The City Is at War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page. Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed. For more information, particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion, read the guide to deletion. Steps to list an article for deletion: 1. {{subst:afd}} 2. {{subst:afd2|pg=The City Is at War|cat=|text=}} ~~~~ (categories) 3. {{subst:afd3|pg=Guilty Pleasure}} (add to top of list) 4. Please consider notifying the author(s) by placing {{subst:adw|The City Is at War|Guilty Pleasure}} ~~~~ on their talk page(s). |
| “The City Is at War” | ||
|---|---|---|
| Single by Cobra Starship from the album ¡Viva La Cobra! |
||
| Released | 2007 | |
| Genre | Pop-punk Alternative dance Alternative rock |
|
| Length | 2:51 | |
| Label | Fueled by Ramem | |
| Cobra Starship singles chronology | ||
| "Guilty Pleasure" (2006) |
"The City Is at War" (2007) |
|
"The City Is at War" is the second single off Cobra Starship's second album, ¡Viva La Cobra!. The song features background vocals by Fall Out Boy guitarist and vocalist Patrick Stump, who produced the album.
[edit] Music video
The video for "The City Is at War" premiered on MTV.com at 10:00pm on December 31, 2007. It was directed by Whitey McConnaughy and features the members of Cobra Starship as gangster-type characters all dressed entirely in white who kill people by hitting them with pies. This can be considered a homage to the film Bugsy Malone where the characters are also killed by pies. The band is also seen with large amounts of white powder and money, hinting at the cocaine trade. It is later revealed that this white powder is flour for the pies. Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy and Ben Jorgensen from Armor for Sleep make a cameo as beat cops trying to solve the murders. Doug also makes a cameo appearance as a pie victim, and has the two aforementioned cops walk over his body. The video ends with the band sitting around a table covered in the counterfeit money before each member reaches for a carefully concealed pie to throw at the others. The video cuts before we see any member of the band get "pied." [1]
|
|||||||||||||||||
