Help (Papa Roach song)

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"Help"
Single by Papa Roach
from the album Crooked Teeth
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2017 (2017-02-17)
Recorded2016
Genre Hard rock [1]
Length3:34
Label Eleven Seven
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Furlong
  • Brittain
Papa Roach singles chronology
"Gravity"
(2015)		"Help"
(2017)		"American Dreams"
(2017)
Music video
"Help" on YouTube

"Help" is a single by American rock band Papa Roach, from their ninth studio album Crooked Teeth . It topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in April 2017 for six consecutive weeks.

Contents

Background

The song was first released as a single on February 17, 2017. [2] [3] The song was produced by Nicholas Furlong and Colin Brittain, two younger, up-and-coming music producers the band chose to work with, to help find a new sound that mixed their Infest -era sound with more modern music. [2] [4] A music video for the song was released on May 1, 2017. [5] Directed by Darren Craig, the video features the band performing and shows footage of unfortunate life events happening to a man wearing a bunny costume. [5]

Themes and composition

Lyrically, the song's message is centered around surviving mental health issues. [4] The song features bass-driven verses, followed by a wash of heavy guitar and synths in the chorus, with frontman Jacoby Shaddix's recurring line in the chorus singing "I think I need help / I’m drowning in myself". [4] Rock Sound described the song as "infectious, emotional...powerful...a cry for help in musical form". [6] Shaddix described the song:

With a track like Help, that song kind of harkens back to 'Scars', but it’s a little bit more uptempo and upbeat than Scars is. But it’s just a dark anthem, and I like that juxtaposition...We tapped into that on a track like Scars back in the day, and we were, like, ‘All right. Let’s see if we wrote something in a major key again.’ We’ve done that with songs like Lifeline in the past...It’s got a little element of some old school with some new school. [7]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [16] Gold40,000‡
United States (RIAA) [17] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

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