Life in the Fast Lane
"Life in the Fast Lane" is a song written by Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, and recorded by American rock band Eagles for the band's fifth studio album "Hotel California" (1976). It was the third single released from this album, and peaked at No. 11 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
Content.
The song tells the story of a couple who take their excessive lifestyle to the edge. On "In the Studio with Redbeard", Glenn Frey revealed that the title came to him one day when he was riding on the freeway with a drug dealer known as "The Count". Frey asked the dealer to slow down and the response was, "What do you mean? It's life in the fast lane!" In that same interview, Frey indicated that the song's central riff was played by Walsh while the band was warming up in rehearsals and Walsh was told to "keep that; it's a song". Don Henley recalled that the "song actually sprang from the opening guitar riff. One day, at rehearsal, Joe [Walsh] just busted out that crazy riff and I said 'What the hell is that? We've got to figure out to make a song out of that." Henley and Frey, the primary lyricists for the band, then wrote the lyrics for the song.
Critical reception.
"Cash Box" said that "with the influence of six-stringer Joe Walsh, the Eagles are harder and funkier than ever here." "Record World" said that it's "the album's most hard-edged rocker, dominated by a Walsh-signature guitar line." In 2016, the editors of "Rolling Stone" rated "Life in the Fast Lane" as the Eagles' eighth-greatest song. In 2017, "Billboard" ranked the song number four on their list of the 15 greatest Eagles songs, and in 2019, "Rolling Stone" ranked the song number eight on their list of the 40 greatest Eagles songs.
Personnel.
Partial credits from liner notes.
Covers.
In 2007, Swedish country and pop singer Jill Johnson recorded the song on her tenth studio album "Music Row".
The song was used as the soundtrack for the roller coaster "Eagles' Life in the Fast Lane", which opened at Hard Rock Park in May 2008.
On July 25, 2019 the rock band Hinder released their cover of the song as a non album single.
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Livin' in the Fast Lane
Livin' in the Fast Lane is the fourth studio album by the American hip hop group The Sugarhill Gang, released in 1984 on Sugar Hill Records.
Track listing.
Samples and notes

Fast Life (Kool G Rap song)
"Fast Life" is the second single from American hip hop artist Kool G Rap's 1995 album "4,5,6", featuring Nas. Released with the song "4,5,6" as a B-side, it later also featured on the compilation album "Greatest Hits" (2002).
Background.
Produced by Buckwild, "Fast Life" is a track that glorifies the criminal lifestyle with Kool G Rap and Nas Escobar portraying themselves as powerful and wealthy cocaine kingpins, boasting of their luxurious possessions and ruthless efficiency. The Mafioso theme of "Fast Life" is set early as the song opens with a sound bite from the 1983 film "Scarface" (Al Pacino's Tony Montana saying "The time has come, we gotta expand, the whole operation. Distribution, New York, to Chicago, L.A. We gotta set our own market, and enforce it.") and Nas later references such mob figures as Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and Frankie Yale. G Rap and Nas go line for line in the third and final verse of the song which "Complex" has described as "mind-blowing". The song's chorus goes as follows:
Livin the fast life, in fast cars
Everywhere we go, people know who we are
A team from out of Queens with the American Dream
So we're plottin' up a scheme to get the seven figure C.R.E.A.M.
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Music video.
The music video for "Fast Life" was directed by Brian "Black" Luvar and shows Kool G Rap and Nas "Escobar" living lavishly as they plot the construction of a mythical "Fast Life Hotel and Casino".
Samples.
"Fast Life" samples the following songs:
And was later sampled on:
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Fast Lane (Bilal song)
"Fast Lane" was the third single released in 2001 by American R&B singer-songwriter Bilal, from his debut studio album, "1st Born Second". The song peaked at No. 41 on the "Billboard" R&B singles chart. The music video for the remix featuring Dr. Dre and Jadakiss was directed by Sanaa Hamri.
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Living in Fast Forward
Song by Kenny Chesney
"Living In Fast Forward" is a song written by David Lee Murphy and Rivers Rutherford, and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Chesney that reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart. It was released in January 2006 as the second single from Chesney's album "The Road and the Radio". It is also featured as a selectable track on the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida.
Background and content.
Chesney says the song "defines how I've lived my life in the last several years. Because it has happened so quick. And I say it's happened so quick. I mean, I've been doing it for 12 years. But the last four to five years, it's been an amazing thing to live through and to see happen to you and to see your fan base grow to a point where it's unbelievable to stand in front of that microphone every night and see how passionate they are about your music. ... More importantly, how much fun they're having with it ... out in the parking lots before the show and during the show. It's everything I ever dreamed of and more."
Music video.
The music video was directed by Shaun Silva and premiered on CMT on December 1, 2005. This video was filmed on tour, but while the former shows the actual show, this one is more of the behind-the-scenes.
Chart positions.
"Living in Fast Forward" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart for the week of November 19, 2005.
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Life's Highway (song)
"Life's Highway" is a song written by Richard Leigh and Roger Murrah, and recorded by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was released in March 1986 as the second single and title track from the album "Life's Highway" and was his fourth number-one hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was also number 2 hit in Canada.
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Fast Lanes and Country Roads
"Fast Lanes and Country Roads" is a song written by Roger Murrah and Steve Dean, and recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. It was released in November 1985 as the second single from the album "Get to the Heart". The song reached number 4 on the "Billboard" hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Fastlane (song)
"Fastlane" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Esthero. It also features vocals from Jemeni and a rap by Canadian rapper Jelleestone, and is included on her 2005 album "Wikked Lil' Grrrls".
Background.
In April 2005, Reprise Records announced that they were finalizing several remixes of "Fastlane," which was released ahead of "Wikked Lil Grrrls." The label tapped DJs including Richard Morel, Cottonbelly, and Chris Brann to remix the song. Billboard stated that the song "intertwines drum 'n' bass and hip-hop."
Track listing.
Adapted from Discogs.
Chart performance.
"Fastlane" performed well in the US. It entered "Billboard"'s Dance Club Songs chart on July 30, 2005. It eventually entered the top 10, peaking at number 5 and spending a total of 15 weeks on the list.
"Fastlane" also performed moderately well on the Dance Singles Sales chart, where it also reached the top 10, though it stalled at number 9, spending only 4 weeks on the chart.
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Fast Life (Hadise song)
"Fast Life" is the second single, twelfth overall, by Turkish–Belgian singer Hadise from her third studio album "Fast Life".
Music video.
Hadise shot the video and teamed up with "Senol Korkmaz", who also shot the video for My Body. The video is about her fast life, you see her in a deluxe private jet, boat, car and in a helicopter.
The video begins with a shot of an aeroplane in the sky, and ending with hadise wrapping up her concert.

