F-F-F-Falling

Infobox Single
Name = F-F-F-Falling


Artist = The Rasmus
from Album = Into
Released = April 2, 2001
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2000 – 2001 at Nord Studios in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre = Pop rock
Length = 3:52
Label = Playground Music
Writer = Lauri Ylönen
Producer = Mikael Nord, Martin Hansen
Chart position = * #1 (Finland singles charts)
Last single = "Swimming with the Kids"
(1999)
This single = "F-F-F-Falling"
(2001)
Next single = "Chill"
(2001)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Into
Type = studio
prev_track = "Chill"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "F-F-F-Falling"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Heartbreaker"
next_no = 5

"F-F-F-Falling" (sometimes shorted down to "Falling") is a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released on the band's fourth album "Into" on October 29, 2001.

The single was released on April 2, 2001 by the record label Playground Music. It was the first single from the album "Into" and features the track "F-F-F-Falling" plus a video in MPEG-format, named "The Rasmus at Work", showing how the band made the album "Into".

The single went number one on the Finland Singles Chart later that year. It has been popular on many other chart lists as well.

"F-F-F-Falling" is a song with a lot of rock and pop melody. Many of the old Rasmus fans said that the song does not sound like a Rasmus song.

Before the band released their hit single "In the Shadows" in 2003, "F-F-F-Falling" was their biggest hit with the #1 position on the Finnish Singles Chart and good success on many radio stations outside the native country Finland.

ingle track listing

# "F-F-F-Falling" – 3:52
# "The Rasmus at Work" (video in MPEG-format)

Music video

The music video for "F-F-F-Falling" was shot in Helsinki, Finland the same year. The video shows different clips of the band in a studio and a girl who doesn't like to go to school. This relates to the lyrics "I don't go to school every Monday. I've got my reason to sleep. Don't you tell me how I should be".

It also shows members of the band dressed in beach-style clothes, and singer Lauri Ylönen wearing skater pads while playing the song in an apartment that looks like a recording studio. In the video the girl meets a friend (also a girl) at a train station. The girls spend a lot of time together listening to music in a shop (that appears to be the song that The Rasmus plays in the apartment) and riding on the bus. Later they change clothes in the same room, go to the toilet in the street, dance everywhere, and kiss in a car, to the point that they kiss in the bed of the first girl, leading to them sleeping together. In the morning, the girl thinks about what she has done and looks like she regrets her actions. The members of the band, in some parts, look pained about what happens to the girls.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jkDnufN_to "F-F-F-Falling" music video] on YouTube

Comments from the band

Eero Heinonen (bassist)

"This song has been selected to become the first single, because it's something special. People think 'What's that? That doesn't sound like The Rasmus!' when they hear the song."

Lauri Ylönen (singer/songwriter)

"The first sentence, about not going to school on Monday. That's true, because Monday was the day to practice our new songs." [ [http://www.therasmus-hellofasite.it/thebandSongsM-eng.htm "F-F-F-Falling" song meaning] ]

Chart position

Reissues

"F-F-F-Falling" also appears as a remixed version (US Remix) on following releases: [ [http://www.therasmus-hellofasite.it/en/discography-DeadLetters.htm Releases where the "F-F-F-Falling" remixed version appears on] ]
*"Dead Letters" – Finnish edition (2003)
*"Dead Letters" – USA/UK edition (2004)
*"Dead Letters" – Japanese edition (2004)

References

External links

* [http://www.therasmus.com The Rasmus' official website]
* [http://www.therasmus.org.uk/FFFFallingLyrics.htm Lyrics]