Switchback (Celldweller song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Switchback
| cover = Switchbacksingle.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Celldweller
| album = Celldweller
| released = August 17, 2004
| format =
| recorded = 2000–2003
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 5:02
| label =
- Position
- FiXT
| writer = Klayton
| producer = Klayton
| prev_title = I Believe You
| prev_year = 2003
| next_title = Shapeshifter
| next_year = 2005
}}
"Switchback" is a song by the American electronic rock project Celldweller, released in 2003 on the self-titled debut album. Like other Celldweller tracks, "Switchback" has been licensed for media usage.{{cite web |url=http://www.celldweller.com/bio.html |title=Celldweller Bio |accessdate=August 31, 2015}}
Overview
=Background=
Klayton has described "Switchback" as the "most expensive song I've ever shelved", having recorded more than 50 demos for three years.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekji7sktRwk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/Ekji7sktRwk |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Celldweller Remix Competition Round 3 Announcement|last=Cellout TV|work=Youtube|date=August 4, 2007|accessdate=August 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}} $11,500 was spent on recording and mixing an early version (dubbed the "Detroit 2000" mix on The Beta Cessions release) which eventually got scrapped. Switchback was the last track to be recorded and mixed for the album.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CcaNnChIA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/w7CcaNnChIA |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Celldweller 10 Year Anniversary - Behind The Scenes Part IV|last=Celldweller|work=Youtube|date=May 18, 2013|accessdate=August 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}
=Music Video=
The music video was produced, edited and directed by Klayton himself and was shot on location at The High Street House. Klayton had described the "Gray Girl" as his "mirror image", stating, "she was like an alter ego or a version of me in a perverted form". A majority of the footage that was shot did not "translate" into the vision Klayton had and as a result, the original storyline for the video was scrapped and became something that Klayton "did not want", having described the video as, "a bunch of guys in a room lip syncing to the music".{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLS7Re_8HQs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/yLS7Re_8HQs |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Celldweller 10 Year Anniversary - Behind The Scenes Part V|last=Celldweller|work=Youtube|date=May 25, 2013|accessdate=August 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}
Track listing
;UK promo single
{{track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = Switchback
| note1 = Filo and Peri Remix
| length1 = 5:52
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Switchback
| note1 = Elevation Thomas Dub
| length1 = 9:10
}}
;Switchback/Own Little World Remix EP
{{track listing
| title1 = Switchback
| note1 = Klayton Revision
| length1 = 6:48
| title2 = Own Little World
| note2 = Remorse Code and Blue Stahli Remix
| length2 = 6:30
| title3 = Switchback
| note3 = Klayton Revision instrumental
| length3 = 6:48
| title4 = Own Little World
| note4 = Remorse Code and Blue Stahli Remix instrumental
| length4 = 6:30
}}
Media usage
"Switchback" is the most used Celldweller track to be used for various media, including:
- Halloween: Resurrection
- Spider-Man 2
- Doom
- Catwoman
- The Punisher
- Paycheck
- CSI
- xXx: State of the Union
- National Security
- Bad Boys 2
- Out for a Kill
- Bring It On Again
- Kart Racer
- Project Gotham Racing 3
- Enter The Matrix
- One Tree Hill
- America's Next Top Model
- Punk'd
- Dawson's Creek
- Roswell
- Access Hollywood
- Dead Rising 2, used in the boss battle against psychopath characters Reed and Roger.
- Pump It Up Pro 2
- Death Race 2
- Jaegarn 5 - Enemy of the State
- KickBeat
- World Extreme Cagefighting
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5haUDLGriEM Music video for "Switchback"]