Fast (Luke Bryan song)
"Fast" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Luke Bryan. It was released in November 2016 as the sixth and final single from his 2015 album "Kill the Lights".
Content.
The song is about "contemplating the speed of life" and noting how events in life move "fast", especially as one ages.
Bryan told "Billboard" that the song came about during a writing session with Luke Laird and Rodney Clawson. They were having little success with one song idea until Laird provided the word "fast", and the writers came up with the song's first two lines. The verses take place while the male narrator is a teenager and aspiring for things that are "fast", while the chorus shifts to the narrator's adulthood, where he observes that he is frustrated by his inability to "slow down the passage of time" as stated in the lyric "60 seconds now feels more like 30", a lyric provided by Bryan.
The song's recording session includes drums from Greg Morrow overlaid by programmed drum sounds provided by Jody Stevens, along with electric piano from Mike Rojas and "glassy whole notes" from session guitarist J.T. Corenflos.
Critical reception.
"Taste of Country"'s review of the song was positive, saying that "Rodney Clawson and Luke Laird lend a hand with lyrics that are sure to compel men to hold their women tight as he’s singing it live in 2017." In April 2017, the song became Bryan's fifteenth consecutive number one hit.
Music video.
The official music video for "Fast" was directed by Michael Monaco and premiered March 2, 2017. The "nostalgic" video features Bryan playing guitar on an empty stage, interspersed with personal photos that chronicle his career and family life.
Chart performance.
The song reached the No. 1 position on Country Airplay, making Bryan the first artist to have six No. 1 Country Airplay singles from an album. The song has sold 172,000 copies in the United States as of May 2017.
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Life Is a Highway
1991 single by Tom Cochrane
"Life Is a Highway" is a song by Canadian musician Tom Cochrane from his second studio album, "Mad Mad World" (1991). The song became a number-one hit in Canada in late 1991. "Life Is a Highway" also peaked at number six on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in August 1992 and reached the top two in Australia and New Zealand the same year. The song was covered by Chris LeDoux for his 1998 album "One Road Man" and Rascal Flatts in 2006 for the "Cars" soundtrack.
Background and release.
Cochrane has stated that "Life Is a Highway" was originally conceived in the 1970s as "Love Is a Highway" while he was still a member of Red Rider, but was shelved at that time because he felt the unfinished song was unusable. Following a trip with his family to eastern Africa with the World Vision famine relief organization, Cochrane revisited the song on the advice of his friend John Webster, an instrumentalist on the "Mad Mad World" album. In a 2017 interview with The Canadian Press to mark the song's 25th anniversary, Cochrane said Webster encouraged him to revisit the demo recording, which at that point only had mumbled vocals and improvised lyrics, but not the song's well-known chorus. "(The song) became a pep talk to myself... saying you can't really control all of this stuff, you just do the best you can," he says. Cochrane says he was trying to make sense of the poverty he witnessed on his trip, which he found "shocking and traumatic".
Eventually, the original demo version was released on the 25th-anniversary reissue of "Mad Mad World" under the original title "Love Is a Highway". He later said the up-tempo spirit of the song came from looking for something positive to "hang the experience on." Most of the vocals on the track were recorded in Cochrane's small home studio. The song was Cochrane's only top-40 hit in the United States, reaching number six on the "Billboard" Hot 100. In Canada, the song stayed at number one for two weeks, and three other singles from the album charted within the top 10; "No Regrets" peaked at number three, "Sinking Like a Sunset" reached number two, and "Washed Away" climbed to number seven. In Australia and New Zealand, the single peaked at number two in both countries. Elsewhere, it became a top-40 hit in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
Music video.
The video for "Life Is a Highway" was directed by David Storey and produced by Albert Botha, who went on to be the line producer on two films for "Saturday Night Live": "Superstar" starring Molly Shannon and "The Ladies Man" starring Tim Meadows. The video was shot in Alberta's Badlands, near the town of Drumheller. Many of the shots are in familiar locations along the Dinosaur Trail, including Cochrane playing guitar amid the Hoodoos and the couple, Kait Shane and Brennan Elliott, running around the car while it rides the Bleriot Ferry across the Red Deer River. It also features an older man (gas station attendant), a couple (tall man, short wife), two women (Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins) from an Anabaptist religious order (Alberta has a population of Hutterites), and two First Nations men, one wearing a baseball cap with the words "Oka Standoff" printed on it, referring to the Oka Crisis (a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec). The car featured in the music video is a 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport.
Track listings.
7-inch, cassette, and mini-CD single
UK CD single
European maxi-CD single
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Chris LeDoux version.
In 1998, Chris LeDoux covered "Life Is a Highway" for his album "One Road Man". Changes include the intro, timing of vocal entrances on the chorus, and location names between the first and second chorus. LeDoux's version was released as a single the following year and peaked at number 64 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart during the week of June 12, 1999, and remained at the spot for nine weeks.
Music video.
The music video for the song, directed by Michael Salomon, takes place on multiple roads and highways as well as a blue and red static themed room. When on roads and highways, there is a chance for LeDoux to appear on a television that is sitting on a sidewalk or grass, however, while the background behind LeDoux (that appears on the TV) is the same background as everything behind the TV itself, LeDoux does not appear to be standing behind the TV. In most locations, LeDoux is walking down a road as at the start of the music video. The video ends with LeDoux singing the chorus while appearing on a flap-down TV inside of someone's car, then transitioning to LeDoux being once again in the static room and then walking out of it. After LeDoux leaves the room, the screen slowly fades to black and the video ends.
Rascal Flatts version.
In 2005, American country band Rascal Flatts recorded a cover of the song for the Pixar animated film "Cars", which was released on June 9, 2006. The song sold a large quantity of digital downloads, leading to a number seven peak on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (one position lower than Cochrane's original version). In addition, the cover was placed as a bonus track on later versions of the album "Me and My Gang", and also was included on "Greatest Hits Volume 1" (2008) and "" (2020). This version also won the "Favorite Song from a Movie" & "Favorite Remake" award at the 33rd People's Choice Awards.
The instrumental of the Rascal Flatts' cover version was prominently featured in the "", which aired February 11, 2007. The song is included on the soundtrack for "Cars Mater-National Championship" and "Lego Rock Band". It topped the two million mark in paid downloads as of the chart dated March 28, 2009. As of March 2013, the song has sold over three million copies in the US. On July 14, 2015, Scott Walker, Republican Governor of Wisconsin, launched his presidential campaign as Republican Party nominee in Waukesha, Wisconsin using the song. On December 8, 2020, Harmonix announced that the cover would be featured on the video game, FUSER, as a DLC on December 10, 2020. The song is also featured in video games such as "Cars: Mater-National" and "Rocket League".
Music video.
