Veruca Salt – Seether

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  Song Meaning:The song is about her 10th grade year taking Biology with Mr. Wallace. Mr. Wallace was eating a bowl of fruit loops to demonstrate the meaning of awesomeness. "Seether" is the fruit loop that Mr. Wallace choked on. He died that very same day. At the funeral, these two chicks remembered Mr. Wallace in song and spirit. I cry every time I think of it. That's a fact.

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  Song Meaning:You guys are so funny.... In a radio interview in Australia, 1994 on Triple J, Louise explained the song was about her vile and uncontrollable temper. She would scream the most vicious abuse at her family and friends when she had one of these massive tantrums, saying things she would feel terrible about later.
  She, her family and her closest friends saw her as a completely different person when she was in this state, so she tended to think of her temper in the third person, someone she called The Seether.
  Louise explained that she could feel this temper coming on, but there was nothing she could do nothing about it, gentle or harsh: 'Keep her on a short leash', 'rock her in my cradle', 'knock her out', 'cram her back in my mouth'.
  The Seether of course 'is not born like other girls' because she comes from within and Loiuse 'knows how to conceive her' because The Seether is part of her.
  As an extension, The Seether could also live in other girls of all ages, sizes and races, something she could identify with and talk about, because if a guy sang about the same thing he would be considered sexist.
  During the interview both girls were laughing about all the whacky meanings people had attributed to the song. Read the lyrics though with this in mind and they all make sense.

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    Thank you! And Nina's nod to "Seether" in "Volcano Girls" ("Well, here's another clue if you please: The seether's Louise!") certainly agrees with this. Though, Nina wrote the song, not Louise...

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  General Comment:No, no, no you're all wrong. Seether is her clitoris while she's masturbating. Neither loose nor tight means specifically not her vagina. Neither black nor white, because it's pink. I try to calm her down (because she doesn't want to climax), I try to ram her into the ground (with hard rubbing). I can't see her 'til I'm foaming at the mouth (it's not fully visible until she's about to climax). Neither big nor small, the center of it all (the middle of her vulva), rock her in her cradle (move her back and forth in the labia), try to knock her out (hard rubbing again), try to cram her back in my mouth (either force it into the opening, or perhaps she's trying to orally pleasure herself). Not like other girls (may not look like every other one she's seen, but she knows how to have a good time with her). You can tell she's singing dirty.

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  My Interpretation:Usually, I could care less about lyric meanings. Love Nirvana, but don't care about the crazy lyrics or there meaning..just great music. This is the only song I've ever 'looked up' to find out what others thought of what it meant, found this site, and found noone else came up with what I theorized. Not saying it's right, just what I think. 1st off I'm a guy and NOT sexist(relevance made clear in a min.). now then, my interpretation plays along with the other comments about it being about anger. But I think its realy about competition between females. yeah..I said it. Best part is that most women can't decipher the true meaning..(or they wont admit to it..OR THE SECRETS OUT). Women are a diffent species..thats why a good band with at least a female vocalist is rare..but even kick ass band girls sing about love(or lack of it) and sex most of the time. NOT all the time. But I think Seehther is lead singers interpretation of her feeling of 'being better than the girl around you' sindrome thats imbeded in all girls from the day they're born. guys are the same way, but our competition is DIRECT or nothing..simple as that. please...if u hate what i'm saying..add comment @fuck off.ORG.
  
  
  Thank you...come again

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  General Comment:this song is about a cat. that's it.

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  General Comment:It may not have been intentional on their part, but there's also another very interesting connection with this song. The word 'seether' is derived from and related to the Old Norse word 'seiðr' (pronounced 'SAY-ther'), which is basically the shamanic mystical tradition of Northern Germanic heathenry and was traditionally practiced by women. A seiðu is a practitioner of seiðr, and that word is also related via their common Indo-European origins to 'saddhu', the Sanskrit word designating a 'holy man' in India. So the way 'seether' is described in this song is very closely descriptive of the energy-states experienced by someone practicing seiðr. 'Boiling water' and 'seething' are also ideas used by the South African !Kung tribe ('bushmen') to describe their trance-energy state achieved by ecstatic dancing. It can't be fought, it boils up within you, is both calm/healing but also powerful and dangerous (analogous to kundalini or "serpent fire"). Try to push it down but you can't - also this is the root of language itself, speaking being a manifestation of that very same energy opening up the throat chakra. And in the song video, many of the images - especially all the cats! - are also very symbolic and indicative of this. It's that ultra-wild, seething, raging, feline, serpent, Kali energy. Absolutely brilliant song imo.

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    Seether is neither a good or bad song.

    Flag redshiftdazzleron December 11, 2011  
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  General Comment:the song does on the surface seem to be about anger, and i always took it that way, and it is, but there may be more to it. i think it is open to be about any strong or desperate emotion or desire that bubbles under the surface and if allowed free rein, would be destructive. when you can't see it till you're foaming at the mouth, it is even more difficult to rein in, and you must learn to see it coming before it gets to that point. ultimately, you must learn what drives the seether, and address what is missing in your life that causes her to boil over. it is almost always an internal rather than external correction, even if an external force originally caused the damage.
  
  i don't know what they were playing at with that louise nonsense. some sort of homage to what i always considered an insipid line from the beatles, which itself sprung from an even more insipid line (i am the egg man, i am the walrus, koo koo ka choo). but, if the beatles were rightly castigating the moronic fans who puzzled over every nonsense line as if it contained the secrets of the universe and would grant them some sort of enlightenment if they could understand the meaning, that changes things, but still makes no sense for veruca salt to reference.

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  General Comment:i watched the vid today and they show cats which i think represent pussy and theyre eating out of dolls and the lyrics and everything make me believe this song is about lesbos. all the signs are right there.

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  General Comment:C'mon people, this is 2010, and this song is 16 years old already. We're still fighting over the meaning of this song?
  
  It's about being unsatisfied sexually. You get some, but it's not enough. Keep coming back for more, can't fight it.
  
  It's chicks singing about being horny. In case the Seether reference isn't enough, I will tell you for sure, yes, Volcano Girls is a sequel to this song. Warm them up and watch them squirt.
  
  Veruca Salt were a great band for the first two LPs and the Blow It Out Your Ass EP. Such up-front rock power and sexuality, normally associated with male rock musicians, wrapped up in crunchy guitar melodies. (Oh, and Nina and Louise were DAMN HOT AND SEXY.) After Nina (and the rest of the band left), Veruca Salt just became an outlet for Louise to vent all of her frustrations. Dave Grohl was a douche for cheating on Louise, so I guess she was entitled to bitch about it a bit.

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  My Interpretation:Okay I'm probably WAAAAY off base here, but I seemed to recall (can't tell you from where, but see, e.g., epilepsyfoundation.org/epilepsyusa/yebeh/upload/…) that a long time ago, (1) people with epilepsy were thought to seethe or foam at the mouth, and (2) boiling water was though to be a remedy for epilepsy. Is it possible that Louise is/was, or was thought to be, epileptic? The first part is saying that she's not anything unusual because she's epileptic, and the last part is about formerly-used remedies now considered barbaric, and things though to provoke an epileptic seizure. Okay, I know it's a crazy theory . . .
  

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