After releasing their first single a few days ago, the already successful “Make It All Right”, the Californian band The Offspring has just released a second powerful track titled ‘Light It Up’.
There is less time left until we can enjoy “SUPERCHARGED”the new and long-awaited feature film The Offspring which will be released on October 11th through Concord Records, but before then we can already enjoy the first two singles from it. Specifically, ‘Light It Up’ has just been released, a song about which Dexter Holland himself has declared that: “This song is an unstoppable monster! The character in the song is fed up, he’s had enough, and he’s going to light it up. He’s ready to fight. And I definitely feel a lot of that around me. Growing up, some of my favorite songs were by punk bands that were just like, ‘I’m sick of your shit. I’m sick of you …
The song follows their first album release “Make It All Right” which is currently in the Top 10 on the Billboard Alternative and Mainstream Rock charts and continues to climb. In fact, last week the Californian group released the animated music video for this song, directed by Margaret Bialis. The clip presents us with an animated punk rocker dreaming about his “better half.”
Adding to their many accomplishments, the band’s classic “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” from their 2008 album “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace” has been added to Spotify’s Billions Club this week after the song reached 1 billion streams on the platform. Prior to this, “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” had already been certified Platinum in the US, UK and Gold in Spain, Poland, Italy, Germany and Denmark. Upon release, the song reached #1 on the Alternative Airplay chart (formerly Hot Modern Rock Tracks) and stayed at the top for 11 weeks, becoming the longest #1 run of any of the band’s singles. The Billions Club, which launched in 2020, lists all of the songs that have reached 1 billion streams on Spotify.
The Offspring They also released two official performance videos last week featuring a legendary guest star: Queen’s Brian May, who joined them at the Starmus Festival not only for a performance of his own song “Gone Away” but for a cover of Queen’s “Stone Cold Crazy.”
