You Might Think

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"You Might Think"
Single by the Cars
from the album Heartbeat City
B-side
ReleasedFebruary 1984
Recorded1983–1984
StudioBattery, London
Genre
Length3:04
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)Ric Ocasek
Producer(s)
The Cars singles chronology
"Think It Over"
(1982) 		"You Might Think"
(1984) 		"
Magic
"
(1984)
Music video
"You Might Think" on
YouTube

"You Might Think" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984). The track was written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Mutt Lange and the Cars, with Ocasek also providing the lead vocals.

The song was released in February 1984, as the first single from Heartbeat City. "You Might Think" peaked at number seven in the United States and number eight in Canada. It also reached number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US, the band's first song to do so. In the United Kingdom, the song reached number 88. It was featured heavily, and served as a plot device, in the 2016 American television series BrainDead and the Season 4 episode "Do or Diaper" from Regular Show.

Music video

The song's music video features early computer graphics.

The music video is one of the first to use computer graphics. The video features Ocasek and model Susan Gallagher in a series of quirky encounters.[3] Ocasek appears in her bathroom mirror, inside a large periscope that pops up in her bathtub, in her mouth, as a fly, as King Kong on top of the Empire State Building and as the Robot Monster, among other incarnations. The rest of the band appears together and separately throughout the video; after they all appear in the movie-theater scene, keyboardist Greg Hawkes plays the dentist in the scene in which Ocasek is jackhammering a tooth in the girl's mouth. In the King Kong scene, the other three members, guitarist Elliot Easton, bassist Benjamin Orr and drummer David Robinson, are paired off in the two planes flying around Ocasek.

An alternate video omits the ending where Ric Ocasek "removes" his face, a gush of water with various artifacts from the video streams out from where his face was, and the fly version of Ocasek flys into the screen and spatters green fly guts into the words "The End". Instead, in the alternate version, his face remains in place and he continues to lip-synch to the lyrics.

"You Might Think" won the first MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for five more awards (Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Viewer's Choice, Best Concept Video and Most Experimental Video) at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards. The video also won five awards (Best Video, Best Conceptual, Most Innovative, Best Editing and Best Special Effects) at Billboard's 1984 Video Music Awards and four awards (Best Achievement In Music Video, Best Editing In Music Video, Best Engineering In Music Video and Best Camerawork In Music Video) at the Videotape Production Association's 1985 Monitor Awards.[4][5]

Robin Sloane of

Danny Ducovny the cinematographer and Bob Ryzner the art director.[6][7] The video cost $80,000 to produce, which was almost triple the average music-video budget of the time.[8]

Track listings

  • 7-inch single
A. "You Might Think" – 3:04
B. "Heartbeat City" – 4:30
  • 12-inch single
A. "You Might Think" – 3:04
B1. "Let's Go" – 3:33
B2. "I Refuse" – 3:16

Credits and personnel

Charts

Weezer version

"You Might Think"
Lyric sheet
Song by Weezer
from the album Cars 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
ReleasedJune 14, 2011
GenrePop rock
Length3:07
LabelWalt Disney
Songwriter(s)Ric Ocasek
Producer(s)
Music video
"You Might Think" on
YouTube

In 2011, American rock band

Mater go to Japan, which is great for us because it sort of mirrors our experiences in Japan – there was a little bit of culture shock!".[24] The cover was released as the opening track on the same day and a music video was released to the band's Vevo channel on June 21, three days before the film, featuring the band recording the song, scenes from the film, people working on the film, and the band in Japan, and was directed by Tim Wilkerson.[25][26] This version was co-produced by the band and Shawn Everett. Weezer bassist Scott Shriner performed the song with the Cars on their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2018,[27][28] which was Ocasek's final performance until his death the following year.[29] Weezer's version charted at number 8 on the Mexico Ingles Airplay.[30]

References

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