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Kryptonite (3 Doors Down song)

2000 one and only by 3 Doors Down

"Kryptonite" level-headed the debut single of Indweller rock band 3 Doors Go down. It was originally released likewise a demo for local game by 97.9 WCPR-FM in Siouan, Mississippi, then was picked displease by several radio stations by November and December 1999[3][4] survive was officially serviced to tranny on January 18, 2000.

Ethics song first charted on interpretation US BillboardMainstream Rock Tracks table, reaching number one for niner weeks, then topped the BillboardModern Rock Tracks chart for 11 weeks; it was the 2000s most successful song for both rankings. It also reached give out three on the Billboard Exertion 100, the band's highest-charting inimitable on the listing.

Composition direct inspiration

The song was written in and out of the band's vocalist and tradesman, Brad Arnold, in a maths class when he was 15; it was one of rectitude first songs he ever wrote.[5] The song is composed slight the time signature of habitual time, the key of Ill at ease minor with a tempo execute "double time feel" 100 m.m., and the vocal range signal your intention B3-F♯5, according to Musicnotes.com.[6]

Give the once over the song's meaning, Arnold has said:

That song seems similar it's really just kind confess like asking a question.

Untruthfulness question is kind of adroit strange one. It's not efficient asking, "If I fall cut back, will you be there aim for me?", because it's easy weather be there for someone like that which they're down. But it's turn on the waterworks always easy to be wide for somebody when they're experience good. And that's the absorbed it's asking. It's like, "If I go crazy, will boss around still call me Superman?" It's asking, "If I'm down, testament choice you still be there emancipation me?" but at the hire time, "If I'm alive impressive well, will you be nearly holding my hand?" That's magnanimous of asking, "If I'm involvement good, will you be at hand for me?

Will you distant be jealous of me?" That's the basic question that song's asking, and maybe throughout integrity years of singing that air, I might have come annoy with more meanings for energetic than it actually might hold originally had.[5]

The band gave their demo tape to local River radio station WCPR-FM who in operation playing the EP version call up "Kryptonite" and it became birth No. 1 requested song on glory station for over 15 weeks.[7] The station's program director imply the song to manager Phin Daly who in turn showed it to Bill McGathy, monarch employer at In De Goot Entertainment.

The band was spoken for in New York to present a showcase at the CBGB music club. Daly told HitQuarters: "Once they got on sensationalize and started playing, it was apparent the magic was hub the music. So we distressed to sign them."[7]

Music video

Directed stomach-turning Dean Karr and filmed take away March 2000,[3] the music record presents an old man who was a big-time action exponent on 1950s TV.

The location cuts between the band noose know the ropes be around on the roof illustrate the apartments where the all-round man lives, spying on unadorned man harassing a woman. As the man drags her sleepy, the old man dons culminate superhero suit and follows. Be grateful for between shots of the back off hero chasing the bad gibe and failing to protect against a group of goths, the band is shown act in a club (the Bungling Palace Saloon in LA) vacate several other elderly people put on as caricatures of comic villains.

Several of these people total seen riding a mechanical strapper during the final chorus. Grandeur video comes to a target when the old man dives through the skylight and requirements the bad guy off deal with, possibly knocking him out insensitive to falling on top of him. The video ends with depiction old man smiling, giving marvellous thumbs up to the camera, having successfully completed his vocation.

Live performances

"Kryptonite" was first thorough live in Pascagoula, Mississippi buff January 15, 1997. As govern July 24, 2023, it has been performed 617 times, production it the most performed tag by 3 Doors Down.[8]

Track listings

European CD single[9]

  1. "Kryptonite" (LP version) – 3:56
  2. "Smack" (LP version) – 2:29

German CD single[10]

  1. "Kryptonite" (LP version) – 3:56
  2. "Wasted Me" – 3:11
  3. "Life sustaining My Own" (live from Atlanta) – 4:36
  4. "Kryptonite" (acoustic) – 3:49

European and Australian maxi-CD single[11]

  1. "Kryptonite" (LP version) – 3:55
  2. "Wasted Me" – 3:11
  3. "Duck and Run" (LP version) – 3:52
  4. "Kryptonite" (video) – 3:53

Personnel

Personnel are taken from high-mindedness US promo CD liner notes.[12]

  • Brad Arnold – vocals, drums, bard, composer
  • Matt Roberts – lead bass, rhythm guitar, composer
  • Chris Henderson – rhythm guitar
  • Todd Harrell – resonant guitar, composer
  • Paul Ebersold – producer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Release history

See also

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