| "Someone I Used to Know" | ||||
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| Single byZac Brown Band | ||||
| from the albumThe Owl | ||||
| Released | November 9, 2018 (2018-11-09) | |||
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| Length | 3:29 | |||
| Label | BBR | |||
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"Someone I Used to Know" is a song by Americancountry music bandZac Brown Band. As a single from their sixth studio albumThe Owl. The song was written byZac Brown,Niko Moon, Ben Simonetti,Andrew Watt,Shawn Mendes and produced by Andrew Watt and Happy Perez.
The song was co-written byShawn Mendes, with whom the band got acquainted during their performance onCMT Crossroads. Zac said: "Shawn is an incredibly talented artist and it's been exciting to watch his career rise over the past few years. We've had fun collaborating together, this Crossroads will be very special with huge vocals and musicality. It will be unexpected and something that both sets of fans will enjoy."[2]
The music video was uploaded on December 21, 2018, directed by Phillip R Lopez. The video told a story about a high school football star who enlists, goes to war and returns with post-traumatic stress disorder, and it opened with a vivid sex scene and featured an interlude in which the main character and his fellow troops are attacked while on patrol. Upon his return home, he struggles with relationships, employment and his underlyingPTSD.[3]
The song has sold 90,000 copies in the United States as of October 2019.[4]
On June 5, 2019, Zac Brown Band performed the song onCMT Music Awards[5]
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