Blurry
by Puddle of Mudd
- 161
- BPM
- Eb minor
- Key
- 2A
- Camelot
- 44
- Danceability
- 1
- Acousticness
Wes Scantlin wrote "Blurry" in a hotel room on Hollywood Boulevard, fiddling with an acoustic guitar. Puddle of Mudd had played small Kansas City shows for most of the 1990s until Scantlin handed a demo tape to Fred Durst on October 12, 1999, when Limp Bizkit were in town. Durst's label signed him and scrapped his bandmates. It flew him to Los Angeles in late 2000 to record with musicians he had never seen before.
He knew nobody there. He missed his family and his grandmother. He reworked an older band song, "Electron Moon", into the new one. Released in October 2001 as the second single from Come Clean, it got a video directed by Durst. It shows Scantlin playing with his son Jordan, then watching sadly as Jordan is driven away.
"Blurry" spent 10 weeks at number one on the Mainstream Rock chart and nine on the Modern Rock chart, and reached number five on the Hot 100. In the UK it hit number eight in June 2002. Scantlin, Doug Ardito and Jimmy Allen won ASCAP Song of the Year for it, and by 2010 it had sold 753,000 copies in the US.
Blurry runs at 161 BPM, the tempo of footwork, gabber and fast metal. In classical terms it sits in vivace territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.49 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 373 ms. It is in Eb minor, Camelot 2A, which shares its notes with F# major and mixes cleanly with Ab minor and Bb minor.
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