"Different Colors" | ||||
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Single by Walk the Moon | ||||
from the album Talking Is Hard | ||||
Released | May 5, 2015 | |||
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Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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Producer(s) | Tim Pagnotta | |||
Walk the Moon singles chronology | ||||
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"Different Colors" is a song written and recorded by American alternative rock band Walk the Moon for their third studio album, Talking Is Hard (2014). The song was released to alternative radio stations as the album's second single on May 5, 2015.
"Different Colors" has so far peaked at number seven on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, making it Walk the Moon's third top ten hit on the chart.
A lyrics music video for "Different Colors" was filmed in the band's hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. City landmarks featured in the video include Eden Park, the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, the Ohio River, Cincinnati Union Terminal, and Sawyer Point Park & Yeatman's Cove. This is Walk the Moon's second video to be filmed in Cincinnati, after "Anna Sun" in 2012.
The official music video, featuring scenes and footage from the band's spring tour, was released on June 11, 2015. Filmed at Bogart's in Cincinnati, Terminal 5 and Radio 104.5 birthday show at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ.
The band performed "Different Colors" along with "Shut Up and Dance" at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards pre-show on August 30, 2015.
Beginning in June 2015, "Different Colors" was featured in several television commercials for Pop Open Music, the summer music program of Pepsi. Walk the Moon had signed on as one of the first bands to partner with Pepsi on the project. Feel the Music Additionally, 'Different Colors' was also featured in short video AT&T Feel The Music campaign, a social project designed to improve music assess to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.