Song · Papa Roach
“American Dreams” by Papa Roach
From the album Crooked Teeth (2017)
“American Dreams” by Papa Roach appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2017. It was first released in 2017 on the album Crooked Teeth. Its best result is #5 on the 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #12 hard rock song of 2017 and #43 of the '10s.
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"American Dreams" is Papa Roach reaching back to move forward: a 2017 single from Crooked Teeth, on Eleven Seven Music, where the band and producers Nicholas Furlong and Colin Brittain set out to fuse the nu metal of their major-label debut, Infest, with a more modern sound. It opens on one simple guitar chord, then Jerry Horton's guitars stack into a wall and Jacoby Shaddix storms in. Shaddix wrote it with Anthony Esperance and Furlong.
The band leaned hard on visuals: a lyric video flashed the American flag and images of war across a static-filled TV, and the August video had them quizzing Americans in a school, a barbershop, a boxing gym and a tattoo parlor about how hard the American Dream is to reach. It went to three on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 19 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2017 | 30 |
| 2017 | 5 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2017 | 11 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
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