Hot Blooded
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This article is about the song. For the biological term, see Warm-blooded.
| "Hot Blooded" | ||||
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| Single by Foreigner | ||||
| from the album Double Vision | ||||
| B-side | "Tramontane" | |||
| Released | July 1, 1978 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1977–1978 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 3:06 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Writer(s) | Lou Gramm, Mick Jones | |||
| Producer | Keith Jones, Keith Olsen | |||
| Foreigner singles chronology | ||||
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"Hot Blooded" is a song by the British-American hard rock band Foreigner, from their second studio album Double Vision. It was released as a single in July 1978 and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that September. The single was also certified Platinum (one million units sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America.
[edit] In popular culture
- It is used in "Weird Al" Yankovic's first polka medley "Polkas on 45" from his 1984 album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D.
- It is used in the TV series WKRP In Cincinnati, in the episode "A Date With Jennifer".
- It was sampled by Tone Loc for the song Funky Cold Medina.
- It is used in the TV series Supernatural, in the season one episode "Wendigo".
- It is used in the TV series Bones, in the season one episode, Two Bodies in the Lab, where Booth gets maimed by a refrigerator rigged to blow up, and season five, Rocker in the Rinse Cycle.
- Two episodes of The Simpsons have used this song, once in a montage during "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" (using the actual song), and in "They Saved Lisa's Brain", where Homer performs a parody of the song covered in popcorn kernels ("hot buttered") as the talent show act "Homer Simpson and his Amazing Redenbacher Dreamcoat".
- It is used in the 2009 comedy-drama film Adventureland, during the scene in which Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg enter a bar.
- It was featured in a Diet Pepsi commercial where a man wishes he wants his old jeans back once again.
- It is parodied in the 2010 TV series The Office, when Ed Helms sings a version of the song with the lyrics "hot pizza."
- Master recording is downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 3.
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