Young Blood (The Naked and Famous song)
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"Young Blood" is a single
by New Zealand band The Naked and Famous
, released onto radio in May 2010. It was used in several indent commercials for C4, and received the 2010 Silver Scroll
for Song of the Year.
The single was released as a digital download
at the iTunes Store
on 7 June 2010. "Young Blood" debuted at number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart
, on 14 June 2010.
Chiddy Bang
did a remix of the song.
riff
. Kevin Harley of BBC Music
compared the song to the work of MGMT
. According to Godfrey de Grut of NZ Musician, "Young Blood" is set in the key
of F# Major, and follows the chord progression
of B–F–B–F–C–B–F–B–Dmin–C. The theme of "Young Blood" is that of "spirit of youth" and its loss, and contains a "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" hook
.
called it "one of the catchiest indie electro tunes I've heard in years". The New Zealand Herald
Scott Kara labelled "Young Blood" as "an inventive, rousing, and uplifting tune".
On 8 September 2010 "Young Blood" won the APRA Silver Scroll, a New Zealand peer-judged songwriting award. APRA's Anthony Healey stated, "Young Blood is outstanding; it's stroppy, it's youthful and energetic. It makes me want to be eighteen again". At the awards ceremony it was covered by reggae
band Three Houses Down. The Naked and Famous said being awarded with the honour was "surreal and intense".
's "Hold Out
" did so in November 2006. The song held the top spot for another week, however on 28 June it was pushed to number two by "California Gurls
" by Katy Perry
and Snoop Dogg
. "Young Blood" fell out of the singles chart in October 2010, having spent eighteen weeks in the chart.
In Australia, "Young Blood" peaked at number twenty-six on the ARIA Singles Chart
, while in Austria it appeared for ten weeks on the Ö3 Austria Top 40
, reaching number fifty-three. The song made number fifty-nine on the Dutch Mega Single 100, lasting five weeks.
In the United States, the song was nominated as iTunes Store
Single of the Week and was available for free of charge download during a week (15–21 March 2011).
for "Young Blood" was directed by Joel Kefali and Campbell Hooper of Special Problems.
covered the song for BBC Radio 1
in March 2011. With the relaunch of the TV-channel VIVA on 1 January 2011 "Young Blood" gained popularity in Germany and Austria as it is used in the channels' idents and trailers.Recently the song has been featured in the Strongbow
'Summer Blossom' advert in Australia. The song was also featured on a section of the entertainment news program, E! News
in the United States. In Uzbekistan the song was used in the advertisement of the mobile network operator UCell during May–June 2011.
"Young Blood" was featured in the Disney film, Prom
and in its trailer. The song was featured in the pilot of Covert Affairs
, in the pilot of The Almighty Johnsons
, and in the thirteenth episode
of the fourth season
of NBC
's Chuck
, during a sequence which was called the "best 10 minutes in the show's history" by series creator Josh Schwartz
. The song was further featured in the episode "Panic Roommate" of the fourth season of Gossip Girl
, in the season 3 premiere of TVNZ's Go Girls
, and in a promo for the British show Skins
. This song was also featured in the third episode of the eleventh season
of Degrassi
, and again in the twenty-ninth. "Young Blood" was then used in the third episode of MTV
's TV series Awkward
, and in the pilot of The Secret Circle
. The song was featured in Travis Rice's "The Art of Flight", a snowboarding film released 7 September 2011. A promo for the second season of the HGTV
show Property Brothers
features a cut of the song. The song is also featured on the FOX telecast of the 2011 Major League Baseball World Series.
German CD single & UK 7" vinyl 1
UK CD single
UK 7" vinyl 2
NZ and AU Digital download 2
UK and Ireland digital EP
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
by New Zealand band The Naked and Famous
The Naked and Famous
-Studio albums:-EPs:-Singles:-B-sides:-Music videos:-In popular culture:"All of This" was featured in the fourth episode of The Secret Circle....
, released onto radio in May 2010. It was used in several indent commercials for C4, and received the 2010 Silver Scroll
APRA Awards
The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually....
for Song of the Year.
The single was released as a digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
at the iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
on 7 June 2010. "Young Blood" debuted at number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...
, on 14 June 2010.
Chiddy Bang
Chiddy Bang
Chiddy Bang is an American alternative hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The group consists of Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege and Noah "Xaphoon Jones" Beresin. The duo was introduced through former band member Zachary Sewall in late 2008 during their freshman year at Drexel University, in...
did a remix of the song.
Composition
"Young Blood" is a synth-pop and electro song, and features a buzz-guitarGuitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
riff
RIFF
The Resource Interchange File Format is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks. It is primarily used to store multimedia such as sound and video, though it may also be used to store any arbitrary data....
. Kevin Harley of BBC Music
BBC Music
BBC Music is a team working in the department of Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC. Responsible for the BBC Music website - the portal site to music content across the BBC website....
compared the song to the work of MGMT
MGMT
MGMT is an American alternative rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio...
