| "Say You'll Haunt Me" | ||||
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| Single by Stone Sour | ||||
| from the album Audio Secrecy | ||||
| Released | July 6, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2010 at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, United States | |||
| Genre | Post-grunge, alternative metal | |||
| Length | 4:40 (Music Video) 4:24 (Album Version) 4:02 (Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Writer(s) | (Lyrics) Corey Taylor, (Music) Stone Sour | |||
| Producer | Nick Raskulinecz | |||
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"Say You'll Haunt Me" is the first single from alternative metal band, Stone Sour's third album Audio Secrecy which was released on September 7, 2010 via Roadrunner Records.[1] The song was released to the public on July 6, 2010.[2] The song has received radio airplay on several major rock and metal stations nationally in the US. The digital single was released through Amazon & iTunes on July 20, 2010.
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Frontman Corey Taylor told The Pulse of Radio, that it took him a while to warm up to “Say You’ll Haunt Me” during the making of the record. “It was one of those songs, that I didn’t really feel until it was finished,” he said. “I enjoyed the lyrics, but I wasn’t sure about the music. I’d come in and I’d sang it, and I put my heart into it, because the lyrics are about my wife and how I feel about my wife, and then I left. And I came back and they [the rest of the band] had just made it incredible. Now I can’t get it out of my head.”
The band has shot a music video, directed by Paul R. Brown.[3] The video premiered on July 27, 2010.[4]
The video begins with a car (1972 Plymouth Barracuda) pulling into a creepy alleyway with Corey Taylor being pulled out of the trunk by his bandmates. He is then lead upstairs to be strapped into a chair and danced on by a woman who seems to have an aggression towards him. As this is happening, ghostly images of the band perform in front of each member, the video also features these images solo inside an abandoned warehouse including Taylor. Taylor is then blindfolded and then a weird screen is brought out. The blindfold is then taken off, revealing it is the woman from before. At the end of the solo and the final "everything to" someone presses the button and Corey is then seen singing on the screen. The lady panics from this sight and the rest of the band have smiles on their faces. At the end of the video the band leaves the lady tied. Right before it fades to black, the screen says "What did you see?" This was part of a contest that the band held to see the concept of the video, which had a code which read "I am you" which explains the fact Corey was replaced with the woman.
The video uses the album version, not the short radio edit.
In the week of October 2, 2010, "Say You'll Haunt Me" reached #1 on both the U.S. Billboard Rock Songs chart and the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In doing so, it became Stone Sour's first single to reach #1 on the Rock Songs chart and their second single, after Through Glass, to reach #1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[5] It also began impacting pop, as Sirius XM Hits 1 added the song in August 2010, making it the band's third pop single after Bother (2002) & Through Glass (2006).
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs[6] | 8 |
| U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[7] | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[8] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Rock Songs[9] | 1 |
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