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"You're Gonna Go Far, Kid"
Song

"You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" is a punk rock song by The Offspring. It is the third track on the band's eighth studio album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) and was released as the second single off of the album on September 4, 2008. The song peaked at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and at #15 on the Australian Singles Chart. The song stayed at number one for 11 weeks, making it the longest consecutive run for any Offspring single at #1 and therefore one of the most commercially successful singles released by the band. It also reached #1 on KROQ's Top 106.7 songs of 2008 countdown list.[2]

"You're Gonna Go Far Kid" along with "Hammerhead" and "Half-Truism", was performed live before the release of Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace in promotion for the album.

Track listing

Digital download

No.TitleLength
1."You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" (Radio Edit)2:58

CD maxi

No.TitleLength
1."You're Gonna Go Far, Kid"2:57

Music video

The music video for this single was directed by Chris Hopewell, who has also directed videos for several other bands.[3] It was the first time that Hopewell and the Offspring had collaborated on a music video. On October 16, 2008 it was announced on The Offspring's official website that the video would debut Friday, October 17 at 3:00 pm Eastern/12 noon Pacific on Myspace.com.[4]

As in the videos for "Hammerhead" and "Hit That", the video contains largely CGI and does not include any footage of the band performing the song. However, unlike Hammerhead and Hit That, the video also contains live actors recorded by camera mixed in with the CGI effects.

The plot follows a peasant working in a garden in a dystopian future. Suddenly, a plant goddess appears and gives the peasant a magical, golden acoustic guitar and he begins strumming to the song. He enters town and plays for the locals. The magical abilities of the guitar make the peasant a sensation, earning him much needed money and causes various people to start dancing. The peasant then plays for plague infested townspeople and they are cured by the guitar. He then demands from one of them her expensive necklace while the plant goddess looks upon him with a disapproving look. The peasant moves onto a very expensive restaurant, but is denied entrance based on his appearance. He plays more to earn money for a nice suit. He buys the suit, enters the restaurant and begins to play his guitar for the wealthy socialites, for more money. The plant goddess punishes the peasant by first forcing him to dance alone to the magic, then dragging him into the ground. The guitar lands onto the floor and dissolves into leaves at the end of the song.

Charts

Chart Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 63
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks 1
Australian Singles Chart 54
Canadian Hot 100 25
Media Control Charts 67
New Zealand Singles Chart 28
Spanish Singles Chart 19

Sales

The song was certified Gold in the United States on April 2, 2009, selling over 500,000 copies.[5] It is the first Offspring single to reach Gold in the United States and was the best selling single from the album, which has yet to reach Gold status itself.

References

  1. ^ "RIAA Database Search for The Offspring" Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved on July 14, 2009.
  2. ^ http://www.radiohitlist.com/KROQ/KROQ-2008.htm
  3. ^ http://offspring.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Offspring.woa/wa/news?newsID=763626
  4. ^ http://www.offspring.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Offspring.woa/wa/news?newsID=763830
  5. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/riaa/singles.jsp
Preceded by Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
October 4, 2008 - December 13, 2008 		Succeeded by
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