“Hell is a teenage girl” is the first line in the original script of the 2009 horror cult classic, Jennifer’s Body. But that wasn’t the original Jennifer’s Body. In fact, in 1992 Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson wrote a song with that title for their second album, Live Through This.
The song is speculated to be about a young woman named Colleen Stan who was kidnapped and held captive for seven years, and is famously known as the “girl in the box.” This is mostly due to the lines in the song, “He cuts you down from the tree / He keeps you in a box by the bed,” which is what Stan’s captors did to her. From the second verse to the end, it seems like Love is singing about a woman being killed, which adds to the speculation. None of the members of Hole have confirmed or denied this potential meaning.
“Jennifer’s Body” is the kind of song you have to listen to several times to understand what the lyrics are about because you’re too busy just enjoying it. With Patty Schemel on drums, Erlandson on guitar, and Kristen Pfaff on bass, the three of them make the song what it is. Love’s vocals are unmatched, but, without the three of them, “Jennifer’s Body” probably wouldn’t sound as good as it does.
Even though there is no connection between the lyrics and the film, the lines, “He said / ‘I’m your lover, / I’m your friend / I’m pure’ / and hit me again / with a bullet,” there’s a running joke in the plot that Anita “Needy” Lesnicky is in love with her best friend, Jennifer, despite having a boyfriend.
The idea of enjoying a track about a woman being murdered is a bit morbid, but it’s a damn good song.
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