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“Emergency Contact” by Pierce The Veil
From the album The Jaws of Life (2023)
“Emergency Contact” by Pierce The Veil appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2022 and 2023. It was first released in 2023 on the album The Jaws of Life. Its best result is #11 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2023. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #31 alternative song of 2023 and #150 of the '20s.
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"Emergency Contact" was the second taste of The Jaws of Life, Pierce The Veil's fifth studio album, arriving as a single in November 2022, and it's a love song that comes at romance from the doctor's-office clipboard. Lead singer Vic Fuentes has explained it from the stage: every kid puts a parent down as the emergency contact at the doctor's, and then came the day his wife took that spot, the person he loves most in the world. He called it a romantic moment in a morbid way, and the band built a song around it.
Fuentes wrote the words and co-wrote the music with Curtis Peoples. Paul Meany produced and engineered, Jaime Preciado engineered the lead vocals, and Adam Hawkins mixed. In August 2023 it went all the way to number one on American alternative radio.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 38 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2022 | 91 |
| 2023 | 11 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2023 | 99 |
| 2023 | 22 | 93X Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN | 93X Top 23 Songs of 2023 | 23 |
| 2023 | 11 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Music Quorum 2023 Top 50 Songs | 50 |
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