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Mary Jane's Last Dance
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"Mary Jane's Last Dance"

Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side "The Waiting"
Released November 1993
Genre Heartland rock[1]
Length 4:35
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Tom Petty
Producer(s)
Rick RubinTom PettyMike Campbell
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology
"Into the Great Wide Open"
(1991) "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
(1993) "Something in the Air"
(1993)
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" is a song written by Tom Petty and recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was recorded while Petty was recording his Wildflowers album and was produced by Rick Rubin, guitarist Mike Campbell, and Petty.[2] The sessions would prove to be the last to include drummer Stan Lynch before his eventual departure in 1994. This song was first released as part of the Greatest Hits album in 1993.[3] It rose to No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard top-20 hit of the 1990s,[4] and also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks.[5] Internationally, the song reached No. 2 in Portugal and No. 5 in Canada.
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Asked if the song was about drugs, Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell said, "In the verse there is still the thing about an Indiana girl on an Indiana night, just when it gets to the chorus he had the presence of mind to give it a deeper meaning. My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song." In the rest of the interview, Campbell said that the song was originally titled "Indiana Girl" and the first chorus began, "Hey, Indiana Girl, go out and find the world." He added that Petty "just couldn't get behind singing about 'hey, Indiana Girl,'" so he changed the chorus a week later.[6]
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The music video for the song features Petty as a morgue assistant[7] who takes home a beautiful dead woman (played by Kim Basinger).[8][9][10] He then acts as if she were alive, putting her in front of a television set and then dressing her as a bride,[11] sitting her at the dinner table and dancing with her. A scene in the video featuring the dead woman wearing a wedding dress in a room full of wax candles is loosely based on a passage from the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.[12] The plot also has similarities with the 1970 Charles Bukowski short story "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California", which had already inspired the 1987 Belgian film Crazy Love and the 1991 French film Cold Moon.[13]
Later, Petty is shown carrying her to a rocky shore (a scene filmed at Leo Carrillo State Park in California) and gently releasing her into the sea.[14] At the end of the video, the woman floats to the surface and opens her eyes.
I said, "She's got to look really good, or why would he keep her around after she's dead?" I thought, "Kim Basinger would be good. I'd probably keep her for a day or two, let's go see if she would do it." You can make a joke about it, but you have to act a bit to be dead. It's not easy.
— Tom Petty[15] on what made him decide that Kim Basinger would be a good choice for the corpse
Now that was one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life. It was classic, wasn't it? He was a doll, and he was so sweet and asked me to do it, and both of us are extremely shy so we just said three words to each other the whole time. I'll never forget how heavy[16] that dress was! And I had to be dead the whole time. You know, it's really one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, because I had to be completely weightless to be in his arms the way I was. It won all those awards, and the kids love it—even today!
— Kim Basinger[17]