Weightless (All Time Low song)

"Weightless"
Single by All Time Low
from the album Nothing Personal
Released March 24, 2009 (2009-03-24)
Format Single
Recorded 2009
Genre Pop punk, Alternative rock
Length 3:18
Label Hopeless
All Time Low singles chronology
"Poppin' Champagne"
(2008)		 "Weightless"
(2009)		 "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)"
(2009)

"Weightless" is a song by American pop punk band All Time Low and the lead single from their third studio album Nothing Personal (2009). The single was released through Hopeless Records as a digital download on April 7, 2009, and was released in the UK on August 3, 2009.[1] The song is also available to download on the music video games Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5.

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Meaning

Lead vocalist Alex Gaskarth stated in an interview with MTVu that "the whole mentality of the song is like, you feel like you're stuck in this like, negative space and you just want to get out. Summer's rolling up and uh, everybody's finishing up with school and everybody's getting like the exam beatdown".

In the Nothing Personal album trailer, Jack Barakat said that the song is about not wanting to grow up and just wanting to be a kid.

Music video

The music video for "Weightless" commenced filming on May 20, directed by Matthew Stawski.[2] Fans were invited to go on the set and be a part of the music video. It debuted on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and HITS the day before the album's release, on 6 July 2009.[3][4] The video features cameo appearances by Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy and Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 with a joke that Pete Wentz tweets [on mobile Twitter] that All Time Low rips off Fall Out Boy but Mark Hoppus thinks to himself that All Time Low and Fall Out Boy rip off Blink-182. The camera follows the action through the venue, with text that is insulting everyone. The video ends with the slogan Nothing Personal, which is not only a reference to the album, but the theme of the video too.[2]

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Bubbling Under Hot 100[5] 4
UK Singles Chart 100

References

  1. ^ "All Time Low Confirm UK Release Details for 'Nothing Personal'". Rocklouder. http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/7623/All-Time-Low-Confirm-UK-Release-Details-For-Nothing-Personal.html. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
  2. ^ a b "New Video: All Time Low, ‘Weightless’". MTV Buzzworthy Blog. http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/07/06/new-video-all-time-low-weightless/. Retrieved 2009-07-07. 
  3. ^ "All Time Low streaming Nothing Personal on MTV.com". Alternative Punk. http://altpress.com/news/7435.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
  4. ^ "MTV.Com to Premiere All Time Low's New Album, Nothing Personal". Altsounds. http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/108610-mtv-com-to-premiere-all-time-lows-new-album-nothing-personal.html. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
  5. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Bubbling+Under+Hot+100+Singles

External links

All Time Low
Alex Gaskarth · Jack Barakat · Zack Merrick · Rian Dawson
Studio albums
and singles
"I Feel Like Dancin'" · "Forget About It" · "Time-Bomb"
Extended plays
The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End · Put Up or Shut Up · Live from MySpace Secret Shows · Live Sessions · MTV Unplugged: All Time Low · All Time Low Live EP (iTunes Exclusive)
Live albums
Other songs

Coffee Shop Soundtrack

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