Mess Around (Cage the Elephant song)

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{{Infobox song

| name = Mess Around

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Cage the Elephant

| album = Tell Me I'm Pretty

| released = {{Start date|2015|10|29}}

| format =

| recorded = Spring 2015

| studio = Easy Eye Sound, Nashville, Tennessee

| venue =

| genre =

| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=53}}

| label = RCA

| writer = {{flatlist|

• Jared Champion
• Brad Shultz
• Matt Shultz
• Daniel Tichenor

}}

| producer = Dan Auerbach

| prev_title = Cigarette Daydreams

| prev_year = 2014

| next_title = Trouble

| next_year = 2016

}}

"Mess Around" is a song by American rock band Cage the Elephant. It was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and was released as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album Tell Me I'm Pretty on October 29, 2015. It topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the United States, becoming the band's sixth overall chart-topper.{{cite news | url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6866842/cage-the-elephant-alternative-songs-record| title=Cage the Elephant Tops Alternative Songs, Ties for Sixth-Most No. 1s All-Time| work=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media |date=February 4, 2016|accessdate=February 5, 2016 | author=Rutherford, Kevin}} In 2016, it was featured in Acura's Summer of Performance Event TV spot, "Weekends: RDX".{{cite web|url=https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ADDy/acura-summer-of-performance-event-weekends-rdx|title=Acura Summer of Performance Event TV Commercial, 'Weekends: MDX'}}