“Anna Sun” by Walk The Moon

song info

    “Anna Sun” by Walk The Moon (official video) is an alternative rock song.

    
    Rock: peak #20, 2012
    Alternative: peak #10 (ten), 2012
     Billboard chart listings courtesy of Billboard Magazine

link to the static song information page for this song:
http://www.thissideofsanity.com/music/songs/an/annasun.php

    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

        Walk the Moon (stylized as WALK THE MOON) is an indie rock band based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lead singer and Ohio native Nicholas Petricca started the band in 2008 and went through several member changes before finally coming together with current members, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, and Eli Maiman sometime in 2010. The band derives their name from the song “Walking on the Moon” by The Police. The group independently released their debut album, i want! i want!, in November 2010, receiving airplay for the track “Anna Sun” on WCRD, WFPK, WKNH, and WTMD. In February 2011, Walk the Moon signed with Mick Management. They signed to RCA Records and released their first official album, Walk the Moon in June 2012. Their self-titled debut is composed of many of their original tracks from i want! i want! in addition to new tracks that were written specifically for the album and were meant to reflect the kind of energy the band produced in their live shows.

    SPIN Magazine has described them as a “poppy, art-rock quartet”. They were also deemed a Nylon Magazine Band Crush for their “swirly pop beats, infectious guitar riffs, and loud, sing-a-long choruses.”

“Anna Sun”

    “Anna Sun” was named the song of the summer in a 2011 Esquire article “30 Summer Songs Every Man Should Listen To”. Written by Petricca and New York singer/songwriter Nick Lerangis towards the end of their college career, the song is named after their professor from Kenyon College and is meant to symbolize youth. “It’s about college, about maintaining that little bit of being a kid,” Petricca said. “Don’t be afraid to play.”

    The “Anna Sun” official music video was released to coincide with the debut of i want! i want! in November 2010.

    MTV Hive calls the video a “hilariously choreographed, neon-colored and awesomely shot in one take” production. The video was produced by a local Cincinnati company, Contrast Productions, and features original choreography from Kim Popa of PONES Inc., as well as a cast full of the band’s friends.

    “Anna Sun” was added to the video rotation of American Eagle Outfitters stores in May 2011. It was featured on the hit TV show Vampire Diaries in the first episode of season three. It was also the free single of the week on iTunes for the week of May 15. It has also been named song of the summer by MTV and Seventeen Mag as well as one of the top songs of the year by Amazon. It has been officially remixed by Fool’s Gold and by Trouble Productions. It also rose to the number one spot on Alt. Nation on Sirius XM Radio. Along with the success of Anna Sun, Alt. Nation has named them a band you need to know for the Summer of 2012.

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Proverb:

If you call a piece of wood “child”, you can never use it to light fire, since it has become so precious. —Rwandan Proverb