The music video portrays the three band members pulling into a drive-in theater driving three vintage vehicles. The cars allude to three characters from "Cars": Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson and Mater. As the projector rolls, scenes from the film are shown as the band plays through the number. It was directed by Shaun Silva.
Charts.
The Rascal Flatts version subsequently became a hit on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number seven. Even though it was not officially released to country radio, many country stations played the song as an album cut, overlapping with their then-current country single "My Wish". The unsolicited country airplay brought "Life Is a Highway" to number 18 on the US Hot Country Songs chart. The song has sold 3.4 million copies in the US as of June 2016.
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Live Fast
"Live Fast" (stylized as Live Fast (PUBGM)) is a song recorded by British-Norwegian DJ Alan Walker and American rapper A$AP Rocky. It contains uncredited vocals provided by American singer and songwriter Kameron Alexander. It was released as a single on 25 July 2019 through MER and Sony Music for the promotion of the mobile application version of video game "PUBG".
Background.
The vocals of the song were recorded before the incarceration of ASAP Rocky, due to an altercation in the streets of Stockholm, in Sweden, on 30 July. After the release, Alan Walker posted a message on Instagram to thank all his staff and appeal to justice for the rapper : "The challenges and controversy surrounding Rocky’s arrest and upcoming trial in Sweden has affected all of us through the last weeks. [...] But I would like to speak out for fair treatment and a quick resolution for the sake of everyone involved." The track marks the second collaboration in electronic domain for ASAP Rocky after "Wild for the Night" by Skrillex in 2013. The rapper refers to it in the lyrics of the song when he says "2013 I went wild for night, in 2019 I’m getting out ’fore I die". The song serves as the official anthem for "PUBG Mobile", a battle royale game on Android and iOS, which has 50 millions active daily users. Alan Walker has already made some songs for the video game community, like his first single for PUBG, "On My Way", which was released on 21 March 2019, celebrating the first anniversary of the game. He worked too on an official remix of League of Legends theme. The official live was performed on 26 July at PUBG Mobile Club Open Spring Split Global Finals in Berlin, one day after the release. In the same way, Alan Walker said on Twitter : "I had the pleasure of performing my brand new single #LiveFast live for the first time at the opening of the @PUBGMOBILE #PMCO Spring Split Global Finals in Berlin! If you missed the livestream I’ve uploaded my full performance here…" During the week of the release, Alan Walker invited his fans to log in to PUBG Mobile to win the chance to hear the song, in completing the DJ's challenges to unlock it.
Critical reception.
Kat Bein from "Billboard" described the song as "a downtempo mantra that begs for hope in the emotional trenches". Aron A. from "HotNewHipHop" noted that Alan Walker "drops off a smooth, electronic-infused beat while Rocky swings in with two new verses". Writing for "Your EDM", Matthew Meadow remarked that the meaning of the lyrics, written before ASAP Rocky incarceration, "rings truer now than ever". Markos Papadatos from "Digital Journal" deemed the song "so different than anything Alan Walker has done previously". He noted that it "fuses electronic music well with rap and hip-hop", while "A$AP Rocky showcases his rich, rap vocals, coupled by Walker's stunning production". James Todoroski of "We Rave You" said, "A$AP, who recorded his verses on this song before his incarceration, has such weighty lyrics that they fit perfectly with the song's dark, brooding atmosphere." Tor Martin Bøe of "Verdens Gang" said, "There's very little in the way of arrangements or melodies that evoke the sentimental electronica he's known for. This is a separate category for gamers. It's a slightly stern hip-hop anthem with a strong chorus and a suitably upbeat atmosphere, perfect for a login screen." Tiffany of "EDM Tunes" said, "The lyrics have a chilling weight to them, which resonates even more amid Rocky's recent troubles." The DJ wished to note that the message of the song is to live fast and to avoid monotony. He remarked that the lyrics fit perfectly with the current context of the rapper. In an interview he said : "The lyrics are totally his, I sent him the production and he sent the lyrics and I liked it; it's something that came up in a few days and was amazing and I'm very proud of it."
Music video.
The official music video of the song was released at the same day through Alan Walker's YouTube channel. There are real actors portraying PUBG Mobile game themes, which are for most of them soldiers, walking in a dark atmosphere, in transit or aiming weapons in desolate locales.
Credits and personnel.
Credits adapted from Tidal.
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Life on the Fast Lane
"Life on the Fast Lane", known as "Jacques to Be Wild" in the United Kingdom, is the ninth episode of the American animated television series "The Simpsons". It originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 18, 1990. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by David Silverman. Albert Brooks (in his second of ten appearances) guest starred as Jacques, a French bowling instructor, with him being credited as "A. Brooks".
The episode deals with how Homer's thoughtlessness precipitates Marge's infatuation with her bowling instructor Jacques, leading to a marriage crisis between her and Homer. In the original plan for the episode, Brooks (who improvised much of his dialogue) was to voice a Swedish tennis coach called Björn, with the episode to be titled "Björn to Be Wild".
The episode features a parody of the film "An Officer and a Gentleman" and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 1990.
The character of Jacques would return in the season 34 episode "Pin Gal", with Brooks reprising his role.
Plot.
After forgetting Marge's 34th birthday, Homer rushes to the Springfield Mall, where he buys a bowling ball with his inscribed name for himself and disguises it as her gift. At her birthday dinner, Marge is pleased with Bart and Lisa's gifts for her—a bottle of French perfume and a macaroni-and-glue portrait of her as the "Mona Lisa" respectively. As Homer presents the bowling ball to her, it breaks through the bottom of its box and squashes her birthday cake. Offended, Marge calls Homer out for giving her a gift for himself, pointing out that she has never gone bowling in her life and that the ball is inscribed with his name.
Determined to learn how to bowl to spite Homer, Marge visits Barney's Bowl-A-Rama. While there, she meets a French bowling instructor named Jacques, who develops an infatuation with her and offers to give her lessons. After several lessons, Jacques and Marge agree to meet for brunch, which goes well until they see Helen Lovejoy, the gossipy preacher's wife, who seems delighted to find Marge with a man other than her husband. After deflecting Helen's prying by feigning a discussion of bowling theory, Jacques asks Marge to meet him the next day at his apartment, causing her to faint. While unconscious, she sees herself dancing with Jacques in his luxurious, bowling-themed apartment. Regaining consciousness after her romantic fantasy, Marge accepts Jacques's invitation.
Meanwhile, Homer finds the personalized bowling glove Jacques gave Marge and realizes he may lose her to another man. Soon Bart realizes Lisa's suspicion that their parents are drifting apart is true. Bart advises Homer to keep quiet about Marge's suspected affair to avoid making things worse.
