"You're Going Down" is the lead single from
Sick Puppies
Sick Puppies is an Australian alternative metal band formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1997. After releasing their debut album '' Welcome to the Real World'' in 2001, the band rose to prominence in 2006 when their song " All the Same" was u ...
' third album ''
Tri-Polar''.
"You're Going Down" was used by
WWE
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to represent their ''
Extreme Rules'' pay-per-view event as its official theme song. The wrestling promotion also used the song by making it part of the soundtrack to their video game ''
SmackDown vs. Raw 2010''. It was also used in a pre-game video package for the
Montreal Alouettes
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at the
96th Grey Cup
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and the opening theme for the 2010 live-action film adaptation of ''
Tekken
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The ...
''.
The official release date was 2 June 2009 but the band had already begun streaming the song through their
Myspace page.
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It is also the part of the trailer for ''My Soul to Take
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''.
When Moore was asked how he wrote the song his answer was, "I asked myself, when you're getting pumped up to get into the ring, what would you want to hear? And that's what came out."
Music video
The full video for "You're Going Down" premiered on 11 August 2009 on both MTV2
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The channel launched initially as an all-music video service, once the original MTV had started to sh ...
and mtvU
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, as well as th
mtvU website
The next day, it became available for viewing on Sick Puppies Myspace page, as well as their YouTube
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channel.YouTube – "You're Going Down"
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To contrast the heavy, aggressive sound of the song, the video features small children throwing water balloons at each other and shooting each other with water guns. The main humor comes from the fact that it is shot in a very serious way, similar to ''Saving Private Ryan
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'', so that it appears to be a real war. The kids talk on walkie talkies and appear to die as if fighting with real weapons. The video cuts back and forth between this story and scenes of the band performing the song. Unlike most videos that are part story and part performance, this video has much more of the band performing than of the kids fighting.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
{{Sick Puppies singles
2009 singles
2009 songs
Sick Puppies songs
Songs written by Shimon Moore
Songs written by Antonina Armato
Songs written by Tim James (musician)
Songs written by Emma Anzai
Song recordings produced by Rock Mafia
Virgin Records singles