Days Go By

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"Days Go By"
Single by Dirty Vegas
from the album Dirty Vegas
Released	2001
Recorded	2001
Genre	Electronica, dance, house
Length	7:07 (album version) 3:33 (radio edit)
Label	Capitol Records
Writer(s)	Victoria Horn, Steve Smith
Dirty Vegas singles chronology
"Days Go By" (2001) "Ghosts" (2002)

"Days Go By" is a 2001 song by the band Dirty Vegas from their eponymous album. The song became a radio hit in 2002, peaking at #14 in the U.S., and received the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. It also peaked at #16 in Dirty Vegas' home country, the U.K. ^[1] "Days Go By" received significant public exposure in a commercial for the 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse.

The music video for the song is unusual in that it largely consists of two dancers representing one character performing a routine of popping, locking, the robot and breakdancing. The performance occurs in front of Chroni's Famous Sandwich Shop in East Los Angeles, California, and tells the story of a dancer who shows up once a year and dances all day from sunrise to sunset. He dances in hopes of bringing back a lost love, who left him because he couldn't stop dancing. (The video even halts abruptly while some of the bystanders interject what they think happened to the aforementioned love.) The young dancer in the video is Garland Spencer. The older dancer is Byron McIntyre.

There are 2 versions of the music video; one has 3 of the onlookers observing from the restaurant while the other replaces those shots with shots of the same onlookers in a silver Mitsubishi Eclipse sitting at a stoplight. In addition to the replaced shots, the Eclipse version of the video includes footage of the approach to and departure from the stoplight.

[edit] Official versions

• "Days Go By" (Album Version) - 7:07
• "Days Go By" (7" Mix) - 3:33
• "Days Go By" (Acoustic) - 2:43
• "Days Go By" (Full Vocal Mix) - 10:12

[edit] Appearances in popular culture

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• The song was featured in a commercial for the 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse. In the commercial, a man is driving the Eclipse while a woman (Dusty Paik) dances to the beat of the song in the passenger seat.
  • The Eclipse commercial was in turn parodied by a skit on Chappelle's Show in which Dave Chappelle is driving a car and the woman is dancing in the passenger seat. Dave says, "What the fuck are you doing?" (due to the weird moves she is making) and then leaves her by the side of the road. He then puts on some hip-hop music and a black woman sits in the passenger seat and starts dancing. Although this is a parody of the Eclipse commercial, the car actually used in the commercial was Dave's own Nissan 350Z.

• The song is featured in the music video game DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution.

• On the November 28, 2006 episode of Standoff (which uses a cut version of another Dirty Vegas song) entitled Peer Group, the acoustic version of Days Go By (which was featured on Dirty Vegas' self-titled album as a bonus track) was played at the end of the episode.

• In 2006 a promotional video for HBO featured the acoustic version of the song.

Preceded by "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow

Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single June 8, 2002

Succeeded by "Hella Good" by No Doubt

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