Marge leaves for her rendezvous with Jacques but remembers her lifetime commitment to Homer during the drive. She comes to a fork in the road, between the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and Jacques's apartment. After agonizing over her decision, Marge surprises a distraught Homer at the plant and kisses him warmly. An ecstatic Homer abandons his work post for ten minutes and takes Marge to the backseat of his car.
Production.
The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by David Silverman. When the episode was originally planned, it called for Albert Brooks to voice "Björn", a Swedish tennis instructor, but Brooks thought it would be funnier to make the character French and so the change was made. The title was originally to be "Bjorn to Be Wild", thus accounting for the episode's alternate title "Jacques to Be Wild". Brooks improvised almost all his dialogue, producing over three hours of material. Marge's laugh during her bowling lesson was an ad-libbed, natural laugh by Julie Kavner, who was laughing at something Albert Brooks had just said. The line "four onion rings!" is only one of many lines Brooks ad-libbed and blew by losing Jacques's French accent. An extended audio clip of Albert Brooks's unused dialogue was made available on Disc Three of "The Simpsons The Complete First Season" DVD.
The sequence in which the family throws the pizza box away was specifically designed by John Swartzwelder to look surreal, with the family panning into each other. The moon was designed to resemble a bowling ball in the scene in which Jacques drops Marge home. The restaurant that Jacques and Marge visit is called "Shorty's"; it was originally intended that a chef's hat would be shown moving around in the background, implying that the owner was short, but the concept was dropped as it seemed to be too much of a silly idea. The episode's conclusion is a reference to "An Officer and a Gentleman", which David Silverman had to watch first, so that he knew how to set the scene out. Homer's line, "too exciting", when he sees the lingerie store was written by James L. Brooks. During Marge's phone conversation with Patty and Selma, Maggie can be seen sucking her pacifier repeatedly, a concept dropped in later episodes as it was deemed too much of a distraction from the dialogue.
First appearances.
The episode features the first appearance of the bowling alley Barney's Bowlarama. The original backstory for Barney's Bowlarama was that it was owned by Barney Gumble. Over time it changed to Barney just being an employee, as the writers could not imagine Barney owning anything. It was later revealed that Barney's uncle was the owner. The exterior of the Bowlarama was designed by No Doubt member Eric Stefani. The episode also marks the first appearances of Lenny Leonard and Helen Lovejoy.
Cultural references.
Marge's dream resembles a dance number from "The Gay Divorcee". The end scene, in which Marge walks into the power plant, and Homer carries her away, is a reference to the film "An Officer and a Gentleman", and features an instrumental of the song "Up Where We Belong". The Eagles song "Life in the Fast Lane" inspired the episode title.
Reception.
In its original broadcast, "Life on the Fast Lane" finished 11th in ratings for the week of March 12–19, 1990, with a Nielsen rating of 17.5, equivalent to approximately 16.1 million viewing households. It was the highest-rated show on Fox that week, beating "Married... with Children".
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide", called it "a very good, very assured episode that has seen some viewers (particularly female ones) tearing out their hair at the conclusion". Nathan Rabin of "The A.V. Club" praised the episode, stating: "There would be many funnier and faster episodes of "The Simpsons" but few can match "Life on the Fast Lane" for emotional depth and characterization." IGN named Albert Brooks' guest performance in this episode, along with his four other appearances, the best guest appearance in the show's history.
In a DVD review of the first season David B. Grelck rated this episode a 4(of 5), placing it along with "Homer's Night Out" as his favorites of the season. Colin Jacobson at DVD Movie Guide said in a review that it was "another good but not great episode" and added that "Albert Brooks seriously enlivened 'Life [on the Fast Lane]'... Jacques becomes funny not so much due to the lines themselves; it's Brooks' readings that make them work." Another DVD review from The Digital Bits called it "one of the first season's best loved episodes".
This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) in 1990, defeating fellow "Simpsons" episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", and becoming the first "The Simpsons" episode to win the award.
In a 2000 "Entertainment Weekly" article, Matt Groening ranked this episode as his second favorite episode of all time, behind "Bart the Daredevil". "Entertainment Weekly" placed the episode twenty-first on their top 25 "The Simpsons" episode list, calling it "a showcase for the series' bedrock of character and heart." The "Orlando Sentinel"'s Gregory Hardy named it the fifteenth best episode of the show with a sports theme. The episode's reference to "An Officer and a Gentleman" was named the 23rd greatest film reference in the history of the show by "Total Film"'s Nathan Ditum. "Simpsons" co-developer Sam Simon named it his favorite episode of all time in 2009.
Legacy.
The March 15, 2004 edition of the Dear Abby column was pulled, as it had emerged that one of the letters was a fake. A newspaper editor noticed that the problem cited in the letter was identical to the plot of "Life on the Fast Lane". Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for the Universal Press Syndicate, said "it did sound too similar not to be a hoax".
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Slow Life
Slow Life is an EP by the Welsh alternative rock band Super Furry Animals, released in 2004. The EP was made available as a free download and also saw a limited CD release, bundled with remix album "Phantom Phorce". Lead track "Slow Life" appeared on the 2003 album "Phantom Power" and was originally composed as a purely electronic song by keyboardist Cian Ciaran several years earlier. The band were keen to finish the track and Ciaran encouraged them to jam over his original version—this jam was then edited and made into the finished song. The track "Motherfokker" is a collaboration between the Super Furry Animals and rap group Goldie Lookin Chain.
The EP received mixed reviews although "Slow Life" itself was singled out for praise by many critics. A music video was made to accompany the track directed by Dylan Jones and Paps O'Maoileoain. The Super Furries appeared in the 2004 film "9 Songs" playing "Slow Life" live during a scene in which one of the characters attends a gig by the band at the Brixton Academy.
Recording and themes.
"Slow Life" was written in two stages. According to bassist Guto Pryce the "electronic part" was composed by keyboard player Cian Ciaran "quite a few years" before its eventual release. The band had tried to fit this early, purely electronic, version on previous albums but had "never got 'round to it". By the time the group came to record "Phantom Power" they were anxious to release the song, however Ciaran was reluctant to leave it in its original form and encouraged the rest of the band to jam over his original track. According to singer Gruff Rhys the instrumentation was recorded "pretty much live" after which lyrics were written and the band's 10-minute jam session was "chopped ... up and made into a composed song" with the electronic section intact. Strings were later added by Sean O'Hagan. Rhys has stated that renting their own studio in Cardiff has given the band the ability to work on tracks such as "Slow Life" over a period of years—the group visit the studio almost every day and play: "the best parts on any of our records, I think, come out of a couple of us being in our little room in Cardiff at three in the morning, just wigging out and being ecstatic in the music."
