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Miss World (song)

"Miss World"
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Single by Hole
from the album Live Through This
B-side "Rock Star" (alt. mix) (CD, EU 7")
"Do It Clean" (EU 7")
"Over the Edge" (US 7")
Released March 28, 1994 (1994-03-28)
Format
Recorded October 1993 (1993-10)
Studio Triclops Sound Studios in Marietta, Georgia, U.S.
Genre
Length 2:58
Label Tim/Kerr (US)
City Slang (UK)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Hole singles chronology
"Beautiful Son"
(1993)
"Miss World"
(1994)
"Doll Parts"
(1994)
"Beautiful Son"
(1993)
"Miss World"
(1994)
"Doll Parts"
(1994)

"Miss World" is a song by American alternative rock band Hole, written by frontwoman Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The song was released as the band's fifth single and the first from their second studio album, Live Through This, in March 1994.

The single was released in the United States on Tim/Kerr records, an independent label in Portland, Oregon, on a 7" Pink vinyl, as well as a limited edition picture disc pressing paired with the band's cover of "Over the Edge" by the Wipers. City Slang released CD and vinyl versions of the single in Europe, both with "Rock Star" (Alternate Mix) as a B-side. A music video for the song was directed by Sophie Muller in March 1994 and released in promotion with the single.

Erlandson and Love wrote "Miss World" in summer 1992 after the departure of former band members Jill Emery and Caroline Rue. An early version of the song, recorded with drummer Patty Schemel and Love's husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, was recorded in BMG Ariola Ltda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 21, 1993. Featuring Love on lead guitar and vocals, recently recruited drummer Patty Schemel and Cobain on bass, the trio recorded the song, alongside others such as "She Walks On Me", "Softer, Softest" and "Closing Time", during breaks in Nirvana's session. Sound engineer Craig Montgomery stated that though some songs were "half-baked ideas", "'Miss World' was a fairly complete song at that point" and "'the most fleshed out song' of the session."


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