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Starbelly is the second interlude on Pretty on the Inside. The song’s title is a reference to the story “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss, in which some of the “sneetches”, fictional bird-like animals, have stars on their bellies. The ones with stars treat the ones without the stars as lesser beings. This ties into Courtney Love’s hatred of elitism, a theme that would be expanded with Hole’s next album, Live Through This. The track is composed of a guitar riff and three distinct samples: a man talking about masochism