According to guitarist Huw Bunford the track had the working title "Miami Vice" as it featured a drum roll similar to one used in the theme tune to the 80's television show of the same name. The band decided not to keep this name as they were keen to avoid links with a particular place—Bunford gave the example of the song's use on a travel documentary about Miami as something the group did not want to see. Some promotional copies of "Phantom Power" featured "Slow Life" as the first track although it eventually appeared as the last track on the officially released version of the album. Gruff Rhys has stated that the song had to go at either the beginning or the end of the record as it is the "most sonically impressive" track on the album. Rhys has described his lyrics as "regurgitating what we hear on the news, recycled, vomiting them all back". "The Guardian" has interpreted the song as a "cutting critique of middle-east colonialism".
The track "Motherfokker" is a collaboration between the Super Furry Animals and Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin Chain with chorus vocals provided by Cian Ciaran. The two toured together in 2004 and Gruff Rhys has praised the group, stating that "their range of references are insane. They're extremely bright. They're crazy." Rhys has explained that the song is about "an incredibly large aircraft from outer space. [Goldie Lookin Chain] are the aliens and it's about the people of Earth coming together as one". The two groups have performed the track together several times at Super Furry Animals' concerts including the 2004 Reading Festival and a date at the Brixton Academy on 22 September 2005.
Release and reception.
The E.P. was released as a free download from the Placid Casual website on 12 April 2004. Along with the three tracks that make up the E.P. the promotional music video for "Slow Life" was also available to download in QuickTime and Windows Media Video formats. Limited quantities of the E.P. were also issued on CD, bundled with initial copies of remix album "Phantom Phorce" on its release on 19 April 2004. The CD version was housed in a floppy disk style picture sleeve.
Critical reaction was generally mixed with Cokemachineglow calling the EP "forgettable", stating that, while "Slow Life" "slides perfectly off "Phantom Power"", the other two tracks are weak: "Motherfokker" is a vulgar "Pez candy up the nose" with "shoddy guest rapping" from Goldie Lookin Chain and "Lost Control" is barely more than a remix of "Phantom Power" track "Out of Control". PopMatters also dismissed "Motherfokker" and "Lost Control" as inessential b-sides and, during their review of 2007's "Hey Venus!", the "NME" suggested that "Motherfokker" is "best-suppressed".
"Slow Life" itself received generally positive reviews; Pitchfork Media called it a "stunning closer" to "Phantom Power", while PopMatters described the song as "the kind of schizophrenic fun we've come to expect from the band but ... less showy and eager to please, as they control themselves enough to make the jarring, contradicting styles much easier to digest". Stylus Magazine stated that the "great" track "achieves symbiosis between techno and guitar-pop better than anything else they've done before". The BBC agreed calling "Slow Life" the band's "most successful mindrattling techno attempt so far". The song was placed at number 46 in the 2003 Festive Fifty on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show.
Use of "Slow Life" in "9 Songs".
"Slow Life" is central to the 2004 Michael Winterbottom film "9 Songs", being one of the nine songs mentioned in the title. The movie charts the relationship of main characters Matt and Lisa from their initial meeting to the pair splitting up. Footage of the two attending a series of nine concerts at Brixton Academy, where they initially meet, is interspersed with scenes of the actors performing unsimulated sex. Matt and Lisa are already growing apart when Matt attends a Super Furry Animals concert at the Academy alone. Giving Lisa's ticket away as she "didn't want to go" the character comments: "5000 people in a room and you can still feel alone". The scene appears roughly forty minutes into the film and shows the band performing "Slow Life" live in its entirety as Matt looks on.
Music video.
A promotional music video was made to accompany "Slow Life" directed by Dylan Jones and Paps O'Maoileoain. The video features psychedelic, fluorescent images of the band's faces in close up as they play and sing along with the track. Strobing and fractal images appear at several points throughout the video. As with the other tracks taken from "Phantom Power", "Golden Retriever" and "Hello Sunshine", the video for "Slow Life" does not appear on the "Phantom Power" DVD release but is included on the DVD version of greatest hits album "".
Track listing.
All songs by Super Furry Animals unless otherwise stated.
Credits.
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Live the Life (Fundisha song)
"Live the Life" is a 2002 song and debut single by Fundisha Johnson and features Jermaine Dupri. Co-written by Johnson and Dupri, "Billboard" called the song an "inspirational ditty about the ups and downs of life" with "a feel-good sound that is awfully catchy."
The song was first featured on the soundtrack to the film "Hardball." It is also featured on her album "Lessons", which was released by So So Def/Columbia Records.
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Fast Lane (Bad Meets Evil song)
"Fast Lane" is the lead single by hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, a group composed of Royce da 5'9" and Eminem, from their first EP "". The single was produced by Eminem, Supa Dups, and Jason "JG" Gilbert, and released on May 3, 2011 by Shady Records. It features uncredited vocals by Sly Jordan on the chorus. A music video was created by director James Larese of music video direction group Syndrome. The music video features animated visuals and kinetic typography, with cameo appearances by Mr. Porter and Slaughterhouse. Fans and critics considered it a return to Eminem's Slim Shady alter ego. Texas rapper Chamillionaire released a remix.
The song was well received compared to the rest of the EP and was considered a highlight of "Hell: The Sequel". Critics favored the song for its change from Eminem's theme in "Recovery". "Rolling Stone" called it "1999-style". Bad Meets Evil performed this song at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Lollapalooza music festival.
Background.
Bad Meets Evil first formed in 1998. The group's first single under the name was "Nuttin' to Do" / "Scary Movies". However, the group went their own separate ways in late 2002. Royce da 5'9" and Eminem have since collaborated on other songs, but not under the name "Bad Meets Evil". In late 2010, Eminem and Royce da 5'9" began collaborating as Bad Meets Evil after 11 years of inactivity within the group. "Fast Lane" was released as the lead single for their then-upcoming extended play, titled "Hell: The Sequel". The song was released May 3, 2011 by Shady Records.
"Fast Lane" was recorded by Mike Strange at Effigy Studios, in Ferndale, Michigan. Recorded a few months before its release, the song was written by Eminem, and Sly "Pyper" Jordan (from "Seduction" and "Kush"), who also sings the chorus to the song. According to an interview with MTV, Eminem requested that Sly perform the chorus, after hearing Dr. Dre's "Kush". Supa Dups and Jason "JG" Gilbert produced the song and Eminem and Mike Strange mixed the song. JG and Supa Dups also sample their own vocals. According to Supa Dups, he was asked to make a beat with JG, without knowing it was for Bad Meets Evil. He said that "[They] didn't even have Eminem in mind [when they made the beat]." According to this interview with "Mixtape Daily", Supa Dups had little knowledge about the project, but simply submitted the beat to Eminem:
I didn't even know the project was coming out. I didn't know what the beat was for; I just knew Eminem asked me for the files and I sent it to them. ... When I saw Eminem in L.A. for Grammy weekend, Eminem said, 'Yeah, he ripped the track.' Later on that day, I met Royce, and Royce was like, 'Yeah, download that track man. We ripped that track. That's the first single.' I was like, 'What?' But until then, I still wasn't sure.
