Shooting Stars (song)
| "Shooting Stars" | |
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| Single by Bag Raiders | |
| from the album Bag Raiders | |
| Released | November 2009 |
| Recorded | 2007–08 |
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| Length | 3:55 |
| Label | Modular Recordings |
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| Shooting Stars on YouTube | |
"Shooting Stars" is a song by the Australian band Bag Raiders. The song was originally featured on the band's EP, Turbo Love, in 2008. The year afterwards, the song was released as a single from their eponymous debut album Bag Raiders. Although the song was released and charted in Australia in 2009, the song did not reach its peak there until 2013. It received international attention in February 2017 when the song became a part of a popular internet meme. The song reached number 11 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 9 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Chart that year.
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Jack Glass, a member of the band, said that the single inspired him to create their self-titled album, claiming that "people loved Shooting Stars so much and we liked that direction of songwriting and developing a pop sensibility ourselves, too." Glass also said that the band also played half of the song in clubs before the band realized that "people liked it and wanted to hear the whole thing."
The song is composed in G♯minor. The song's chorus is only played at the end of the song. The bass player is switched between the two band members in the verse and chorus.
Andrew Murfett of The Sydney Morning Herald described the song as "peppy track" and compared the song to works of Daft Punk.
In 2013, "Shooting Stars" was used on Australia's Got Talent, which led to the song entering the top 40 of the ARIA Singles Chart nearly four years after it was originally released due to downloads.
After the death of Harambe the gorilla in May 2016, an animated tribute featuring the song, using clips from Ego's music video for "The Crazy Things We Do", spread on the internet. In 2017, the song received greater international attention when the song became a part of a popular internet meme. The video that boosted the popularity of the meme was an upload on Reddit titled "Fat man does amazing dive". In the meme, the song is usually accompanied with people falling with surreal, spacey backgrounds. Chris Stracey, a member of the band, reacted to the meme, saying "At first we were like, ok this is funny I guess, but I didn't really get it so I thought "alright whatever". Once I started seeing a common theme though, such as the big guy jumping off the bridge into the river, that was the first one of the more recent stuff that really got me. So good! That and the Lady Gaga one is so funny."
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