Song · Cage The Elephant
“Trouble” by Cage The Elephant
From the album Tell Me I’m Pretty (2015)
“Trouble” by Cage The Elephant appears on 19 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2016 and 2026. It was first released in 2015 on the album Tell Me I’m Pretty. Its best result is #2 on the WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #16 alternative song of 2016, #3,467 alternative song of all time and #175 of the '10s.
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"Trouble" was the second single from Tell Me I'm Pretty, Cage the Elephant's fourth album, and it came out on April 26, 2016. Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys produced and co-wrote it, and it went all the way to number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, the band's seventh time at the top.
Matt Shultz said the song deals with honesty, adversity and struggle, and it grew from a conversation with someone close to him in which he felt himself holding back and polishing his image, and began wondering whether the other person was doing the same. The music matches that uneasy mood: Shultz's acoustic guitar, Brad Shultz and Nick Bockrath's guitars and Matthan Minster's keys wrap it all in a hazy, psychedelic-folk shimmer. The video pairs a western duel gone delusional with the band playing out in the desert.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2016 | 91 |
| 2016 | 7 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2016 | 103 |
| 2016 | 9 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016 | 99 |
| 2016 | 5 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
| 2016 | 17 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2016 | 107 |
| 2016 | 3 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 | 101 |
| 2016 | 7 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
| 2016 | 60 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2016 | 89 |
| 2016 | 48 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2016 | 88 |
| 2016 | 14 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2016 | 103 |
| 2016 | 2 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2016 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 89 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2019 | 70 | ALT 98.7 | ALT 98.7 Top 98 ALT Songs of the Decade | 98 |
| 2020 | 31 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of Last Decade (2010s) | 107 |
| 2020 | 44 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2020 | 62 | X96 | X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade | 100 |
| 2020 | 354 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2022 | 149 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2026 | 212 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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