We Belong
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We Belong is a 1984 Pat Benatar song written by Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro.
history
We Belong was released worldwide in October 1984 and reached the top 20 in the charts in many countries. After its release, the hit was nominated for the 1985 Grammy Awards , but lost to the Tina Turner classic Better Be Good to Me .
We Belong is 3:42 minutes long and appeared on the album Tropico . On the B-side of the single is the song Suburban King .
The song was played with acoustic guitar , electric guitar and drums . A children's choir sings in the background .
content
The song is about a woman in a relationship that is about to fail, but she and her partner are still too drawn to each other to let go.
Music video
In the music video, Pat Benatar offers the song with some studio musicians, the background changes.
Cover versions
- 1985: Herlinde Grobe No more fear (as Bianca)
- 1992: Rick Derringer
- 2009: The Bangles
- 2015: The Hextalls
Importance of the song in pop culture
- The song was used in the 2010 film Blue Valentine to illustrate the deadlocked relationship between the two main characters.
- The song was used during a flashback scene in the first episode of the seventh and final season of Nip / Tuck - Beauty Has Her Prize .
- The song was used in one of the final scenes in the 2006 film Ricky Bobby - King of the Racing Drivers.
- It was used in the computer game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories as a song for the fictional radio station Emotion 98.3.
- In 2006, the song was the musical theme of a multi-million dollar marketing campaign for Sheraton Hotels and Resorts .
- The song title is the name of episodes 5 of season 4 of the youth television series Instant Star
- In 2006 it appeared as one of the last songs in the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert for the film Priscilla - Queen of the Desert .
- A cover version was used in a commercial for United Way of America .
- The song was covered by Bethany Joy Lenz as Haley James-Scott on the television series One Tree Hill in the episode "Weeks Go By Like Days".
- It was used as a karaoke number by Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor during season 3 of The Office on NBC.
- It was covered by Kristen Alderson as Starr Manning and others on the television series Love, Lie, Passion in a musical episode.
- In 2003, the song was sung to Salma Hayek in an opening sequence on Saturday Night Live when the ensemble members pretended to be a Pat Benatar cover band.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ a b http://www.discogs.com/Pat-Benatar-We-Belong/release/1211080
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Pat-Benatar-Tropico/release/2641519
- ↑ We Belong at Songfacts.com (English), accessed August 24, 2019.
- ^ Music video in Dailymotion.com
- ↑ http://www.tv.com/nip-tuck/dan-daly/episode/1311776/summary.html
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/soundtrack
- ↑ Vice City Stories - Soundtrack ( Memento from July 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ YOU BELONG AT SHERATON SHERATON LAUNCHES $ 20 MILLION AD CAMPAIGN AND SIGNATURE "WARM WELCOME" EXPERIENCE ( Memento from August 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.serienjunkies.de/InstantStar/4x5-we-belong.html
- ↑ Song List ( Memento from February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXWoIdJUPH0