Days Go By (Dirty Vegas song)

"Days Go By"
Single by Dirty Vegas
from the album Dirty Vegas
Released7 May 2001 (2001-05-07)
GenreHouse[1]
Length
  • 7:07 (album version)
  • 3:41 (single edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Victoria Horn
  • Steve Smith
Producer(s)Dirty Vegas
Dirty Vegas singles chronology
"Days Go By"
(2001) 		"Ghosts"
(2002)
Music video
"Days Go By" on YouTube

"Days Go By" is the debut single of British electronic group Dirty Vegas, released in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2001 as the lead single from their self-titled debut album (2002). The song initially peaked at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart the same month. The single's artwork was done by American artist Richard Phillips.[2]

In mid-2002, "Days Go By" became a US radio hit following its usage in a television advertisement for the 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse, eventually peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and receiving the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2003.[3] In the wake of its success in the US, it re-entered and peaked at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, topped the UK Dance Singles Chart, and reached number six in Canada.

Music video

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Early one morning, a man is wearing a business suit and a well-worn pair of orange high-top Chuck Taylor All-Stars trainers. He lays out a cardboard mat in front of a restaurant, turns on a boombox, and starts a routine of popping, locking, and doing the robot to the music.

A few people stop to watch. As they do, the man is replaced by a younger version of himself wearing a tracksuit and brand-new orange Chucks, and he begins breakdancing to the music. One of the spectators tells the story: one day each year, the man comes to the restaurant and dances on the pavement from sunrise to sunset. He does so in the hope of bringing back a lost girlfriend, who gave him the orange trainers as a present when they were young but who ultimately left him because he "couldn't stop." (What he couldn't stop is left ambiguous.) The music pauses briefly while a few spectators voice their thoughts about the young woman's fate. At the end of the day, two of them leave to get a cup of coffee together. The man in the business suit catches a brief glimpse of his girlfriend's younger self, then he picks up his belongings and leaves.

The video was filmed at Chroni's Famous Sandwich Shop in East Los Angeles, California. Garland Spencer and Byron McIntyre portrayed the dancer's younger and older selves, respectively.

There are two versions of the music video; one has the three band members observing from a table at the restaurant, while the other replaces those shots with footage of them in a silver Mitsubishi Eclipse stopped at a traffic light. In addition to the replaced shots, the Eclipse version of the video includes footage of the car arriving at and departing from a traffic light, suggesting that they arrived in the morning and remained at the light all day to watch the man dance.

Mitsubishi Eclipse advert

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A Mitsubishi executive saw the music video for "Days Go By" in a hotel room, and personally tracked the group down to procure rights to feature the song in an advertisement.[4] The song was licensed to be used in the Mitsubishi ad, which began airing in early 2002. A New York radio station began playing the song,[5] which was subsequently released to rhythmic and top 40 radio stations in mid-2002.[5] American brand awareness for Mitsubishi went from 44% to 60% following the use of the song in the commercial.[6]

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The song was used in a promo for the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. It parodied the music video and showed the host, Jimmy Fallon as the only dancer in the video.

The Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial was parodied by a skit on Chappelle's Show in which Dave Chappelle is driving a car and the woman is dancing in the passenger seat. Dave says, "What the fuck are you doing?" (due to the weird moves she is making) and then leaves her by the side of the road. He then puts on some hip-hop music and a black woman sits in the passenger seat and starts dancing. Although this is a parody of the Eclipse commercial, the car actually used in the commercial was Dave's own Nissan 350Z.

The song is featured in the rhythm game DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix.

This song also appears in the game Dance Central for the Kinect peripheral on the Xbox 360. The routine performed is similar to the one in the music video.

This song was also included in Grand Theft Auto V on the radio station Non Stop Pop FM, exclusive to those who bought the game on eighth generation consoles.

Track listings

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Original release

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Re-release

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Charts

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Release history

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Release dates and formats for "Days Go By"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom 7 May 2001
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
[46]
Spain July 2001
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
 Vendetta [47]
Australia 23 July 2001 CD
  • EMI
  • Credence
  • Parlophone
 [48]
Various 23 April 2002 One-track digital download New State Music [14]
United States 13 May 2002 Radio
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20 May 2002 Hot adult contemporary radio [50]
Australia (re-release) 12 August 2002 CD
  • EMI
  • Credence
  • Parlophone
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United Kingdom (re-release) 30 September 2002
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • Credence
  • Parlophone
 [52]
Various 23 February 2003 Three-track digital download New State Music [15]

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