"Rival" is a song by the rock group Pearl Jam off of their 2000 album, Binaural. It was written by guitarist Stone Gossard and recorded using binaural recording techniques. The song's intro is an audio recording of producer Tchad Blake's dog, Dakota.[1] According to the lyric page in the album's liner notes, the song's subtitle is "Growing Up Gay in Littleton".
Lyrical meaning
"Rival" is about the massacre that occurred at Columbine High School. When speaking about the song in an interview Stone Gossard stated:
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[It's] kind of almost a cartoony look at male ego and sort of anger, violence...what makes people kind of snap and how people are unpredictable. [There was] just kind of a melody that went through my head and right after Columbine happened. It kind of maybe took on a little of that, where I put myself in the mindset or tried to think about what those guys may have been thinking the night before.[2] |
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