“Under You” by Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters cut "Under You" for But Here We Are, their eleventh studio album, in the wake of drummer Taylor Hawkins' death, and it rushes along with the sunny power-pop lift of "Learn to Fly" until you catch what Dave Grohl is singing about: a man half-smothered by grief for someone he's lost. Grohl plays the drums himself here, adds guitar alongside Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear, and sings lead; Nate Mendel plays bass, Rami Jaffee keys, and Greg Kurstin produced with the band before Mark "Spike" Stent mixed it.

Sent out as the album's second single in 2023, it gave the band a 16th top ten on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, a record for that chart, and soon sat at number one on Rock & Alternative Airplay, Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock all at once. Rolling Stone ranked it among the year's 100 best songs.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.