2003Released
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Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Are You Gonna Be My Girl. By Songfacts®.

This was Jet's first hit song. It was also the first song to be used in the popular iPod commercials, where a black shadow of a person, listening to a white iPod danced to this tune in front of colorful backgrounds. These ads helped boost sales of iPods and of Jet albums.

This song took a lot of criticism its main riff, which sounds very close to the song "Lust For Life" by Iggy Pop. Much of Get Born took some heat for sounding like other classic rock songs.

This was a hit twice in the UK, in 2003 it reached #23 in the singles chart. The following year it was re-released after being featured in the Vodaphone picture messaging TV ads and this time it rose to #16 in the charts.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Are You Gonna Be My Girl.
DKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
105BPM

Album

The album Are You Gonna Be My Girl is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Are You Gonna Be My Girl.
Elektra Records
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States excluding Australia and New Zealand.
℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States excluding Australia and New Zealand.

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