Months after recording the song, on April 28, 2011, when it leaked onto the Internet, Supa Dups was impressed by the finished version, "I was like, 'Damn, this record is crazy.'" He was impressed by the song, lyrically, and was proud to have participated in the project.
"Fast Lane" is a midwestern hip hop song. It has two main parts to the song. The first half of the four-minute song begins with a verse performed by Royce da 5'9", followed by Eminem's verse. After the chorus, the second half has two verses by each rapper, followed by the chorus for the final time.
Critical reception.
"Fast Lane" was received favorably by critics. Upon the release on the EP, "", "Billboard" editor Jason Lipshutz published a track-by-track review. According to Lipshutz, "Fast Lane" is "G-funk on steroids, with sing-song refrain breaking up crushing mic-trading bout between Royce da 5'9" and Eminem." He also referred to "Fast Lane" as one of the highlight songs of the album. "Rolling Stone" gave a positive review. According to Jon Dolan of "Rolling Stone", "Eminem kicks 'Fast Lane' 1999-style, reconnecting with the hungry young lunatic who sounded like he only had a stanza to blow us away or it was back to the auto plant." Dolan also commented on the infamous lyric "I hope that I don't sound too heinous when I say this, Nicki Minaj, but I wanna stick my penis in your anus," saying that Eminem has been much more heinous before. According to Kyle Anderson of "Entertainment Weekly", Royce da 5'9" performs extremely well on the "hard-hitting" song, even calling him a "lyrical beast". Although music website "Consequence of Sound" gave a rather mixed review on the EP as a whole, editor Winston Robbins favored "Fast Lane" and said that it is "hands down one of the best hip-hop tracks of 2011" and that the rapping is "second to none".
Music video.
The music video was directed by James Larese of collective group Syndrome, a group that also directed videos for two other Eminem songs: "3 a.m." and "Crack a Bottle". A 40-second video teaser was released on May 27, 2011, on Eminem's YouTube channel, which shows the part of the video during the first time the chorus plays, confirming Sly Jordan's appearance in the video and the use of cartoon animation. In an interview with Bootleg Kev, Royce da 5'9" revealed that a lot of the ideas for the animated visuals featured in the music video were Eminem's ideas. The video was first expected to release on May 31, 2011. However, the date was delayed. The video premiered on June 8, 2011, at noon EST on VEVO and Bad Meets Evil's official website.
The music video features animated visuals of the lyrics and kinetic typography of some lyrics, with the duo rapping in a warehouse-like setting. Royce da 5'9" and Eminem both interact with the animations and occasionally hold and use them as actual objects. When transitioning between rappers, Eminem and Royce push each other out when it is their turn. Notable scenes include a cartoon blonde girl who gets 'drowned' by Eminem, inside a fish-bowl and then decapitated. Another scene includes Bad Meets Evil riding a green animated car, crashing into several obstacles, during the chorus. Sly Jordan appears in the video, singing the chorus.
The music video features cameo appearances from American rapper and producer Mr. Porter of D12, who lip syncs part of the chorus, and members of hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse near the end of the video. Near the end of the video, Royce and Eminem try to stand in front of each other for attention. The video ends with them being pushed out of the way by the Bad Meets Evil logo. The video became notable for its humorous content. There's an "Director's Cut" version to the music video in where instead of holding words when talking about Nicki Minaj Eminem can be seen as holding a sausage and a hot dog bun.
Live performances.
Eminem and Royce da 5'9" made their debut live performance as Bad Meets Evil for "Fast Lane" and "Lighters" at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. According to James Montgomery of MTV, "what stood out the most about Em[inem]'s performance was the sheer tenacity with which he attacked it." Other than Royce, he was also accompanied by his hypeman Mr. Porter of D12 and performed wearing a black Bad Meets Evil T-shirt, under a black hoodie. The duo's performance was complemented by the "Fast Lane" music video playing in the background. "Fast Lane" was performed with Porter on the second day of Lollapalooza 2011, which took place in Chicago. The song was referred to by Gil Kaufman of MTV as a "low-rider anthem". Prior to the performance, Eminem changed into the Bad Meets Evil T-shirt.
Remixes and appearances in other media.
Texas rapper Chamillionaire recorded a remix of the song which was released on May 8, 2011. The song was not officially released to iTunes, however. The remix features two added verses by Chamillionaire between Eminem's and Royce Da 5'9"'s verses; one before the first time the chorus plays, and another verse after the chorus. He also replaces Sly Jordan with a modified chorus with different lyrics. The remix is five and a half minutes long.
The track was featured on both the soundtracks of the 2011 film "Real Steel", and on 2K Sports' NBA 2K12. The track was also used for HBO's "Entourage" season 8 trailer and the Extended First Look trailer for "Fast & Furious 6". The song was featured in the "Final Fantasy XV" trailer "Ride Together'
Credits and personnel.
Credits adapted from "Hell: The Sequel" album digital booklet.
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Fast Car
1988 single by Tracy Chapman
"Fast Car" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released on April 6, 1988, by Elektra Records, as the lead single from her 1988 self-titled debut studio album. Chapman's appearance at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert in June 1988 helped the song become a top-ten hit in the United States, reaching number six on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and led the album to top the "Billboard" 200. The single also reached number five on the UK Singles Chart.
"Fast Car" received three nominations at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the last of which it won. It also received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Female Video.
Since the release of Chapman's original, the song has had success in two electronic dance versions by Swedish DJ Tobtok and British DJ Jonas Blue, as well as a country cover by American singer Luke Combs. Combs's version was a number-one single on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts in 2023, and won Chapman the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year, making her the first black person to win the award.
Music and lyrics.
According to "Metro Weekly" critic Chris Gerard, "Fast Car" tells the story of a working woman trying to escape the cycle of poverty, set to "glowing folk rock". In a 2010 interview, Chapman explained that the song wasn't "directly autobiographical," but rather "very generally represents the world that I saw it when I was growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, coming from a working class background."I’ve raised by single mom, I was just watching people, being in a community of people who were struggling. So everyone was really just 1. Working hard 2. hoping that things would get better.
In part everything that a person writes is autobiographical but the songs are directly so and most of them were not and Fast Car wasn’t one that was directly autobiographical. I never had a Fast Car, it’s just a story about a couple, how they are trying to make a life together and they face challenges.The song's arrangement was described by "Orlando Sentinel" writer Thom Duffy as "subtle folk-rock", while "Billboard" magazine's Gary Trust deemed the record a "folk/pop" song. Critic Dave Marsh called it an "optimistic folk-rock narrative" about characters living in a homeless shelter.
