one of Hole's signature tracks.[6]
In September 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the track 208 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[7]
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