Here (In Your Arms)

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"Here (In Your Arms)"
HereInYourArms-Hellogoodbye.jpg
Single by Hellogoodbye
from the album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
B-side "Baby, It's Fact" (live)
ReleasedAugust 8, 2006 (2006-08-08)
Genre
Length4:01
Label
Songwriter(s) Forrest Kline
Producer(s)
Hellogoodbye singles chronology
"Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn"
(2005)		"Here (In Your Arms)"
(2006)		"All of Your Love"
(2007)
Music video
"Here (In Your Arms)" on YouTube

"Here (In Your Arms)" is the lead single from Hellogoodbye's debut studio album, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! (2006), released on August 8, 2006. The song peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum in the United States. The song was released in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2007, [1] peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart. It also entered the top 10 in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

Contents

Background and composition

Selected as the lead single for their debut studio album, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! , Forrest Kline revealed at first, the band's label Drive-Thru did not see the song as a single. However, they were opened to letting Kline make the decision to releasing the song as one. [2]

The song was written by Forrest Kline, while production was handled by Matt Mahaffey and Jeff Turzo. [3] Musically, critics described the track as electropop, [4] power pop, [5] pop [6] and synthpop. [7] Critics have also compared the sound to the likes of Cher and Daft Punk. [5] [8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Bill Lamb of About.com wrote, "The sound lies somewhere between mainstream power pop and Daft Punk. If there is a downside to 'Here (In Your Arms)', it's that there really is very little of a song here. It's a very simple idea expanded out for almost 4 minutes. However, the sheer joyfulness of the sound and the goofy humor of the band's accompanying video are likely to win you over." [5] Fraser McAlpine of BBC stated, "The lyrics are cutely romantic without getting sickly and the rest is upbeat enough to make it irresistibly danceable without being cheesy or irritating and from the gentle, almost-synthy beginning it builds into a massive ball of sheer, unadulterated glee." [6] Tom Breihan of Village Voice Media said the song "makes good on their synthpop flirtations, turning them into euphoric liquid grace [...] an effortless blast, never showy in its genre-splicing audacity." [7] The Ledger remarked, "It incorporates both the techno chorus and the softer, heartfelt verses." [9]

Chart performance

"Here (In Your Arms)" debuted at number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100. [10] It was released to contemporary hit radio in November 2006, and for the week ending November 26, it received 23 spins and rose to number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100. [11] It peaked at number 14 on the chart. [12]

Music video

The video was released on July 26, 2006, and was directed by Scott Culver. [13] It was shot at Golden Oak Ranch in Los Angeles. The video is set at Camp Holadios, a fictional summer camp. [14] While the band members are all staying there, Forrest becomes interested in a girl who is also at camp. The campers play with pogs. The video is also reminiscent of the film Wet Hot American Summer . [15] One of the references to this movie is when Forrest puts on the headband and sunglasses similar to the change that "Coop" undergoes to win the affection of a girl with the same name, "Katie". Chewing gum is another major reference, where campers in the film are seen chewing gum before they kiss. The camp name "HOLADIOS", written in all capital letters on the sign seen at the beginning and end of the video, can be read as HOLA'ADIOS, which is "Hellogoodbye" in Spanish, but the campers at the end of video are seen wearing t-shirts with the capitalization written as "HolaDios" which is Spanish for HelloGod. Below the camp's name on the sign it states "Summer of 91' ".

Track listings

Personnel

Credits for "Here (In Your Arms)" adapted from album's liner notes. [3]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Here (In Your Arms)"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [1] Silver200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [50] Platinum1,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Here (In Your Arms)"
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United StatesAugust 8, 2006 Digital download Drive-Thru [50]
AustraliaOctober 28, 2006 CD Cortex [20]
United KingdomApril 13, 2007Digital downloadDrive-Thru [1]
May 14, 2007CD [6]
VariousAugust 20, 2007Digital download [51]

Cover versions

British radio host Chris Moyles performed a parody of the song called "Beer in Your Arms" on his show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. [52]

References

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  2. ↑ Hayden Manders (August 9, 2016). "Hellogoodbye's Forrest Kline on the Impact of Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!". (magazine)|Nylon . Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! (booklet). Hellogoodbye. Drive-Thru Records/Sony BMG Music Entertainment. 2007. 88697096572.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  5. 1 2 3 4 Bill Lamb. Review: Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms) About.com . Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Fraser McAlpine (May 6, 2007). "BBC - Chart Blog: Hellogoodbye - 'Here in Your Arms'". BBC .
  7. 1 2 Tom Breihan (February 6, 2007). "Hellogoodbye: Emo Doesn't Always Suck". Village Voice Media . Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Hellogoodbye greets new CD". The Orange County Register . August 8, 2006. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
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  14. ↑ "12 music videos that'll make you wish it were summer already". Alternative Press . April 4, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
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  17. ↑ Here (In Your Arms) (European CD single liner notes). Drive-Thru Records. 2006. 88697 14462 0.
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  20. 1 2 Here (In Your Arms) (Australian CD single liner notes). Cortex Records. 2006. CORX219CD.
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  42. ↑ "Hellogoodbye Chart History (Dance/Mix Show Airplay)". Billboard . Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  43. ↑ "Hellogoodbye Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard . Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
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