Release and promotion.
Elektra Records released "Fast Car" as a single on April 6, 1988, one day after the album "Tracy Chapman". That June, Chapman appeared at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, where she was scheduled to sing three songs. Just before surprise guest Stevie Wonder walked onstage, he learned that his keyboard's floppy disk had gone missing. He left in a panic, forcing the event organizers to usher Chapman back to the stage with nothing but a microphone and her guitar. As the organizers readied the stage for the following act, Chapman performed "Fast Car" and "Across the Lines". This performance brought widespread attention to her music, with sales for "Tracy Chapman" increasing enough for it to top the "Billboard" 200 chart on August 27, 1988. "Fast Car" itself would reach number six on the "Billboard" Hot 100 the same week.
A remastered recording was issued by Elektra in 2015.
It reached 1 billion streams on Spotify on 17 January 2025.
Critical reception.
John Tague from "NME" wrote, "'Fast Car' is a typically well expressed lament, not for those who have suffered extraordinary circumstances, but for those who escape one form of dead end existence only to fall into another, relative material success without the consolation of dreams for the future. It's a keenly felt depiction of the impossibility of escape, rendered tastefully and gracefully, charming in its simplicity." "Rolling Stone" ranked "Fast Car" number 167 on their 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was Chapman's only song on the list, and the highest-ranking song performed and written solely by a female artist. When "Rolling Stone" updated the list in 2021, "Fast Car" was promoted to number 71. "Pitchfork" named it the 86th-best song of the 1980s in 2015.
Renewed British success.
In April 2011, "Fast Car" entered the UK top ten for the second time at number four after Michael Collings performed it on "Britain's Got Talent", one position higher than its initial chart success in 1988. The single was certified quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2024, based on downloads and streaming. By 2016, it had sold 661,500 copies in the United Kingdom.
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Tobtok version.
In 2015, a tropical house version was released by Swedish record producer Tobtok, featuring vocals from British singer River. Tobtok's version was published on SoundCloud on October 30, 2015, and released commercially on November 27, 2015, through Good Soldier Records, and subsequently licensed to Neon Records in Australia and Disco:wax in the United States. Tobtok also released an accompanying music video. Although the Jonas Blue version released shortly after was far more successful, Tobtok's version also charted in a number of charts, notably Australia, where it received significant airplay (some stations like 2Day FM played it over the Jonas Blue version) and reached number 19 on the ARIA Singles Chart in January 2016, while Jonas Blue's version was at number two. The Tobtok version also charted in the Norwegian VG-lista, Irish IRMA, and Danish Tracklisten charts.
Track listing
Jonas Blue version.
In 2015, a tropical house cover of "Fast Car" was released by British record producer Jonas Blue. It is Blue's debut single and features the vocals from British singer Dakota; it is also her debut single. It is the lead single of Blue's debut album "Blue" (2018). The Club Mix was included on Blue's compilation, "".
Background and inspiration.
In an interview with iHeartRadio, Blue stated Chapman's original 1988 hit is a favorite of his mother, who would often play it in the car. "It was a good song in London [during] that time when I was growing up, so it was always on the radio," he went on to say. "And it just kind of stuck with me. It was that song on the long journeys, and I loved it."
Regarding Dakota, who provides vocals on the song, Blue said, "... she [said], 'Oh, I've never done dance music before or anything like that so, I'm not kind of sure.' And I was like, 'Listen, you'd be great.' And she came the next day to record it, and what you hear on the radio is her coming in the next day after her show to record it." Blue also admitted that he wanted to create a Swedish-esque sound on the record: "I think with things like the synth lead lines in it, giving it that second hook, I was kind of going for a very kind of Swedish-y kind of sound. That's kind of the influence behind that kind of lead synth line, and that was something which I don't think people have picked up on yet, but they just like the song because of what it is."
Composition.
Jonas Blue's version of "Fast Car" is performed in the key of A major with a tempo of 114 beats per minute in common time, with Dakota's vocals ranging from E3 to F♯4.
Chart performance.
The Jonas Blue version peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, behind Zayn Malik's "Pillowtalk". Its UK peak meant it charted higher than Chapman's original, which peaked at number five on the chart in May 1988 and a position higher upon a re-release in April 2011.
Outside the United Kingdom, the Jonas Blue version reached number one in Australia and Hungary, while peaking within the top ten in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, and Sweden. In the United States, the Jonas Blue version went to number one on Dance Club Songs.
It reached one billion streams on Spotify in late February 2023.
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Luke Combs version.
American country music artist Luke Combs released a version of the song on his 2023 album "Gettin' Old". It was sent to American Top 40 and adult contemporary radio as the second single from the album, marking the first time that Combs has had a song sent to contemporary hit radio, as well as the first single that he did not have a hand in writing.
Combs' version uses most of Chapman's original lyrics, including the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl". Combs' manager Chris Kappy told "Billboard" magazine, "Luke is a songwriter too and Tracy is one of his favorite artists. So his goal was to never change the song. His goal was to honor the perfection that it is, and changing the gender never crossed his mind."
In a July 2023 interview with "Billboard", Chapman spoke favorably of Combs and his rendition of "Fast Car", stating: "I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I'm honored to be there. I'm happy for Luke and his success and grateful that new fans have found and embraced 'Fast Car.'" According to "Billboard", Chapman earned about $500,000 in publishing royalties in the first few months after the release of Combs' version.
When Combs' version of "Fast Car" hit number one on the Country Airplay chart in July 2023, Chapman became the first black woman to score a country number one with a solo composition. At the 57th Annual Country Music Association Awards in November 2023, Chapman notably became the first Black woman or Black songwriter to ever win a CMA Award, winning Song of the Year. In February 2024, Chapman performed the song with Combs at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, in her first televised live performance in nine years.
Commercial performance.
Combs' version of "Fast Car" became a smash hit on radio, reaching number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100, higher than Chapman's original version, and on the Canadian Hot 100, tying it with "Forever After All" as Combs' highest-charting single on the former. On the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart dated August 5, 2023, it sat at number three, behind Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" and Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" at one and two, making it the first time in that chart's history that the top three positions were all occupied by country artists.
The song reached number one on the Country Airplay chart in July 2023, making Chapman the first black woman to score a country number one with a solo composition. Additionally, it became the first cover of a pop single to top a "Billboard" chart based on country radio airplay since Blake Shelton's version of Michael Bublé's 2005 single "Home" reached number one in 2008. On the Country Airplay chart dated September 9, 2023, it held the number two position behind Combs' own "Love You Anyway" at the top, making it the first time in that chart's history that the top two positions were simultaneously occupied by the same artist with no accompanying performers, and only the second time that such a distinction has been achieved by any act overall (with or without accompanying performers).
