Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)

Infobox Single
Name = Run


Caption =
Artist = Gnarls Barkley
from Album = The Odd Couple
B-side =
Released = February 5, 2008
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative, soul, funk
Length = 2:44
Label = Warner Music
Writer = Danger Mouse
Cee-Lo
Producer = Danger Mouse
Last single = "Who Cares?" / "Gone Daddy Gone"
(2006)
This single = "Run"
(2008)
Next single = "Going On"
(2008)
Misc =

"Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)", also known more commonly as "Run", is a song written and recorded by Gnarls Barkley. It is the first single to be released from the band's second album "The Odd Couple". Released in February 2008 as a digital download in the UK and the U.S. via the iTunes Store, a physical release of the single followed in the UK on March 31. The song features a sample from Keith Mansfield's "Junior Jet Set" from the KPM Lp Flamboyant Themes KPM 1037.

Music video

The video premiered on MTV Overdrive on February 29, 2008. The video features Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse performing on a TV show called "City Vibin'", reminiscent of "Graffiti Rock". Cee-Lo Green sings the song behind a microphone stand, while Danger Mouse plays the song's music on a turntable. Justin Timberlake appears in a cameo as the host of the show. The video features dizzying special effects such as hypnotic spirals, and as a result was banned from airplay in the United States [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49129-new-gnarls-barkley-video-too-hot-for-tv Pitchfork] ] after failing the Harding Test (a test designed to protect sufferers of photosensitive epilepsy). As of March 5, 2008 the hypnotic spirals have been toned down upon request and the video premiered on TRL March 6, 2008. The video won for best choreography as well as best art direction in a video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

Chart performance

"Run" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 63 based on first-week sales of the digital single but the following week, it fell to number 86 and then again to number 95 but the following week it jumped back up to number 69 [ [http://www.theofficialcharts.com/top40_singles.php The Official UK Charts Company : TOP 100 SINGLES CHART] ] and then jumped to a new peak of number 51 a week later. It officially debuted on the UK Top 40 at number 32 on downloads alone and stayed there the following week with physical sales added. The song debuted at Japan's official J-Wave chart at number 100 in the last week of February. [ [http://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/tokiohot100/ Current TOKIO HOT 100] ]

References

External links

* [http://music.unrealitytv.co.uk/gnarls-barkley-run-review/ Review of "Run"] on Unreality Music