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The song was released as a digital download on June 23, 2009, and as the first single from Jay-Z's 11th studio album, The Blueprint 3. The song made its world premiere on the New York radio station Hot 97 on June 5. [1] Its lyrics address the overusage of Auto-Tune in the music industry.
The live version was included on the 1993 EP Five Live, credited to 'George Michael with Queen & Lisa Stansfield'. [14] The song was played on the 2005/2006 Queen + Paul Rodgers tours with vocals provided by Roger Taylor. On stage the song was accompanied by a video of the band in their early days in Japan, including many shots focusing on past ...
The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has, temporarily, survived a mid-air collision.In his dying words, he describes in graphic detail what he remembered of the collision and his current condition: his arms have been severed, his co-pilot is already lifeless beside him, blood is rapidly leaving his body and pooling underneath him, and a paramedic indicates that no medical ...
03 Bonnie & Clyde" features drums and live instrumentation such as bass instruments and guitar chords. [4] It also consists of a beat sampled from "Me and My Girlfriend". [6] The song was inspired by the 1967 American crime film Bonnie and Clyde [9] as Jay-Z and Knowles proclaim themselves as the current version of the criminal duo. [10]
The band claimed it was the hardest song from In Your Honor to play live. "DOA" was played often on the In Your Honor tour and the Echoes Silence Patience and Grace tour. It was played just once on the Wasting Light tour. It was not played again until the Sonic Highways tour in 2015, where it was requested by a group of fans.
In the United Kingdom, the single entered at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. The next week, "Young Forever" climbed eight places to number 19. A few weeks later, the song peaked at number 10 on the chart. In Ireland, the single entered at number 36 the Irish Singles Chart. A week later, "Young Forever" climbed five places in the chart to ...
The song was inspired by the life and exploits of Martin Luther King Jr., with the lyrics recounting a man battling and overcoming the odds. [5] In the 2011 BBC documentary, Queen: Days of Our Lives , Taylor stated his lyrics were "sort of half nicked off Martin Luther King's famous speech ". [ 6 ]
The song is a mash-up that fuses rock and hip hop, combining lyrics from "Numb" by Linkin Park and "Encore" by Jay-Z, both released in 2003. The only single released from the EP, the track went on to reach number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard also placed the single at number 93 on their Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2005 chart.