Where'd You Go
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| Single by Fort Minor featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga from the album The Rising Tied |
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| Released | April 10, 2006 | ||||
| Format | CD single, Digital download | ||||
| Recorded | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop | ||||
| Length | 3:51 | ||||
| Label | Machine Shop Recordings Warner Bros. Records |
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| Producer | Mike Shinoda, Jay-Z | ||||
| Fort Minor featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga singles chronology | |||||
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"Where'd You Go" is the fourth single from Fort Minor's debut album The Rising Tied. Released in 2006, the song features Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga. The song is about the perspective of the person left behind in long-distance relationships, but mainly about the consequences of putting one's career before one's family.
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[edit] Music Video
The music video for "Where'd You Go" features interviews with a boy named Joey Leba, who has divorced parents, the wife of a baseball player Jon Garland caring for their children, and the parents of a soldier killed in Iraq. At the end of the video, a brief note states: "'Where'd You Go' was filmed in the homes of three families who share the same sense of loneliness as this song. Thank you for sharing your homes and stories with us. — Mike Shinoda, Fort Minor".
[edit] MTV contest
In June through July of 2006, Mike Shinoda in association with MTV's Overdrive hosted a contest, where US residents of 18 years or older, could remix the video, using the censored version of the track, could submit the video, in hopes of winning prizes from Mike Shinoda and MTV.
On July 31, 2006, the winner was announced. The winning video was directed by David Ly, a graduate film student at Art Center College of Design, coincidentally Mike Shinoda's alma mater. His remake version of the video is about a person who lost touch with himself. He is full of life until he becomes a robot working a monotonous office job. One morning, he wakes up from a dream of a beautiful girl dressed in white on the beach. He leaves for work, and his buried alter egos emerge mysteriously. They are all dressed in white dress shirts, black slacks, and an assortment of colored ties and each holding a red and white rose. At work, his boss gives him a stack of paperwork, which he does mechanically. Meanwhile, at home, the alter egos are in a circle around his coffee table, throw the roses in the center, and leave. Back at work, he prepares to go home but is then given another stack of documents. His frustrations boil over, and he throws his tie at his boss. He runs home not knowing what he is running for, and at the moment that he walks in the door, the last of the alter egos exits. He finds a white box that replaced his coffee table and is intrigued. He unwraps the red and white ribbons and opens the box to find himself on the beach with the same girl in his dream and the roses on the water.[1]
In 2007, The Deaf Performing Artists Network (D-PAN) created a music video for "Where'd You Go" using all deaf and hard-of-hearing actors. The entire song is performed in American Sign Language with some subtitles, and can be viewed on their website. In the video, the profanity is censored in the vocal track but is clearly signed by the actors.
[edit] Commercial sucsess
"Where'd You Go" is Fort Minor's most successful single. It has reached #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reached #1 on MTV's TRL, where it was performed live with Holly Brook on May 1. It won the award for best ringtone in the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.
[edit] Format & Track listing
Retail Single Track listing
- "Where'd You Go" [Single Version] (commercially available single version)
- "Where'd You Go" [Big Bad Remix] (remixed by Brad Delson of Linkin Park)
- "Where'd You Go" [S.O.B. Remix] (remixed by DJ Cheapshot and Vin Skully of Styles of Beyond)*
*Not on every single available.
Promo Industry CD Track Listing
- "Where'd You Go" (Album Version)
- "Where'd You Go" (Radio Version)
- "Where'd You Go" (Instrumental)
- "Where'd You Go" (Album A Capella)
- "Where'd You Go" (Radio A Capella)
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
| Billboard Pop 100 | 3 |
| Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 5 |
| Billboard Pop 100 Airplay | 2 |
| New Zealand Single Chart | 14 |
| Australian Single Chart | 41 |
| French Single Chart | 24 |
| Finnish Single Chart | 8 |
| Dutch Single Chart | 15 |
| Austrian Single Chart | 29 |
| Swiss Single Chart | 62 |
| German Top 40 | 20 |
| China Top 20 | 13 |
| World RnB Top 30 Singles | 3 |
| World Singles Official Top 100 | 88 |
| Airplay World Official Top 100 | 76 |
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