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Live Fast, Die Fast
Live Fast, Die Fast: Wicked Tales of Booze, Birds and Bad Language is the debut album by English heavy metal band Wolfsbane, released in 1989. The album was produced by Rick Rubin for his Def American label. Promotional videos were made for two songs from this album, "Man Hunt" and "I Like It Hot", both of which received significant airplay on MTV's "Headbangers Ball".
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Live Fast, Diarrhea
Live Fast, Diarrhea is the fourth studio album by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1995 by Nitro Records. It was the band's first album for Nitro, a label started and co-owned by Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel of The Offspring. It was also the first to be produced by Vandals guitarist Warren Fitzgerald, who would continue to produce most of their albums throughout their career, and the first to include Brooks Wackerman, who often substituted for regular drummer Josh Freese. It was a breakthrough release for the band, who would release three more albums on Nitro before moving to their own label Kung Fu Records in 2002.
The album's title is a play on the saying "live fast, die young," a popular phrase in the punk community of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The album cover is a drawing by Fitzgerald of a man shooting a pistol at an airplane, with the title misspelled as "diarrea." The artwork in the liner notes includes a memo stating that the band may absolutely not use this picture on the cover. This seems to indicate that the drawing was intended as a concept for an actual photo of a man shooting at a plane, but that someone, possibly at the record label, forbade the band from using such a photo, so they simply substituted the concept drawing.
An independent music video was filmed for the song "I Have a Date," which is a cover of a song by a relatively obscure Orange County punk band called The Simpletones. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is also a cover, of a song from the Disney movie "Mary Poppins". On the track there is a musical nod to Bad Religion's 'Fuck Armageddon, This is Hell' in the intro and 'We're Only Going To Die' in the breakdown of this song. Other references to Disney occur in the songs "Get in Line," which describes the experience of waiting in line at a theme park ride and includes an unmistakable message from a Disneyland attraction, and "Power Mustache," which deals with an employee grooming policy at Disneyland. Several of the band members visited Disneyland frequently as youths, and this was not the first time they had referenced it in song. "Ape Shall Never Kill Ape" is also a film reference, to the original "Planet of the Apes".
Both the album and band gained increased attention thanks to an episode of the popular television show "The X-Files" which aired on June 10, 1995 (episode 3x03: "D.P.O."). Actor Giovanni Ribisi plays a teenager in a small town who has the power to control electricity and summon lightning, and wears a number of Vandals T-shirts throughout the episode. The final scene shows Ribisi's character incarcerated but using his power to change the channels on a television while the Vandals song "Live Fast, Diarrhea" plays. According to the band the idea to include their music came from "X-Files" creator Chris Carter, who was a longtime fan of punk rock and also a friend of band member Joe Escalante.
Reception.
AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album 1-and-a-half stars, stating that "the Vandals haven't grown up at all on their fifth album" and that "neither their humor nor their musical skills have developed past the junior-high level, as they still pound out three-chord punk at a fast clip, shouting out jokey vulgarities."
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Trail in Life (song)
"Trail in Life" is a song written and recorded by Canadian country music artist Dean Brody. It was released in October 2010 as the third single to his 2010 album "Trail in Life". The song reached number 81 on the Canadian Hot 100 in early 2011.
Content.
The narrator is a man who wonders what happened to his teenage mother who gave him up for adoption.
Reception.
Roughstock critic Matt Bjorke called it a "beautifully written and sung song that recalls Garth Brooks’ "What She's Doing Now" in some parts but is a much, much more interesting song in that the verses discuss different parts of the narrator's life, from that first love to that college best friend to his life as an adopted child in a loving family." He goes on to call it "personal and intimate."
Music video.
The music video was directed by Jeth Weinrich and premiered in November 2010. The music video was filmed in Manhattan and Montauk, New York, the video also features scenes set at Long Island’s Deep Hollow Ranch.
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Fast (Juice Wrld song)
2019 song by Juice Wrld
"Fast" is a song by American rapper Juice Wrld, released on March 8, 2019, as the fifth track from his second studio album "Death Race for Love". A music video for the song was released on April 9, 2019. The song was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 29, 2021.
Composition.
In "Fast", Juice Wrld delves into introspective themes, contemplating the trappings of fame. The artist also reflects on his meteoric success and the effects-both negative and positive- that it has had on him, while maintaining he is "still the same dude [he] was back then".
Music video.
The accompanying music video for "Fast" adopts a minimalist narrative approach, prioritizing the use of striking visual effects and themes of psychedelia. The video includes intimate shots of Juice Wrld delivering his verses with imagery featuring race cars, complemented by elements of macrophilia. The vibrant palette and dynamic light trails add to the album's overarching motif of speed and racing. Directed by Alexandre Moors, the video has received over 94 million views as of May 2024.
Credits and personnel.
Credits adapted from Tidal.
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Fast Life (Paul Wall album)
Fast Life is the fourth solo studio album by American rapper Paul Wall. It was released on May 12, 2009, via Swishahouse and Asylum Records.
Production was handled by Beanz & Kornbread, Travis Barker, X-Fyle, Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson, Gennessee Lewis, Happy Perez, I.N.F.O. & Nova, Mouse and Young Chill, with G-Dash and Michael "5000" Watts serving as executive producers. It features guest appearances from Z-Ro, Baby Bash, Gorilla Zoe, Kobe, Krizz Kaliko, Lil' Keke, Marty James, Mouse, Tech N9ne, The Federation, Too Short, Trae tha Truth, Webbie, Young Chill, Yung Joc and Yung Redd, as well as Paul Wall's short-lived hip hop supergroup Expensive Taste.
Background.
Rapper Paul Wall spoke about the album "Fast Life", about taking something stronger than his previous albums, with both his lyrics and its production; as well as cover several more topics:
I really stepped it up a lot lyrically because I wanted this record to show real strength and emotion because y'all know Rap is so deep at times and I took that opportunity to just write lyrics that told my story and showed people that I mean something deep which y'all never really realised but now realise, also on the production side we really stepped it up a lot. We worked with a lot of new producers, a lot of new artists that I didn't work with in the past, so they'll get to see a lot of different vibes that they might have not seen with me with past albums. Subject matter we went a little more in-depth, talked about a lot of different things that I never really spoke on—I might have mentioned it here and there but never really made whole songs about. I had a lot of fun working on the album.
"You're going to hear in-depth topics," he says, adding that he's been recording nonstop for the album for the last two years, a feat that has given him more than 50 songs to choose from. "You'll hear some stuff that you might not be used to hearing."
Singles.
The album's lead single "Bizzy Body" featuring Webbie and Mouse, who