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This Is for Real (song)

"This Is for Real"
Motion City Soundtrack - This Is for Real cover.jpg
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
"Broken Heart"
(2007)
"This Is for Real"
(2007)
"It Had to Be You"
(2008)

"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.


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