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"Drive By" peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's third (and final) top 10 hit in the US. It was awarded a double platinum certification by the RIAA on July 23, 2012, for more than 2 million sales in the US. [2] Internationally, the song became a top ten hit in 13 countries.
The Cars had four Top 10 hits: "Shake It Up" (1981), "You Might Think" (1984), "Drive" (1984), and "Tonight She Comes" (1985). The band won Video of the Year for "You Might Think" at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. The Cars disbanded in 1988. [3] Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer.
Like many other Cars songs, "Since You're Gone" had a music video created to accompany it, which starred Ric Ocasek "moping around an empty apartment". [1] The video received adequate airplay on MTV at the time. [1] According to Thomas, the video is one of the Cars' best. [7]
Gary Brolsma, aka "The Numa Numa guy" "1-800-273-8255" – a song by Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid mainly focusing on the topic of suicide and suicide prevention. Its title is a direct reference to the United States National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's phone number, although as of 2022 the Lifeline is known as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline as its number is now 988.
A car song is a song with lyrics or musical themes pertaining to car travel. Though the earliest forms appeared in the 1900s, car songs emerged in full during the 1950s as part of rock and roll and car culture, but achieved their peak popularity in the West Coast of the United States during the 1960s with the emergence of hot rod rock as an outgrowth of the surf music scene.
The music video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton and features then-19-year-old model and actress Paulina Porizkova, who would later become Ric Ocasek's third wife. [ 14 ] The video alternates between shots of Orr sitting in a disused nightclub, facing mannequins posed at the bar as customers and bartender, and scenes that depict the ...
The following is a list of the MuchMusic Video Awards winners and nominees for Best Video. 1990s. Year Artist Video ... "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" [5] Jann Arden
The music video is one of the first to use computer graphics. The video features Ocasek and model Susan Gallagher in a series of quirky encounters. [ 4 ] Ocasek appears in her bathroom mirror, inside a large periscope that pops up in her bathtub, in her mouth, as a fly, as King Kong on top of the Empire State Building and as the Robot Monster ...