Kerosene

About this song

Kerosene was released as the lead single from The Warning's fifth studio album, Everything's Falling, and was one of the first songs written for the album. The band originally titled it Gasoline, but changed it to Kerosene because they felt the first name was too on the nose and the new one sounded cooler. The playful music video, directed by Iván Chávez, shows the band driving a stolen muscle car through the desert and setting it ablaze, and the band created a TikTok dance trend for the song's bridge that they perform in the video. The song topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, making The Warning the first all-female band and the first Mexican band to reach number one on that chart.

What it's about

The band wrote the song as a fun rock track from the perspective of a bratty character, embracing femininity, and likened it to the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls.

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Fun facts

• Written by Anton DeLost, Daniela Villarreal, Paulina Villarreal, Alejandra Villarreal and Niko Rubio.
• Produced by Anton DeLost.