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Don't Stop (Innerpartysystem song)

"Don't Stop"
Don't Stop - Single Cover.jpg
Single by Innerpartysystem
from the album Innerpartysystem
B-side "Redemption"
"Transmission" (cover)
Released June 30, 2008
Format CD
Vinyl
Digital Download
Recorded Los Angeles, California
Reading, Pennsylvania in 2008
Genre Industrial music
Length 4:22
Label Stolen Transmission
Songwriter(s) Innerpartysystem
Producer(s) Mark Needham
Innerpartysystem
Innerpartysystem singles chronology
"Don't Stop"
(2008)
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"Don't Stop" "Die Tonight Live Forever"
Re-Release Cover
2009 Re-Release Cover
2009 Re-Release Cover

"Don't Stop" is the debut single by the American band Innerpartysystem from the band's self-titled debut album. Before being mastered the song was officially released on the band's debut EP (although an earlier demo had been published on the bands MySpace profile beforehand). The single was re-released mainly due to poor endorsement by American music channels.

The lyrics of the song focus on celebrity culture and lies within the media and celebrities. The lyrics are sung in first person as a celebrity who may have no specific talent or is famous purely because of his/her wealth (famous for being famous) and this person is only interested in the attention to which a celebrity may receive, in the song these people are perceived as liars. The song portrays these celebrities as the public's entertainment and the public wrongly feed these celebrities with their attention.

The physical platforms of the single were only released in the United Kingdom.

The single peaked at #35 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks in 2008

The music video for "Don't Stop" was directed and produced by Stephen Penta for White Light Productions. It features a male and a female news reporter who both lip sync the songs lyrics at various times throughout the video. The video in most parts was edited with analog tape distortion from a CRT television effects giving the video a rough and rigid look. Throughout the video the band members are seen lip syncing the lyrics (mainly the vocalist Patrick) as well as shots from a live performance.

Jared Piccone on the filming of the video:

We made this video with our manager Penta, who's made all of our videos up until now, for almost no budget back when we were on [the] Stolen Transmission [record label], the band footage is in our basement and the white band footage was shot against a white wall in our kitchen with a camcorder. All the newsroom footage was shot in BCTV, our local public access news station. We talked them into letting us use the studio on an off day.


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