They Rage On

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"They Rage On"
Single by Dan Seals
from the album Rage On
B-side "Factory Town" [1]
ReleasedFebruary 1989
Genre Country
Length4:40
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Kyle Lehning
Dan Seals singles chronology
"Big Wheels in the Moonlight"
(1988)
"They Rage On"
(1989)
"Love on Arrival"
(1990)

"They Rage On" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Dan Seals. It was released in February 1989 as the third and final single from his album Rage On . It peaked at #5 on the Billboard country charts in June 1989, thus breaking his streak of number-one hits. It was his first single to miss the #1 spot since his early-1985 single "My Old Yellow Car", which peaked at #9. The song was written by Seals and Bob McDill.

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Music video

The music video was directed by Neil Abramson. This video, in particular, played on the song's theme of the irony of small-town values with the depiction of an inter-racial relationship. In it, a white teen-aged boy falls in love with an Asian girl, angering the boy's friends to the point they vandalize the boy's car; one boy attempts to assault the girl's father by hurling a beer bottle at him (the bottle misses). [2]

Chart positions

Chart (1989)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [3] 4
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 5

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [5] 38
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 56

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