. According to Godfrey de Grut of NZ Musician, "Young Blood" is set in the key
Key (music)
In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a specific key, such as in the key of C major or in the key of F-sharp. Sometimes the terms "major" or "minor" are appended, as in the key of A minor or in the...
of F# Major, and follows the chord progression
Chord progression
A chord progression is a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal" of establishing a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord. In other words, the succession of root relationships...
of B–F–B–F–C–B–F–B–Dmin–C. The theme of "Young Blood" is that of "spirit of youth" and its loss, and contains a "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" hook
Hook (music)
A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener". The term generally applies to popular music, especially rock music, hip hop, dance music, and pop. In these genres, the hook is often...
.
Critical reception
Allmusic's Matt Collar noted "Young Blood" as one of the top tracks from Passive Me, Aggressive You and described it as "layered and shimmering". Tom Cardy from The Dominion PostThe Dominion Post (Wellington)
The Dominion Post is a metropolitan broadsheet newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand, owned by the Australian Fairfax group, owners of The Age, Melbourne, and The Sydney Morning Herald.- Foundation :...
called it "one of the catchiest indie electro tunes I've heard in years". The New Zealand Herald
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Scott Kara labelled "Young Blood" as "an inventive, rousing, and uplifting tune".
On 8 September 2010 "Young Blood" won the APRA Silver Scroll, a New Zealand peer-judged songwriting award. APRA's Anthony Healey stated, "Young Blood is outstanding; it's stroppy, it's youthful and energetic. It makes me want to be eighteen again". At the awards ceremony it was covered by reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
band Three Houses Down. The Naked and Famous said being awarded with the honour was "surreal and intense".
Chart performance
"Young Blood" debuted atop the New Zealand Singles Chart on 14 June 2010, becoming the first time a New Zealand artist debuted at number one in over three years; Matthew SaunoaMatthew Saunoa
Matthew Saunoa is a New Zealand pop singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the Third season of New Zealand Idol in 2006....
's "Hold Out
Hold Out (song)
"Hold Out" is a single released by New Zealand Idol Season three winner Matthew Saunoa as the winner's single. This single was written by The Feelers front man, James Reid.It reached number one on the New Zealand charts for one week in 2006....
" did so in November 2006. The song held the top spot for another week, however on 28 June it was pushed to number two by "California Gurls
California Gurls
"California Gurls" is an electropop song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry and is the lead single of her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The song features rapper Snoop Dogg, and was produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Benny Blanco. According to Perry, the song is an answer song to...
" by Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
and Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
. "Young Blood" fell out of the singles chart in October 2010, having spent eighteen weeks in the chart.
In Australia, "Young Blood" peaked at number twenty-six on the ARIA Singles Chart
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, while in Austria it appeared for ten weeks on the Ö3 Austria Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...
, reaching number fifty-three. The song made number fifty-nine on the Dutch Mega Single 100, lasting five weeks.
In the United States, the song was nominated as iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
Single of the Week and was available for free of charge download during a week (15–21 March 2011).
Music video
The accompanying music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for "Young Blood" was directed by Joel Kefali and Campbell Hooper of Special Problems.
Use in media
Jessie JJessie J
Jessica Ellen Cornish , better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English recording artist currently signed to Island Records. She began her career as a songwriter for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. Her debut single, "Do It Like a Dude", was released in November 2010 and peaked...
covered the song for BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
in March 2011. With the relaunch of the TV-channel VIVA on 1 January 2011 "Young Blood" gained popularity in Germany and Austria as it is used in the channels' idents and trailers.Recently the song has been featured in the Strongbow
Strongbow
The term Strongbow may refer to:*Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, a Norman earl also known by the nickname "Strongbow"*Strongbow Cider*Beleg Cúthalion , a character in JRR Tolkien's Quenta Silmarillion...
'Summer Blossom' advert in Australia. The song was also featured on a section of the entertainment news program, E! News
E! News
E! News, previously known as E! News Daily and E! News Live, is a nightly entertainment newsmagazine program airing on E!: Entertainment Television. The program debuted on September 1, 1991 and talks about Hollywood celebrities and gossip...
in the United States. In Uzbekistan the song was used in the advertisement of the mobile network operator UCell during May–June 2011.
"Young Blood" was featured in the Disney film, Prom
Prom (film)
Prom is a 2011 American teen film directed by Joe Nussbaum and produced by Ted Griffin and Justin Springer. It was released on April 29, 2011 by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was the first major production shot with Arriflex's Alexa HD cameras to be released in theatres.-Plot:Class president Nova ...
and in its trailer. The song was featured in the pilot of Covert Affairs
Covert Affairs
Covert Affairs is a USA Network television series starring Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham. The one-hour drama premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The show concluded its first season on September 14, 2010 and was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010. The second season began airing on...
, in the pilot of The Almighty Johnsons
The Almighty Johnsons
The Almighty Johnsons is a New Zealand fantasy comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and is produced by South Pacific Pictures. It began airing its first season of ten episodes in New Zealand on February 8, 2011....
