Hole in My Soul is a song by Aerosmith, released in August 5, 1997 through Columbia Records. It was released as the second major single from the album Nine Lives in 1997. The song was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and professional songwriter and longtime Aerosmith collaborator Desmond Child.
The song reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #29 in the United Kingdom, and #4 in Latvia. The Music video directed by Andy Morahan featured a nerdy high school student (played by Branden Williams), often picked on, who is unsuccessful in finding the right girl.
He uses his scientific genius to build a cloning machine and creates a beautiful girl (played by Eva Mendes), but she meets someone else at a party. He creates another who he also loses to a football player (played by Seann William Scott). A classmate (played by Alexandra Holden) discovers his machine and stops him from creating another girl for himself, and he realizes the girl for him had been there all along.
Tracklist:
- Hole in My Soul
- Falling Off
Aerosmith
Steven Tyler: lead vocals, keyboards, hand organ, piano, harmonica, hammer dulcimer, percussion
Joe Perry: guitar, slide guitar, dulcimer, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Falling Off”
Brad Whitford: guitar, acoustic guitar
Tom Hamilton: bass guitar, Chapman Stick
Joey Kramer: drums
Additional personnel
David Campbell: arranger, conductor
Ramesh Mishra: sarangi
John Webster: keyboards, backing vocals
Suzie Katayama: strings, conductor
