Be Yourself (Audioslave song)
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| Single by Audioslave | ||||||||
| from the album Out of Exile | ||||||||
| Released | February 2, 2005 | |||||||
| Format | CD, Cassette, Vinyl | |||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||||||
| Length | 4:39 | |||||||
| Label | Interscope | |||||||
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Lyrics: Chris Cornell Music: Audioslave |
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| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||||||
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"Be Yourself" is the first single by Audioslave for their second album Out of Exile. It was released in 2005. The song topped the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks and the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks in 2005.
Next to "Like a Stone", it is considered the band's most well known song, and is still played on radio stations worldwide.
It is the theme of the 2005 Raw Diva Search which was held by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and was used as the entrance music of the winner of that contest, Ashley Massaro. WWE once again used it as one of the official theme songs to Wrestlemania XXVI. It was also used in the Scrubs season six premiere episode "My Mirror Image". "Be Yourself" along with "Your Time Has Come" appeared in the documentary Warren Miller's: Higher Ground. New York Mets' outfielder Shawn Green also used the song before his at-bats at games in 2006.
There was a contest held by Contactmusic.com in which fans of the band could submit their pictures, over two dozen of which were selected and featured on the 7" vinyl release of the single.
The lyrics were inspired by events from frontman Chris Cornell's own life. "The 'be yourself' part really just came from a lot of things that I've gone through in my life and a lot of different changes and all the different tragedies and all the horrendously stupid mistakes I've made in my personal life, and wanting to be able to make up for those things and wanting to be able to not be ashamed, all that stuff," he explained. "You know, that's the one thing about getting older that's better, and this song kinda says it so simply, to a degree that 10 years ago I would've been embarrassed to put it in a song 'cause it is so simple. But there it is."
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