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Tighten Up
The Black Keys
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- Album
- Alternative Spirit
- Released
- 2016
- Genres
- blues rock, garage rock, modern blues, rock
- Length
- 3:30
- Tempo
- 109 BPM
- Label
- [PIAS]
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About this song
With its whistling and bluesy vocals and riffs, the song became the Black Keys' first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the Alternative Songs and Rock Songs charts. At the 53rd Grammy Awards it won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group and was nominated for Best Rock Song. Rolling Stone included it on its list of the 15 Best Whistling Songs of All Time, and it has been used in Gossip Girl and a Subaru commercial.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 3 other songs, like “Tighten Up by Hoodie Allen”.
- Covered 4 times, including “Tighten Up by Jack and White”.
- Written by Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach.
- Produced by Danger Mouse.
- Recorded at The Bunker Studio.