Gives You Hell

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"Gives You Hell"
Single by The All-American Rejects
from the album When the World Comes Down
Released September 30, 2008 (2008-09-30)
(See release history)
Format CD, digital, vinyl
Genre Alternative rock
Power pop
Emo-pop
Length 3:33
Label DGC/Interscope
Writer(s) Nick Wheeler & Tyson Ritter
Producer Eric Valentine
Certification Platinum (ARIA)[1]
4x Multi-Platinum (RIAA)[2]
Gold (RIANZ)[3]
The All-American Rejects singles chronology
"It Ends Tonight"
(2006)		 "Gives You Hell"
(2008)		 "The Wind Blows"
(2009)
Alternative covers
Maxi single
CD single

"Gives You Hell" is a song by The All-American Rejects that was released as the lead single from their 2008 album, When the World Comes Down. The song became the band's first number-one song on the Mainstream Top 40 and Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks charts, and also peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard announced at the end of 2009 that the song was the most played song of 2009 on their Top 40 Chart, making it The All-American Rejects' most successful song to date. The song is the 42nd biggest selling rock song of the 21st century in the United Kingdom.[4]

Contents

[edit] Tracklist

CD single
No. Title Length
1. "Gives You Hell" (Album Version) 3:33
2. "Gives You Hell" (Limousine Remix) 3:23
3. "Gives You Hell" (Music Video) 3:38
Maxi single
No. Title Length
1. "Gives You Hell" (Album Version) 3:33
2. "Gives You Hell" (Limousine Remix) 3:25
3. "On the Floor" (Demo) 2:53
4. "Gives You Hell" (Music Video)  
7" Vinyl Picture Disc
  • Side A: "Gives You Hell" (Album Version)
  • Side B: "On the Floor" (Demo)

[edit] Music video

The main music video for the single, was directed by Marc Webb. Lead vocalist Tyson Ritter plays the dual roles of a traditional family man and his rowdy next-door neighbor who fronts a noisy garage band, which includes the other members of The All-American Rejects. When the rocker's nocturnal racket keeps the family-man awake at night, it sets off a prank war. The conflict comes to a head one evening as the neighbors confront each other outdoors where people are yelling the chorus of "Gives You Hell". As the two neighbors bicker, their wives quietly propose swapping spouses. The family man seems oddly intrigued by the offer, and the two men have switched homes by the video's end, with the family man singing with his rival's garage band, and the rocker sleeps with his rival's wife. In the iTunes version, at the end the family man seems more hesitant while singing at the end, and the rocker is helping the wife feed fish.

Two other versions of the video have been released online, which focus entirely on either the "Full Performance", or the "Full Narrative". The second version is just The All-American Rejects (the garage band) performing "Gives You Hell" in its entirety. The third version is completely story-oriented, with the only performance footage shots used as part of the plot.

[edit] Chart performance and certifications

The song entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at #69. It climbed the chart steadily for 7 weeks before breaking into the Top 10 at #10,[5] giving the band their 3rd Top 10 hit on the chart. The next week the song rose to #6 where it stayed for 5 consecutive weeks before rising to peak at #4, making it the band's most successful single to date and their 1st to break into the Top 5.

"Gives You Hell" hit #1 on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream on March 14, 2009, and remained there for 3 more weeks. The song later reached #1 on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks, for the week of May 23. "Gives You Hell" held the position for 2 more weeks. The song made an impressive performance and stayed on the Billboard Top 10 charts for over 13 weeks.

"Gives You Hell" was a success internationally and became The All-American Rejects' best-selling single worldwide. The track peaked in the Top 5 in Canada and Australia and in the Top 20 in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2009)[5] Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[5] 3
Austrian Singles Chart[5] 7
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[6] 3
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[7] 15
Canadian Hot 100[8] 4
Czech Radio Top 100[9] 10
Dutch Singles Chart[10] 38
French Singles Chart[5] 29
German Singles Chart[5] 15
Irish Singles Chart[5] 16
Japan Hot 100 Singles[11] 41
New Zealand Singles Chart[12] 18
Swiss Singles Chart[5] 30
Turkish Singles Chart[13] 20
UK Singles Chart[5] 18
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 4
US Billboard Pop 100 2
US Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks[15] 1
US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks[16] 25
US Billboard Mainstream Top 40[17] 1

[edit] Year-end charts

Chart (2009) Position
ARIA Singles Chart[18] 19
Canadian Hot 100 32
Dutch Top 40[19] 154
German Singles Chart[20] 66
Hungarian Singles Chart[21] 158
UK Singles Chart[22] 120
US Billboard Hot 100[23] 10

[edit] Certifications and sales

Country Certification Sales
Australia Platinum[1] 70,000+
New Zealand Gold[24] 7,500+
United Kingdom  ? 195,000
United States 4x Platinum[2] 4,000,000+

[edit] Release history

Region Release Date Distributing label Physical Format
United States[25] September 30, 2008 (2008-09-30) DGC/Interscope Records Promo Single Only
New Zealand[26] 2008 (2008) Universal Music Group CD Single
Australia January 17, 2009 (2009-01-17) CD Single
Canada January 26, 2009 (2009-01-26) Interscope Records CD Single
United Kingdom[27] February 2, 2009 (2009-02-02) Polydor Records CD Single
7" Vinyl
Germany[28][29] April 3, 2009 (2009-04-03) Universal Music Group 7" Vinyl
Maxi Single
Switzerland[30][31]

[edit] Appearances in media

"Gives You Hell" became a playable song via downloadable content in the Rock Band game series December 15, 2009, as well as in Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero on April 15, 2010. It was also used as playable content in Tap Tap Revenge 2 since 2009.

The song is also played at every home game for the Missouri Mavericks hockey team in Independence, Missouri.

[edit] Other versions

[edit] Remixes

Many remixes for the song have been released: the Ocelot Remix, the Bloody Beetroots Remix, the El-P Remix, as well as the Limousines Extended Remix. All four have were released as a digital only EP named Gives You Hell: The Remixes on February 3, 2009.[32] "The Limousines Extended Remix" was an extended version of "The Limousines Remix". "The Limousines Remix" can be found on the "Gives You Hell" CD single, as well as deluxe versions of When the World Comes Down.

[edit] Cover versions

  • Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) sang the song in an episode of Glee on April 13, 2010, titled "Hell-O". It went on to go to #1 on the Irish Singles Chart with a total of five weeks on the chart, and #14 in the United Kingdom Singles Chart with a total of four weeks on the chart. The cover spent two weeks charting in Canada and the United States each, peaking in the former at 17 and the later at 32. It also spent one week on the Australian ARIA Charts at number 47.
  • A version of the song by the Inevitable Backlash was released in 2010. This version reuses the lyrics, but omits the chorus and uses a different tune.

[edit] References

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  3. ^ "Latest Gold / Platinum Singles - RadioScope New Zealand". Radioscope.net.nz. http://www.radioscope.net.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=61. Retrieved 2011-08-08. 
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