"Move Along"
Single by The All-American Rejects
from the album Move Along
Released	February 28, 2006
Format	CD single, 7" vinyl, digital download
Recorded	2005
Genre	Alternative rock, power pop
Length	4:02
Label	Interscope
Writer(s)	Nick Wheeler, Tyson Ritter
Producer	Howard Benson
The All-American Rejects singles chronology
"Dirty Little Secret" (2005) "Move Along" (2006) "It Ends Tonight" (2006)

"Move Along" is the title track and second single taken from The All-American Rejects' second studio album Move Along. "Move Along" is the band's most enduring single. The track stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 50 for 39 weeks because of the amount of time it took to surface. It was released in February and peaked at #1 in TRL but didn't chart until late March, since their single "Dirty Little Secret" was still performing on the Billboard charts. To date, "Move Along" has sold over 2 million digital downloads.

[edit] Track listing

UK limited edition 7" vinyl

• Side A: "Move Along"
• Side B: "Kiss Yourself Goodbye"

[edit] Music video

Here are three frames in three seconds during the chorus of the video.

The music video was directed by Marc Webb. It starts off with Tyson Ritter falling into an empty pool before the song starts. When the song begins he stands there singing while the background and his outfit changes over and over. Then it goes back to the scene in which he falls into the pool. People appear out of nowhere and carry him to a piano and the rest of the band. The quick-cut style of the video was inspired by Marlowe Gregorio, who posted his own version of the video on YouTube.^{[citation needed]} Also, the drummer Chris Gaylor can be seen wearing a t-shirt for the crust punk band Filth and Tyson wearing a Our Lady of Guadalupe shirt.

The video follows the general theme presented by the lyrics of the song, that of perseverance through difficulties. Most of the video is that of Tyson Ritter standing somewhat still while rapidly changing outfits give the appearance of different scenes. The first scene being Ritter as an white-collar worker being yelled at by his manager. The scenes (and his appearance) change, showing him to be a surgeon who has apparently been unsuccessful in saving a patient; eating supper alone at the dinner table, while the chair across the table has a place setting, but sits empty; placing an engagement ring on a girl's finger, only to have her remove it and walk away; a family member of a victim of a heart attack; the driver of a car that has crashed into a street light; a football player that is on the losing end of a 58-7 beating; a young man suffering the harsh end of a angry father's tirade.

[edit] Chart performance

According to Billboard Magazine, "Move Along" was rated the #21 best song of 2006 on the "Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2006".^[6] Thought it didn't place as high on the Hot 100 singles chart as "Dirty Little Secret", it placed much higher on this year-end chart due to it's durability, spending many weeks on the Hot 100. Also on Blender Magazine's "The 100 Greatest Songs of 2005", "Move Along" was rated #84. ^[7] "Move Along" was also a nominee for state rock song of Oklahoma, but lost to the Flaming Lips.

The song charted at #15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and went top 10 on the Pop 100 Airplay chart. It also went to #4 on the Hot Digital Tracks chart.

The band performed the song at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. The video for "Move Along" won the award for "Best Group Video" at that ceremony.

[edit] Appearances on popular culture

[edit] Television

"Move Along" has appeared numerous times on television. The song was featured in the Bionicle promotion commercials for the Toa Inika, and the band itself was included in a promotion for the toy-line called "Free the Band", in which people could win the aforementioned sets. The song was the official theme song to the 2006 Raw Diva Search and was briefly used as an entrance theme for Layla El during her first appearances on Smackdown. "Move Along" was on the Ford truck commercials in 2008, was played in a music video for the Beijing 2008 summer Olympics CBC coverage. "Move Along" was in the American Idol music video for "Rock Week" in 2009. The song was also featured on the "What Moves You?" Cartoon Network national recess week commercial, and was in episode #3.02 "From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea" of One Tree Hill (TV series)

[edit] Miscellaneous

"Move Along" was played in the movies She's the Man (along with "Dirty Little Secret"), as well as and Firehouse Dog. The entire song is played at the beginning of the 2007 motion picture The Hitcher. "Move Along" is available as a downloadable song in the 2007 music video game series Rock Band, along with "Dirty Little Secret",^[8] which was developed by Harmonix. "Move Along" was played at President Obama's Grant Park rally in 2008. Also the US Navy's VAW-113 Black Eagles Squadron created a humorist Youtube video with entire squadron lipsyncing to the song.^[9].

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