Mz. Hyde

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"Mz. Hyde"
Single by Halestorm
from the album The Strange Case Of...
ReleasedOctober 21, 2013
Genre Hard rock [1]
Length3:22
Songwriter(s) Lzzy Hale, Scott Stevens
Halestorm singles chronology
"Here's to Us"
(2013)
"Mz. Hyde"
(2013)
"Apocalyptic"
(2015)

"Mz. Hyde" is a song by the hard rock band Halestorm. It is taken from their second album, The Strange Case Of... [2] and was released as a single on October 21, 2013. The music video for the song was released to YouTube on February 4, 2014. [3]

According to Lzzy Hale, she wrote "Mz. Hyde" as a reflection of having two sides to her life, both on and off stageshe said that "For years I've been writing about these two sides of myself, and I wanted to capture that in a song." [4] The title is an allusion to the classic novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
US Mainstream Rock [5] 15

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