Rope is the first single by the American Alternative Rock Band “Foo Fighters” from the seventh album by the band “Wasting Light”. The writer of the song is Dave Grohl with Butch Vig as a producer. The song was first premiered on radio on February 23, 2011and the official release of song was held on March 1, 2011. The song was not released as a CD but digital download of the single was available. However a 12 inch Vinyl single was released on May 9, 2011. The song was originally recorded during the sessions between “Echoes, Silence, Patience, grace” and “Wasting light”. However the current version of the song was recorded during the sessions of “Wasting Light”. Rope is the only second song to debut top on Rock songs chart after Linkin Park’s “The Catalyst” in 2010. After spending Seventeen consecutive weeks in pole position, “Rope” currently holds the record for most weeks at #1 position on Rock songs chart.
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The first television premiere of the song was at the 2011 NME Awards where the band was present for Dave Grohl to collect the “Godlike Genius” award. The song is pretty simple and stays true to the Foo Fighters classic rock singles. The entire song is recorded on Analog tape and hence the quality of the song seems amazing. The intro of the song is different from other songs. The vocals used in the song are very soft which makes the song soft to ear. Dave singing “Gimme some rope, I am coming loose on you” is the chorus to the song. The song is upbeat and the creative side of Foo Fighters is easily visible in song. The Guitar solo proves too much in the middle of the song but then the song kicks up and grooves till the end. In the song the backing Vocals are much more up front than the previous work of the band.
The video of the song was premiered from an MTV.com contest winner’s house in Los Angeles followed by an interview. Video of the song is pretty simple and damn great. The video begins with quick cuts to each band member playing their instruments and singing the lyrics of song “Rope”. The concept of the video remains same throughout the video in a lit room with style of background light changing throughout. At start members are simply lit with bright background which changes to harsh silhouette lighting in the next scene. This causes the members to look like cartoons. In the next portion the lightning changes from white to strobe pattern of green, blue, red, and purple. The video continues till the end of the song. During end of the video, the camera pulls out to show white box which that the entire video was shot without the use of CGI lighting effect during editing process in real time.
Foo Fighters - Rope Lyrics video from Youtube
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