| "You Might Think" | ||||
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| Single by The Cars | ||||
| from the album Heartbeat City | ||||
| B-side |
"Heartbeat City" (US) "I Refuse" (UK) 7", (US) 12" |
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| Released | March 1984 (US) November 1984 (UK) |
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| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1983-1984 | |||
| Genre | New wave, Art rock, Power pop | |||
| Length | 3:04 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Writer(s) | Ric Ocasek | |||
| Producer | Robert John "Mutt" Lange The Cars |
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"You Might Think" is a single by The Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City, which came out in 1984. The track was written by Ric Ocasek, and produced by Mutt Lange and The Cars. Ocasek sang lead vocals.
The track was the first single to be released off Heartbeat City. Thanks in part to a striking video, "You Might Think" became a substantial hit in the US (peaking at #7) and in Canada (peaking at #8). It also peaked at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US, the first song by the band to do so. In the UK, however, the track only made it to #88 on the pop charts.
In 2011 Weezer remade the song for Cars 2 and its movie soundtrack.
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The music video is one of the first videos to use computer graphics. The video features band leader Ric Ocasek and model Susan Gallagher in a series of encounters.[1] Ocasek appears in her bathroom mirror, in her mouth, as a fly, and as the Robot Monster, among other incarnations.
"You Might Think" won the first MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for five more awards (best special effects, best art direction, viewer's choice, best concept video, and most experimental video) at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards. The video also won five awards (best overall, best conceptual, most innovative, best editing, and best special effects)[2] at Billboard's 1984 Video Music Awards and four awards (best achievement in music video, best editor in music video, best engineer in music video, and best camera in music video) at the Videotape Production Association's 1985 Monitor Awards.[3]
Jeff Stein, and Alex Weil and Charlie Levi of VFX company Charlex, directed and produced the video. Danny Rosenberg and Bill Weber served both as editors and video engineers, Kevin Jones was the lighting director, Danny Ducovny the cinematographer and Bob Ryzner the art director.[4][5] The video cost $80,000 to make which was almost triple the average music video budget of the time.[6]
The model in the video is often mistaken for Ocasek's future wife, Paulina Porizkova. Porizkova appears in the video of "Drive".
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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| Canadian RPM 100 | 8 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 49 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 27 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 20 |
| UK Singles Chart | 88 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 7 |
| US Billboard Top Rock Tracks | 1 |
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