Guitar One magazine named Doug Ardito's "Blurry" guitar harmonic riff as one of its "Top Ten Riffs of the Decade". The song is written in the key of E minor with a moderately slow tempo of 78 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression of C–D–Em, and the vocals in the song span from D3 to A4.
Commercial performance
"Blurry" is Puddle of Mudd's most successful song, reaching the number-one spot on the BillboardHot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts for 10 and nine weeks, respectively. This soon propelled the single to mainstream success, reaching the number five spot on both the BillboardHot 100 Airplay and Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Pop Songs chart. "Blurry" was the eight-most played song on radio in Canada in 2002. The song is also the band's highest selling U.S. single ever, with sales of 753,000 copies, as of 2010. Additionally, the song's writers, Wes Scantlin, Doug Ardito, and Jimmy Allen won ASCAPSong of the Year and Pop Song of the Year for this tune. "Blurry" also won two Billboard Awards in 2002, for Modern Rock Track of the Year and Rock Track of the Year. It also received the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. "Blurry" reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart on its release there in June 2002, becoming the band's highest charting single in the United Kingdom.
Track listings
Promo single Enhanced single
Music video
The music video shows Scantlin playing with Jordan, interspersed with shots of the band playing in a garage. Towards the end, a man and a woman are shown driving away with Jordan in the back seat as Wes watches sadly. The video was directed by Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst.
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Uses in media
This song was used as the title theme for the video game .
This song was used in the trailer for the 2003 film A Man Apart.
P.M. Dawn appeared on NBC's Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, performing "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", and covered Puddle of Mudd's "Blurry". Despite the fact that Prince Be was still suffering the effects of this stroke, they beat Animotion, Missing Persons, Juice Newton and Shannon to claim the $20,000 charitable prize, which they contributed to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, as Prince Be was a diabetic. In June 2019, P.M. Dawn collaborated with musician Tommy Marz on a studio version of Blurry dedicated to the memory of Attrell Cordes
