 | Use SomebodyKings of Leon |
Writer(s): Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill (see lyrics here) Released: October 4, 2008 First Charted: December 8, 2008 Peak: 4 US, 13 AC, 12 AAA, 25 AR, 13 MR, 2 UK, 8 CN, 2 AU, 7 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): 4.07 US, 1.8 UK, 6.64 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 0.7 radio, 323.5 video, 625.03 streaming |
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About the Song:“Kings of Leon took several years and several albums to catch on with American audiences, but 2008’s Only by the Night finally did the trick. ‘Use Somebody’ is the album’s peak, an elegant and soulful mid-tempo song about being separated by geography from the one you love. Vocalist Caleb Followill was perfection at making longing seem sexy and romantic.” TG New Musical Express magazine’s Gavin Haynes called the song “the best ‘80s power ballad of 2008.” WK Caleb wrote it as an apology to bandmates after a drunken fight. He was recovering from shoulder surgery at his farmhouse in Tennessee and, as he said, “allowed myself to be vulnerable in my writing…No longer trying to be a tough guy and admitting I need the people around me.” SF Still, he didn’t want to embrace its hit potential. He told Q magazine “It’s got the exact same chords as Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes ‘Up Where We Belong.’ It was so immediate that I thought it was terrible. I thought it was a pop song.” SF That may be why he told Uncut magazine that he “felt immediately that it was a big song and it scared me away.” SF The song spent 77 weeks in the top 75 of the UK charts, making it one of the five longest runners of all time. One of the other five? “Sex on Fire,” the first single from the Only by the Night album. WK The song won Grammys for Record of the Year, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. Resources:
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Last updated 10/21/2022. |
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