"Barbarella" is the only official single released from Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...

's debut album 12 Bar Blues

12 Bar Blues (album)

12 Bar Blues is the debut solo album from Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Its sound and style differs greatly from his band's releases. The design concept of the cover is a homage to the cover design of John Coltrane's Blue Train album...

. The song is titled after the sci-fi film

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...

 Barbarella

Barbarella (film)

Barbarella is a 1968 Franco-Italian science fiction film based on Jean-Claude Forrest's French Barbarella comics. The film was directed by Roger Vadim and stars Jane Fonda, who was Vadim's wife at the time.-Plot:...

, while the lyrics of the song pay homage to several science fiction television shows and movies.

Music video

The song's music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 used themes from the David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 film The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)

The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg.The film is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought...

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Chart performance

The song charted on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and remained there for three weeks, peaking at number 36.

Chart	Peak position
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Modern Rock Tracks Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...	36

Personnel

• Tony Castaneda - Guitar
• Tracy Chisholm - Producer
• Peter DiStefano
  Peter DiStefano
  Peter DiStefano is best known as the guitarist for the alternative rock band Porno for Pyros...
  
   - Guitar, Ethereal Guitar, Bass
• Mark Howard - Mixing
• Victor Indrizzo
  Victor Indrizzo
  Victor Indrizzo is an American session musician, primarily known for playing the drums, as well as a songwriter and producer.Indrizzo was born in Freeport, Long Island, New York...
  
   - Hi-hat Cymbal
• Daniel Lanois
  Daniel Lanois
  Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...
  
   - Guitar, Producer, Mixing
• Martyn LeNoble
  Martyn LeNoble
  Martyn LeNoble is a Dutch bassist and founding member of Porno for Pyros.LeNoble started his musical career by playing bass in a Dutch punk rock band when he was 14. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles and played with the likes of Thelonious Monster and The Too Free Stooges...
  
   - Bass
• Holly Reiger - Guitar
• Michael Weiland - Acoustic Drum Loop
• Scott Weiland
  Scott Weiland
  Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
  
  - Vocals, Human Beatbox, Piano, Synthesizer, Percussion, Additional Guitars, Producer