"Bother" is the second single from the hard rock bandStone Sour'sself-titled debut album. It was originally released as a solo song by frontmanCorey Taylor, but the billing was later changed to Stone Sour. The song was one of Stone Sour's first songs to put them into the mainstream. The cover features Taylor's hands and rings, one of them being aSpider-Man ring which is a reference to the song's debut appearance on thesoundtrack to the filmSpider-Man (although the track is credited to Taylor as the performer, not Stone Sour) and to Taylor being a fan of the superhero. The other has the number eight on it, representing Taylor's number inSlipknot. Taylor has stated that the song is about when he moved back toDes Moines fromDenver, where he hoped to try to move forward with his music.
In 2024, Taylor released a remix/follow-up song titledBother '23 (Still Not Bothered) on his compilation albumCMF2...or Not 2B for Record Store Day. It features cover songs and unreleased B-sides.[2]
The music video shows Taylor standing face-to-face with an exact copy of himself in a large room. As the two sing, Taylor's copy begins to rapidly age, and eventually dies and turns to dust as the other band members surround the two Taylors. All that is left of the copy is his Spider-Man ring, which the other Taylor puts on his own finger, encompassing his own Spider-Man ring. This video was directed byGregory Dark.[3]
