Stone Temple Pilots were even named the “worst new band” by Rolling Stone editors in a year-end recap of the music of 1993, per Ultimate Classic Rock.
In a 2023 interview with 107.7 The Bone, Robert DeLeo explained, “I don't think the four of us ever put any kind of name on what kind of music we were making. We happened to come out at a time when the people in this business were creating these terms — it's all a selling point, and we got caught up, as well as other bands, in a selling point for record companies to make money.”
DeLeo’s reference to “Interstate Love Song,” a country-twinged single from the band’s follow-up album, Purple, is significant because that was the song that helped them unload the “grunge” label and become taken more seriously by critics.
“When I first wrote the song, it actually started out as a bossa nova piece,” he told Billboardin an interview. “I had been getting introduced to a lot of bossa nova and samba at the time like Joao Gilberto and Jorge Ben, and I wrote it on a cheap $25 guitar that was sitting in the back of the truck we used to ride around in with the gear on our first tour. Maybe one day we will record it the way I originally intended it to be, but that’s how it started. The twang, however, added a nice Jerry Reed/Glen Campbell hook to it.”
DeLeo had a feeling the song would stand the test of time. In 2002, he told KNAC, “When I write songs like ‘Interstate Love Song,’ I think I’ll hear that tune years from now."
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