Thunder (Boys Like Girls song)

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Name = Thunder


Artist = Boys Like Girls
from Album = Boys Like Girls
Released = flagicon|United States May 6 2008
Format = Digital download
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Pop punk
Length = 3:56 (Album version)
4:00 (Radio Remix)
3:58 (Acoustic/Demo Version)
Label = Columbia/Red Ink
Writer = Martin Johnson
Paul DiGiovanni
Certification =
Last single = "Hero/Heroine"
(2007)
This single = "Thunder"
(2008)
Next single =

"Thunder" is the third single taken from Boys Like Girls' debut album, "Boys Like Girls".

This song was released as an acoustic version first, before it appeared on the band's first album, and over 2 years before the song's official single release. It impacted to radio on May 6, 2008 [ [http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16691 FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News and more! ] ] . The band first posted the radio remix of the song on their Myspace profile on March 11, 2008. It was the first song Boys Like Girls ever wrote and was written about Martin's high school sweetheart.

Music video

The music video shows a group of friends, in which there are couples, hang out. The music video starts with the band playing, and then moves on to the friends going to restaurant to eat, with intervals of the band playing. The friends then go a field, where they drink and laugh. The friends then start making a human pyramid, but fail. The couples start hanging out alone and kissing. From this on, the band is shown playing in the rain. The friends are then shown going to a swimming pool and start swimming, with a couple kissing underwater. They then run through a carpark and stand by the railings to see the sunrise. The couples are then kissing again, and the music video ends with the band leaving their instruments.

The music video "Thunder" was filmed in Cerritos, California, a small suburb South-east of Los Angeles. The video was shot in many different locations throughout Cerritos, which include: Tall Mouse Crafts store off South Street and Carmenita, Jack's Restaurant off Carmenita and South Street, Cerritos Park East Park/Rec Center off Ironbark Drive and 166th Street, Cerritos Park East Swim Center off 166th Street and Carmenita, and a commercial parking structure off Towne Center Drive and Park Plaza Drive near the Cerritos Towne Center and across the street from the Cerritos Millenium Library.

The main location where the band is seen playing in the street is unknown at this time, seemingly a cul-de-sac somewhere in Cerritos, CA.

Promotion

A promotion event was held for the making a fan rendition of the "Thunder" music video.

Burgita Productions won the contest allowing them the chance to be present in the "Thunder" music video shooting in Cerritos, California, as well as a chance to film the making of the "Thunder" music video.

The music video premiered on Friday, June 20, 2008 on MTV [ [http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1589191&vid=250207 Thunder Music Video ] ] . This song is Amazin!!!!!!!!!(AAron)

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External links

*youtube|mXuxRWXisUQ|"Thunder" music video