The singer added to RIP Magazine, "I guess for myself, the person who writes words, I feel comfortable writing about my own experiences and feelings, so I guess they're a lot more introspective as opposed to. It's about lying to Jannina and lying to the band about my heroin addiction." Specifically he stated, "It's about being stuck in the same situation over and over again. And Weiland would later state in his autobiography Not Dead and Not for Sale that "Vasoline" was penned about his drug habit. Robert DeLeo told MusikExpress that it also dealt with the feeling of how the band was being delivered to the media. On VH1's Storytellers series, Weiland stated that it was about feeling like an insect under a magnifying glass. As for the meaning of the song, there have been a few interpretations. In June of '94, with the album landing on shelves, Stone Temple Pilots moved forward with the driving rocker " Vasoline." The aggressive intro came about when Robert DeLeo decided to try something different, channeling his bass through a wah pedal. 3), MTV began to air the Unplugged performance of the song that would serve as the video for the track. However, with the song bounding up the charts (it peaked at No. The band performed the song live for the first time during the taping of their MTV Unplugged special, but the track was initially left out of the edited special. At one point, "Big Empty" carried the title "Only Dying," according to Robert DeLeo in an interview with MusikExpress, but the band changed it after the death of actor Brandon Lee while shooting The Crow film. The band delivered a moody, bluesy track called " Big Empty" for the film, and as it fell in the vein of their final Core single "Creep," the song served as the perfect bridge to Purple. By virtue of their success, the group had been sought out to contribute the soundtrack of The Crow, one of the early box office successes of 1994.
The band had already started the ball rolling when the Purple album arrived on June 7, 1994. I'm satisfied with this album, and I hope that we continue challenging ourselves and progressing as songwriters." I'm not saying we're better than everybody else, but we're a completely different entity than anyone else. Weiland told RIP Magazine, "I'm so confident with the songwriting of the people in this band, the people I play music with, that I'm not going to let any person try to judge me as a person or songwriter, because I know where we're at. Emboldened by the experiences that had occurred over a difficult few years for the band, vocalist Scott Weiland channeled some of the tensions and self-reflection into the lyrical content, while the remaining band members upped their game providing the musical portions and expanding the group's sounds.
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