Mad Season (song)

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“Mad Season”
“Mad Season” cover
Single by Matchbox Twenty
from the album Mad Season
Released 2001
Format CD single / Audio cassette
Recorded 1999
Genre Alternative Rock
Post-Grunge
Length 5:02
Label Atlantic
Producer Matt Serletic
Matchbox Twenty singles chronology
"If You're Gone"
(2000)
"Mad Season"
(2001)
"Angry"
(2001)

"Mad Season" is the title-track and third single off Matchbox Twenty's second album, Mad Season. The song peaked to #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #76 on the UK Singles Chart.

[edit] Music video

The song's music video, directed by Phil Harder, shows the band getting off a plane, and being surrounded by screaming fans trying to grab them. They are wearing what appear to be special passes, which say "Rock Star" on them, around their necks. Police are there trying to keep everything under control. The band eventually makes it safely to their limousine, but then the crowd climbs all over the car, and it can't go anywhere. The police fail to keep things under control, and the fans break the windows of the limousine. When they get inside, they rip the "Rock Star" passes off the band members, and then they leave. This suggests that they didn't really care about the band; they just wanted the passes.

[edit] Chart positions

Charts Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 42
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 48
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 20
UK Singles Chart 76
New Zealand Singles Chart 34