"S.O.B." is a song by American

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band Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. It was released as the lead single from their self-titled debut album. The song gained exposure after the band performed it on

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's ''The Tonight Show'' on August 5, 2015.

Content

Rateliff has said the song is, at heart, a troubled song about drinking one's life away after a break-up, and explained that the lyrics are based on his personal experience with

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during alcohol withdrawal. He also described it as a "joke song" and said that originally his band did not plan to record it, but due to positive reception, did so and released it as a single.

Music video

The music video was released on July 15, 2015. It was directed and edited by Greg Barnes, and produced by Melissa Giles. The video depicts Nathaniel Rateliff and his band performing the song in front of an audience of

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s and is an homage to the end credits scene of the 1980 film ''

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Usage in media

*In late May 2016 and again in 2017, "S.O.B." was featured on

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's iced tea commercials. *In April 2017, "S.O.B." was featured in the season three premiere of FX's '' Fargo''. *In May 2017, "S.O.B." was featured in an advertisement for Infiniti's Spring sales campaign. *In February 2018, "S.O.B." was featured in promos for the second season of the IFC comedy ''

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''. *"S.O.B." is used as the theme for the BBC sitcom '' Two Doors Down''. *It was also featured in the first episode of DC Comics “Titans” series in Netflix in October 2018. *The song features in the Netflix series

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, playing in Season 3, Episode 10, titled "Searching for Brown Sugar Man", released 1 November 2019.

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References

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