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“Tongue Tied” by Grouplove
From the album Never Trust a Happy Song (2011)
“Tongue Tied” by Grouplove appears on 41 radio countdowns from 28 stations between 2011 and 2026. It was first released in 2011 on the album Never Trust a Happy Song. Its best result is #4 on the CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #15 alternative song of 2012, #2,407 alternative song of all time and #51 of the '10s.
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"Tongue Tied" went out on September 2, 2011, the second single from Grouplove's debut album, Never Trust a Happy Song, and it's a sugar rush of a record: synth-glazed, shouted from the rafters, built to make a festival field jump in unison. The writing credit is split five ways, and Ryan Rabin produced, engineered and recorded it himself.
An iPod Touch commercial gave it an early push, and by June 2012 it had climbed to the top of Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, the band's first number one. Glee covered it, films and games from The Three Stooges to Rock Band 4 borrowed it, and while some critics grumbled that the synths were laid on too thick and the formula showed, it remains the only Grouplove song to crack the Hot 100.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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