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Head Over Heels

"Head over Heels (In This Life)" is the 1st CCM-only single off of Switchfoot's sixth studio album, Oh! Gravity.. According to the All Access Music Group's official website, it was released on Sept. 4, 2007^[1] onto Christian AC Radio. It was picked up by Christian CHR and Christian Rock radio formats.

This also marks the first single to be released after Switchfoot's split with major labelColumbia/Sony BMG, although it was released by the band's resident Christian Music distributor,Sparrow Records, not by the band itself, nor its fledgling record label, Lowercase People Records. It was not impacted to mainstream radio.  (Article taken from wikipedia.org.)  There is no music video for this song.

"Dare You to Move"

Here is the "Dare You to Move" music video with behind the scenes and info (info taken from Wikipedia article.)  

Dare You to Move, written by Switchfoot singer/songwriter Jon Foreman, was originally recorded as the opening track for Switchfoot's 2000 album Learning to Breathe, and also appeared on the A Walk to Remember soundtrack, which featured several other Switchfoot songs.

Bassist Tim Foreman has remarked that upon finishing the song, all the bandmembers knew that they had really created something powerful. Jon Foreman said that "sometimes it still can move him to tears, and that he's glad it got a second chance (on the Beautiful Letdown)."^[3] The reason the band gave the song a rewrite was "that song hadn't lived its shelf life yet."^[4] In addition, "after having played it a couple years live, I feel like we've got a better grip of how we want it to be on a record," he said.^[4]

Foreman has called it "a defining song"^[4] for the band. "It's me talking to myself and I think a lot of times I feel stagnant and stuck in the same place," says Jon. "And 'Dare You to Move' is kind of a song for myself to get me up and get me moving and tackling a new part of life."^[5]

"Awakening"

Here is the "Awakening" music video with info .  The song was written during some time off between tours supporting the band's fifth record,Nothing Is Sound. "We had two or three weeks off tour in January of this last year," bassist Tim Foreman said. "We were touring in support of 'Nothing is Sound' and we had some time to go into the studio. ^[1] "We didn't really have a plan," noted Switchfoot singer/songwriter Jon Foremanabout that time in the studio. This lack of deadline pressure allowed the band to write music freely, and out of those sessions came "Awakening."

It was the first official track recorded when it came time to begin actual recording for Oh! Gravity.and was produced by Steve Lillywhite, whose credits include U2 and Dave Matthews Band. "We just love his big-picture input on the song 'Awakening.'” said Tim.

About the song itself, songwriter Jon Foreman said, "Perhaps to be truly reborn death is not optional. Here’s a firsthand story about new life, it always starts at the bottom."

A music video for this song was filmed February 28, 2007 in Toronto, one of the stops on the band's Winter/Spring Tour.^[2] Brandon Dickerson (director of You Already Take Me There and New Way to Be Human videos^[3]) directed the Awakening music video. It was released leaked, April 5 by the band's web content designer, Dale Manning on Youtube.

The official release date for the music video was Tuesday, April 10th. It premiered on the band's official Youtube account and on the website. The video is different from the band's previous videos because the video is not overtly related to the song or the meaning of the song. It is also different in the fact that the band funded the video out of their own pockets, without support from their record label.

The creation of the video also was unique in the fact that Dickerson used a never-before-used technique dubbed "paper-mation." Instead of using clay in the more common technique of "claymation," the band employed paper print-outs of their performances, and were able to achieve the effect of animation.  (Article taken from www.wikipedia.org)

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