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About This Track
“The Pretender” is the first single from the Foo Fighters’ 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.
In a 2007 interview with XFM, frontman Dave Grohl stopped short of explaining the meaning behind “The Pretender,” but alluded its roots go to current political unrest. Grohl noted:
That’s the thing with lyrics, you never want to give away specifics, because it’s nice for people to have their own idea or interpretation of the song. But, you know, everyone’s been fucked over before and I think a lot of people feel fucked over right now and they’re not getting what they were promised, and so something to do with that.
Grohl also told XFM “The Pretender” wasn’t initially planned for the album and happened really quickly.
That song didn’t happen until later on in the session. We didn’t go into making the record with that song and it happened after we recorded a lot of stuff. Up until that point, I didn’t know if we had a good opening song or not. So after we recorded it, I thought, ‘oh this is perfect, we have the song to open the record,’ and it just became everybody’s favorite song. … It’s the type of song that I look forward to opening shows with and it came together really easily. We put that song together in, I don’t know, a day, whereas a lot of the other songs we worked on for weeks.”
MUSIC VIDEO
The video was directed by Sam Brown. It is presented in letterbox format and heavily employs pans, zooms, and tracking shots. It consists of the band performing the song in an airplane hangar with many strip lights on the ceiling. Behind the band is a large red screen, which is thick and solid. The band is then faced by what appears to be a riot police officer, who stands behind a black line on the floor, around 30 feet or so from the band.
The Pretender” is the first single from the Foo Fighters’ 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.In a 2007 interview with XFM, frontman Dave Grohl stopped short of explaining the meaning behind “The Pretender,” but alluded its roots go to current political unrest. Grohl noted:
That’s the thing with lyrics, you never want to give away specifics, because it’s nice for people to have their own idea or interpretation of the song. But, you know, everyone’s been fucked over before and I think a lot of people feel fucked over right now and they’re not getting what they were promised, and so something to do with that.
Grohl also told XFM “The Pretender” wasn’t initially planned for the album and happened really quickly.
That song didn’t happen until later on in the session. We didn’t go into making the record with that song and it happened after we recorded a lot of stuff. Up until that point, I didn’t know if we had a good opening song or not. So after we recorded it, I thought, ‘oh this is perfect, we have the song to open the record,’ and it just became everybody’s favorite song. … It’s the type of song that I look forward to opening shows with and it came together really easily. We put that song together in, I don’t know, a day, whereas a lot of the other songs we worked on for weeks.”
MUSIC VIDEO
The video was directed by Sam Brown. It is presented in letterbox format and heavily employs pans, zooms, and tracking shots. It consists of the band performing the song in an airplane hangar with many strip lights on the ceiling. Behind the band is a large red screen, which is thick and solid. The band is then faced by what appears to be a riot police officer, who stands behind a black line on the floor, around 30 feet or so from the band.
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Shouts
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Saardias wrote:
just something really amateurish http://snd.sc/A7pYru
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keanequeen wrote:
\o/
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Ms_Aricalika wrote:
goo goo fighters [2]
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gferro1 wrote:
My favorite FF's song is "Walk", then comes "The Pretender'......stunning!!! Love the video!
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blobbyba wrote:
goo goo fighters
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HarryYUE777 wrote:
great song. this is real rock n' roll
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Nygen-van-Tok wrote:
1596 shouts +1 GEIL
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
SO GOOD.
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KimEnvivi wrote:
♥
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Rhys2SkilleD wrote:
epic.
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bhangraprincess wrote:
One of my favorite songs by them!
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FeXYSpartan wrote:
So who are you? Yea who are you? YOUR DAD, SON!
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FeXYSpartan wrote:
cool
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HelterSkelterCt wrote:
They're great!
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samavayo wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UygvcwN4JTA
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KozMix120 wrote:
Great song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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B4Rc31onA wrote:
i wish this song was never ending... oh well same old story
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NLC_yahoo_girl wrote:
Freakin love this song! I love to blast it on my stereo <3
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michael_paige wrote:
Incredible song! Genius!
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Marjo47 wrote:
me neither, love it.
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