- Where Are We Runnin'?
Infobox Single
Name = Where Are We Runnin'?
Artist =Lenny Kravitz
from Album = Baptism
Released=May 10 ,2004
Format=CD Single
Genre =Hard rock
Length = 2:41
Label =Virgin America
Writer =Lenny Kravitz
Craig Ross
Producer =Lenny Kravitz
Chart position =- #3 (
Argentina ) - #18 (United World Chart)
- #69 (U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 )
Last single = "Yesterday Is Gone (My Dear Kay)"
(2002)
This single = "Where Are We Runnin'?"
(2004)
Next single = "California"
(2004)"Where Are We Runnin'?" is the lead single by rock musician
Lenny Kravitz from his2004 album "Baptism". Lyrics were written by Kravitz, and music by Kravitz andCraig Ross .Composition
"Where Are We Runnin'?" is an uptempo rock song. Kravitz wrote the song inspired by contemporary rock musicians' lives, describing them as busy and worried.
Chart performance
The song did regular in U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 , peaking at number sixty-nine and was Kravitz's first successful song in the United States since "Fly Away". However, it reached top twenty in the United World Chart, peaking at number eighteen and number three inArgentina , with a run of fifteen weeks. [http://www.top40argentina.com.ar/2004.htm]Music video
The music video for "Where Are We Runnin'?" was directed by
Philip Andelman and Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz tries to perform a common rock musician life, in the video. It starts with Kravitz waking up with some girls around, in a hotel room. After he gets up, he takes a limousine which takes him to the airport. Inside the private jet, Kravitz, his band and the girls are shown having fun. Kravitz and the band arrive, and then they are shot doing a stage performance of the song. The video ends up with Kravitz in an exhaust mood, in front of a mirror, in the dressing room.Trivia
*In the music video, while Kravitz is in the elevator, his song, "
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over ", is being played as the ambient music for the elevator.
*Model and actressAlyssa Sutherland appears in the music video [http://www.clipland.com/Wiki/SupermodelsInMusicVideos] .
*In an interview with "Rolling Stone ",R&B bandMaroon 5 describe their "most epic quarrel" as an argument betweenAdam Levine andJames Valentine concerning the final shot of the music video for "Where Are We Runnin'?" [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15982217/maroon_5_at_the_corner_of_hollywood_and_heartbreak] .ingle track listing
# "Where Are We Runnin'?"
# "Uncharted Terrain"
# "Destiny"- #3 (
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