"This Is for Real" | ||||
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Single by Motion City Soundtrack | ||||
from the album Even if it Kills Me | ||||
Released | August 7, 2007 | |||
Format | CD, 7" | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
Genre | Pop punk | |||
Length | 3:10 | |||
Label | Epitaph | |||
Writer(s) | Joshua Cain, Jesse Johnson, Matthew Taylor, Tony Thaxton, Justin Pierre | |||
Motion City Soundtrack singles chronology | ||||
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"This Is for Real" is a song by the pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack. It is the second single off their third studio album, Even If It Kills Me. It was digitally released on August 7, 2007, and physically released on September 3, 2007 in the United Kingdom. The song impacted radio on September 25, 2007.
The music video, directed by Jay Martin, features the band playing in a bowling alley. In addition to performing the song as Motion City Soundtrack, each band member, except for Pierre, plays as a different character that appears in the video. Johnson plays an old man, Taylor plays a Boy Scout, Cain plays a biker, and Thaxton plays as a man with an '80s style mullet. The video was officially released by the band on September 10, 2007, on mtvU.com.