Bring It (Snakes on a Plane)

This is the title song to Snakes On A Plane, a very campy horror movie starring Samuel L. Jackson released in 2006. The plot is exactly what's described in the title. The song started out as a track called "Bring It" and was adapted for the film with lyrics that reference snakes and planes: Times are strange We've got a free upgrade For snakes on a plane

The band Cobra Starship was formed to record this song ("snakes" :: "cobra"... "plane" :: "starship" get it?). At the time, the "band" was just Gabe Saporta, whose group Midtown had recently broken up. Saporta teamed up with the producers Sam Hollander and Dave Katz, and together they wrote the song for the film. Since Saporta had no bandmates, they brought in guests to perform on the track: Travie McCoy does the rap and gets a writing credit on the song. His band Gym Class Heroes had worked with Hollander and Katz, who did production work on their 2006 album As Cruel As School Children. The Swedish singer Maja Ivarsson of the group The Sounds is the female vocalist. William Beckett of the band The Academy Is... handles the male vocal along with Saporta. All of them appear in the video, which shows them sneaking instrument cases full of snakes through airport security while Ivarsson distracts the agent. There are no scenes from the movie in the video, but its star, Samuel L. Jackson, shows up.

The video was directed by Lex Halaby and features a cameo by Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy, who is the guy at the payphone. Wentz was in the process of signing Cobra Starship to his Decaydance label.