Celebrity Skin

"Celebrity Skin"
Single by Hole from the album Celebrity Skin
B-side	Best Sunday Dress, Dying
Released	September 1998 (1998-)
Format	CD-Single
Recorded	1997 (1997)
Genre	Grunge, Alternative rock
Length	2:42
Label	Geffen
Writer	Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Billy Corgan
Hole singles chronology
"Gold Dust Woman" (1996) "Celebrity Skin" (1998) "Malibu" (1998)

"Celebrity Skin" is a song by Hole from the Celebrity Skin album. The song was also used in the film American Pie, but it did not appear on the soundtrack. It is Hole's most commercially successful single, being the only one to reach #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The lyrics contain references to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem "A Superscription", and Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," as well as the song sharing the name of an American pornographic magazine. Ashlee Simpson did a short cover of this song on her Autobiography Tour-2005. The song received two Grammy nominations: Best Rock Song, losing to "Uninvited" by Alanis Morissette and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, losing to "Pink" by Aerosmith.

Video

The video features the band miming the song on a stage, Courtney with a pink electric guitar, as women wearing purple gowns fall slowly from the ceiling. They then begin to lift their skirts as they amble around the stage. There are many close-ups of Courtney which show her vivid green eyes and of Melissa Auf der Maur also.

Track listing

1. "Celebrity Skin" (Corgan, Erlandson, Love) - 2:42
2. "Best Sunday Dress" (Erlandson, Bjelland, Love) - 3:05
3. "Dying" (Demo) (Corgan, Erlandson, Love) - 3:44

Trivia

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• When Hole performed at The Big Day Out in Australia, Courtney Love was topless during the entirety of the song's performance.
• The song will be a playable track in the upcoming video game Rock Band.

Charts

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