Are You Gonna Be My Girl

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“Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
“Are You Gonna Be My Girl” cover
Single by Jet
from the album Get Born
Released 25 August 2003
Format CD
Recorded 2003
Genre Hard rock
Length 3:33
Label Elektra
Producer Dave Sardy
Jet singles chronology
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
(2003)		 "Rollover DJ"
(2003)

"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the UK, and in 2004 in the United States. The song is often cited for similarities to Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"[1][2] and The White Stripes "Screwdriver". It was rated #11 on VH1's Best Rock Songs Ever.

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[edit] Charts

The song peaked at #20 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, while in the UK Singles Chart it first appeared on the charts at #23. The single was re-released in the UK in 2004, after it was featured on advertisements for the Apple iPod, and this time reached #16 on the charts. It also gave the band success in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, peaking at #29. The song also reached #1 on Australian youth radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2003.

Charts (2003) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 20
UK Singles Chart 16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 29

[edit] Covers and acoustic/live versions

An acoustic version of the song features on the bonus CD of Get Born. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered it in a Vegas Lounge style on the 2004 album I'd Like a Virgin. Australian singer Delta Goodrem covered the song on her Visualise Tour in 2005.

[edit] Music video

The music video is shot in black and white, and shows Jet performing in a blank studio. As they play, black ink starts pouring out of their equipment and forms a landscape resembling the cover art on their album Get Born and The Beatles album Revolver.

[edit] Use in other media

The song has been featured in numerous other media, including the feature films EuroTrip (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Flushed Away (2006) What Happens In Vegas...; episodes of the television shows Scrubs, One Tree Hill, Zoey 101; and video games Rock Band, SingStar Rocks!, Guitar Hero: On Tour, Madden NFL 2004 and Taiko Drum Master. (or Taiko No Tatsujin). It was also used in advertisements for Apple Inc.'s iPod and Vodafone's Live! range. Wrestler, Victoria Crawford used "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" as her entrance theme in Ohio Valley Wrestling. It was also used in a 2008 Budweiser commercial.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
  2. "Last Chance"
  3. "Hey Kids"
  4. "You Were Right"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Rolling Stone album review
  2. ^ musicOMH.com single review
Preceded by
Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows		 Triple J Hottest 100 #1s
2003		 Succeeded by
Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out