Friend Like That

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"Friend Like That"
Single by Hawk Nelson
from the album Hawk Nelson Is My Friend
Released December 24, 2007
Recorded May 15, 2005
Genre Pop punk
Christian punk
Length2:48 (Album Version), 2:50 (Single Version)
Label Tooth & Nail
Songwriter(s) Hawk Nelson and Trevor McNevan
Producer(s) Aaron Sprinkle
Hawk Nelson singles chronology
"Zero"
(2006)		 "Friend Like That"
(2007)		 "Live Life Loud"
(2009)

"Zero"
(2006)		 "Friend Like That"
(2008)		 "Live Life Loud"
(2009)

"Friend Like That" is the first single from Hawk Nelson's third album, Hawk Nelson Is My Friend . [1] It was released on Christmas Eve of 2007. This song is on the Digital Praise PC game Guitar Praise. This song was appearing by the compilation album WOW Hits 2009 and his regular versions.

Hawk Nelson Canadian band

Hawk Nelson is a Canadian Christian rock and pop punk band from Peterborough, Ontario. Formed in 2000, the band has released eight studio albums to date.

<i>Hawk Nelson Is My Friend</i> 2008 studio album by Hawk Nelson

Hawk Nelson Is My Friend, stylized on the album cover as Hawk Nelson... Is My Friend!, is the third full-length studio album from Christian rock band Hawk Nelson. It was released on April 1, 2008, debuting at No. 34 on the Billboard 200. In the first week of its release the album sold a little over 30,000 copies. Hawk Nelson wrote the songs, as usual together with Trevor McNevan, but this time also with Richard Marx and Raine Maida. The album was produced by award-winning David Bendeth.

Christmas Eve Evening or entire day before Christmas Day

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Release

"Friend Like That" was released as single through iTunes on December 24, 2007. [2] In its first week of release to iTunes, the song sold 25,000 digital copies. [1]

iTunes Store digital media store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. that opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of January 2017, iTunes offered over 35-40 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,000 TV shows, and 65,000 films. When it opened, it was the only legal digital catalog of music to offer songs from all five major record labels. As of June 2013, iTunes Store possessed 575 million active user accounts, and served over 315 million mobile devices, including Apple Watches, iPods, iPhones, Apple TV and iPads.

In the week of March 19, 2008, "Friend Like That" was at #5 on R&R's Christian CHR chart, and had jumped to the #3 position on the Christian rock songs chart. [3] [4] It ended 2008 as the eleventh most-played song on R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart for the year. [5]

R&R was a weekly music trade publication that followed the radio industry and tracked the monitoring of current songs by format, station and audience cumes. The magazine was a sister publication to Billboard magazine and was mostly available through subscription to people who work in the radio industry and music chart enthusiasts, as well as various record stores and newsstands. On June 5, 2009, parent company AC Nielsen ceased operations on R&R just short of three years after acquiring the former independent trade periodical. When it ceased publication in 2009, R&R was the successor-in-interest of publications that traced their operations back to 1973.

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Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent.

Style

Allmusic reviewer Rick Anderson called the song "charmingly goofy. ['Friend Like That'] acts as the distilled essence of the band's trademark approach: slightly whimsical lyrics, a shout-along chorus, and a song that somehow adds up to more than the sum of its parts." [6]

Lyrics are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, as a "librettist". The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of expression. Rappers can also create lyrics that are meant to be spoken rhythmically rather than sung.

Refrain line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse

A refrain is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry; the "chorus" of a song. Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the villanelle, the virelay, and the sestina.

Music video

In the music video for "Friend Like That", the band members are in a cartoon world, populated by characters and scenery also seen on the cover art and "board game" in the special-edition version of the album Hawk Nelson Is My Friend. Lead singer Jason Dunn is singing as he runs, while the others wait patiently for him to reach the group. He finally comes and they drive off. After stopping off, they enter a building and find themselves playing a live concert on stage.

Cartoon form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art

A cartoon is a type of illustration, possibly animated, typically in a non-realistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved over time, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images intended for satire, caricature, or humor; or a motion picture that relies on a sequence of illustrations for its animation. Someone who creates cartoons in the first sense is called a cartoonist, and in the second sense they are usually called an animator.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hawk Nelson Has 18,075 Friends". CCM Magazine . 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  2. ↑ "Hawk Nelson Make Friends, Release New Single This Christmas". Soul Shine Magazine. 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  3. ↑ "Hawk Nelson Storms The West On Their Green T Tour". BREATHEcast.com. 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  4. ↑ "Hawk Nelson Storms The West Coast On Their Green T Tour". Breathe Cast. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  5. ↑ 2008 Year End Charts/Top Christian CHR songs Archived May 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine ., R&R magazine, Retrieved January 15, 2009
  6. ↑ Rick Anderson. "Hawk Nelson Is My Friend Review". Allmusic . Retrieved 2008-08-02.


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