| Lady Picture Show | |
| Cover: | stone temple pilots lady picture show single cover.jpeg |
| Alt: | A simple slate background with the name of the band and the song written in large light-yellow cursive |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Stone Temple Pilots |
| Album: | Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop |
| Studio: | Westerly Ranch, Santa Ynez, California |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 4:06 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Composer: | Robert DeLeo |
| Lyricist: | Scott Weiland |
| Producer: | Brendan O'Brien |
| Prev Title: | Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Tumble in the Rough |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
"Lady Picture Show" is a song by American alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots. It was the third single released from their third album, Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop. It was also one of three tracks on the album to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Scott Weiland wrote in his autobiography, Not Dead and Not for Sale, that the song "is about the horrific gang rape of a dancer who winds up falling in love but can't let go of the pain."[1]
"Lady Picture Show" also appears on Thank You, a greatest hits compilation released in 2003. It was also used in the unaired pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer during the scene where Buffy is at The Bronze.
The music video was directed by Josh Taft. The video is presented as an old film peep show; rendered nearly completely in black-and-white. Throughout the video, the band can be seen playing in a white room, with objects such as bubbles and shiny diamonds. Various shots of exotic dancers are seen dancing around the screen as well, along with shots of the band members playing. During Dean DeLeo's notable solo, the screen turns into the fuzzy color structure which was a trademark of the 1960s. The segment shows Dean playing in a colorful meadow, and it then fades back into black and white for the rest of the video.