, and in the thirteenth episode
Chuck Versus the Push Mix
"Chuck Versus the Push Mix" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of Chuck. It originally aired on January 31, 2011. Much like "Chuck Versus the Other Guy" in the third season, this episode was intended to be the fourth season finale before an additional eleven episodes were ordered...
of the fourth season
Chuck (season 4)
The fourth season of Chuck was announced on May 13, 2010. Having initially ordered 13 episodes, NBC ordered an additional 11 on October 19, 2010 for a total of 24 episodes....
of NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Chuck
Chuck (TV series)
Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...
, during a sequence which was called the "best 10 minutes in the show's history" by series creator Josh Schwartz
Josh Schwartz
-Film school at USC:In 1995, Schwartz realized his boyhood dream of attending film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California...
. The song was further featured in the episode "Panic Roommate" of the fourth season of Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...
, in the season 3 premiere of TVNZ's Go Girls
Go Girls
Go Girls is a New Zealand comedy/drama television series centering around four adult friends, Amy, Britta, Cody and Kevin, who live on the North Shore, Auckland...
, and in a promo for the British show Skins
Skins (TV series)
Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...
. This song was also featured in the third episode of the eleventh season
Degrassi (season 11)
The eleventh season of Degrassi premiered on 18 July 2011, in Canada and the United States, and consists of 45 episodes. Degrassi, previously known as Degrassi: The Next Generation, is a Canadian serial teen drama television series...
of Degrassi
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
, and again in the twenty-ninth. "Young Blood" was then used in the third episode of MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's TV series Awkward
Awkward. (TV series)
Awkward. is an American comedy-drama series which premiered on July 19, 2011 on MTV. The show revolves around the life of 16-year-old Jenna Hamilton , who is struggling with her identity, especially after an accident is misconstrued as a suicide attempt.The show is based on the high school, Palos...
, and in the pilot of The Secret Circle
The Secret Circle (TV series)
The Secret Circle is an American television series broadcast on The CW Television Network. It was developed by Andrew Miller, based on the book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. On May 17, 2011, The CW announced they had picked up the pilot as a series...
. The song was featured in Travis Rice's "The Art of Flight", a snowboarding film released 7 September 2011. A promo for the second season of the HGTV
HGTV
HGTV , is a cable-television network operating in the United States and Canada, broadcasting a variety of home and garden improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows...
show Property Brothers
Property Brothers
-External links:* ***...
features a cut of the song. The song is also featured on the FOX telecast of the 2011 Major League Baseball World Series.
Track listing
Digital download- "Young Blood" – 3:52
German CD single & UK 7" vinyl 1
- "Young Blood" – 3:53
- "Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! is the second full-length album released by The Mint Chicks and was originally released in New Zealand on the Flying Nun label. The album was produced by singer Kody, guitarist Ruban Nielson, and their father Chris Nielson...
" – 6:30
UK CD single
- "Young Blood" (Radio Edit) – 3:35
- "Young Blood" – 3:53
UK 7" vinyl 2
- "Young Blood" – 3:53
- "Sow" – 4:10
NZ and AU Digital download 2
- "Young Blood" (Radio Edit) – 3:34
- "Young Blood" (Chiddy Bang Remix) – 3:32
UK and Ireland digital EP
- "Young Blood" – 3:54
- "Sow" – 4:06
- "Young Blood" (David Andrew Sitek Remix) – 3:36
- "Young Blood" (Music video) – 3:57
Charts
| Chart (2010–11) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
26 |
| Austrian Singles Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann... |
53 |
| Dutch Single Top 100 | 18 |
| German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
30 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
1 |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
64 |
| US Alternative Songs | 9 |
| US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100... |
23 |
| US Rock Songs Rock Songs Rock Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the airplay of songs on alternative, mainstream rock and triple A radio stations. The first chart was published in the issue dated June 20, 2009. "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day was the first number-one song. The Rock Songs... |
21 |
Release history
| Region | Format | Date | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
7 July 2010 | The Naked and Famous |
| Australia | |||
| United Kingdom | CD single CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s... , 7" vinyl |
6 September 2010 | Neon Gold Neon Gold Records Neon Gold Records is a New York City/London-based boutique record company founded in 2008 by Derek Davies and Lizzy Plapinger . Neon Gold specializes in 7" records, regularly releasing limited runs between 250 to 500 copies... , Somewhat Damaged, Universal Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... |
| Austria | Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
14 November 2010 | Somewhat Damaged, Polydor |
| Denmark | |||
| Finland | |||
| Germany | |||
| Ireland | |||
| Italy | |||
| Japan | |||
| Netherlands | |||
| Norway | |||
| Sweden | |||
| Switzerland | |||
| United Kingdom | |||
| United States | |||
| Germany | CD single | 18 February 2011 | Somewhat Damaged, Universal, Polydor |
| United Kingdom | 7" vinyl | 4 March 2011 | Somewhat Damaged, Polydor, Universal, Fiction Fiction Records Fiction Records is a UK label founded by Chris Parry in 1978 that is best known for being the home of The Cure for over 20 years. Formerly independent, the label is now owned by Polydor, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-History:... |
| Ireland | Digital download EP | 6 March 2011 | Somewhat Damaged, Polydor |
| United Kingdom | |||
| Australia | Digital download | 4 April 2011 | Somewhat Damaged |
| New Zealand |