Life Is a Highway: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
VisualWikitext
 
imported>BrDen
No edit summary
 
Line 226: Line 226:
}}
}}


In 2005, American [[country music]] band [[Rascal Flatts]] recorded a cover of the song for the [[Pixar]] animated film ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'', which was released on June 9, 2006. The song sold a large quantity of digital downloads, leading to a number seven peak on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] (one position lower than Cochrane's original version). In addition, the cover was placed as a [[bonus track]] on later versions of the album ''[[Me and My Gang]]'', and also was included on ''[[Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Rascal Flatts album)|Greatest Hits Volume 1]]'' (2008) and ''[[Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits]]'' (2020). This version also won the "Favorite Song from a Movie" and "Favorite Remake" awards at the [[33rd People's Choice Awards]]. Rascal Flatts re-recorded the song with [[Lzzy Hale]] on their 2025 album ''[[Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Daykin|first1=James|title=Review: Rascal Flatts re-invent & re-imagine on new album 'Life is a Highway – Refueled'|url=https://entertainment-focus.com/2025/06/06/review-rascal-flatts-re-invent-re-imagine-on-new-album-life-is-a-highway-refueled/#google_vignette |website=Entertainment Focus |access-date=June 17, 2025 |date=June 6, 2025}}</ref>
In 2005, American [[country music]] band [[Rascal Flatts]] recorded a cover of the song for the [[Pixar]] animated film ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'', which was released on June 9, 2006. The song sold a large quantity of digital downloads, leading to a number seven peak on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] (one position lower than Cochrane's original version). In addition, the cover was placed as a [[bonus track]] on later versions of the album ''[[Me and My Gang]]'', and also was included on ''[[Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Rascal Flatts album)|Greatest Hits Volume 1]]'' (2008) and ''[[Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits]]'' (2020). This version also won the "Favorite Song from a Movie" and "Favorite Remake" awards at the [[33rd People's Choice Awards]]. Rascal Flatts re-recorded the song with [[Lzzy Hale]] on their 2025 album ''[[Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Daykin|first1=James|title=Review: Rascal Flatts re-invent & re-imagine on new album 'Life is a Highway – Refueled'|url=https://entertainment-focus.com/2025/06/06/review-rascal-flatts-re-invent-re-imagine-on-new-album-life-is-a-highway-refueled/#google_vignette |website=Entertainment Focus |access-date=June 17, 2025 |date=June 6, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale featured on new version of ‘Life Is a Highway’ with Rascal Flatts |url=https://www.1057thepoint.com/music-news/halestorms-lzzy-hale-featured-on-new-version-of-life-is-a-highway-with-rascal-flatts/ |website=www.1057thepoint.com}}</ref>


The instrumental of the Rascal Flatts' cover version was prominently featured in the ''[[Top Gear: US Special]]'', which aired February 11, 2007. The song is included on the soundtrack for ''[[Cars Mater-National Championship]]'' and ''[[Lego Rock Band]]''. It topped the two million mark in paid downloads as of the chart dated March 28, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-march-15-2009-the-idol-with-the-most.html |title=Week Ending March 15, 2009: The Idol With The Most |work=Chart Watch |access-date=August 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927215428/http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-march-15-2009-the-idol-with-the-most.html |archive-date=September 27, 2013 }}</ref> As of March 2013, the song has sold over three million copies in the US.<ref name="yahoo march 2013">{{cite web| url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-march-17-2013-songs-great-chart-220437064.html | title=Week Ending March 17, 2013. Songs: The Great Chart Robbery Of 2013 | publisher=[[Yahoo! News|Yahoo News Chart Watch]] | access-date=March 21, 2013 |date=March 20, 2013 |last=Grein |first=Paul}}</ref> On July 14, 2015, [[Scott Walker (politician)|Scott Walker]], Republican [[Governor of Wisconsin]], launched his presidential campaign as Republican Party nominee in Waukesha, Wisconsin using the song. On December 8, 2020, [[Harmonix]] announced that the cover would be featured on the video game [[Fuser (video game)|''FUSER'']], as a [[Downloadable content|DLC]] on December 10, 2020. The song is also featured in video games such as ''[[Rocket League]]''.
The instrumental of the Rascal Flatts' cover version was prominently featured in the ''[[Top Gear: US Special]]'', which aired February 11, 2007. The song is included on the soundtrack for ''[[Cars Mater-National Championship]]'' and ''[[Lego Rock Band]]''. It topped the two million mark in paid downloads as of the chart dated March 28, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-march-15-2009-the-idol-with-the-most.html |title=Week Ending March 15, 2009: The Idol With The Most |work=Chart Watch |access-date=August 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927215428/http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-march-15-2009-the-idol-with-the-most.html |archive-date=September 27, 2013 }}</ref> As of March 2013, the song has sold over three million copies in the US.<ref name="yahoo march 2013">{{cite web| url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-march-17-2013-songs-great-chart-220437064.html | title=Week Ending March 17, 2013. Songs: The Great Chart Robbery Of 2013 | publisher=[[Yahoo! News|Yahoo News Chart Watch]] | access-date=March 21, 2013 |date=March 20, 2013 |last=Grein |first=Paul}}</ref> On July 14, 2015, [[Scott Walker (politician)|Scott Walker]], Republican [[Governor of Wisconsin]], launched his presidential campaign as Republican Party nominee in Waukesha, Wisconsin using the song. On December 8, 2020, [[Harmonix]] announced that the cover would be featured on the video game [[Fuser (video game)|''FUSER'']], as a [[Downloadable content|DLC]] on December 10, 2020. The song is also featured in video games such as ''[[Rocket League]]''.
Line 276: Line 276:
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|type=single|artist=Rascal Flatts|title=Life Is a Highway|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2006|certyear=2023|source=radioscope|access-date=January 27, 2025}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|type=single|artist=Rascal Flatts|title=Life Is a Highway|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2006|certyear=2023|source=radioscope|access-date=January 27, 2025}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Rascal Flatts|title=Life Is a Highway|award=Platinum|relyear=2006|certyear=2022|id=15045-4704-1|access-date=May 13, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Rascal Flatts|title=Life Is a Highway|award=Platinum|relyear=2006|certyear=2022|id=15045-4704-1|access-date=May 13, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Rascal Flatts|title=Life Is a Highway|award=Platinum|relyear=2006|number=7|certyear=2024|access-date=December 23, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Rascal Flatts|title=Life Is a Highway|award=Platinum|relyear=2006|number=8|certyear=2025|access-date=June 30, 2025}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|noshipments=true|streaming=true|nosales=true}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|noshipments=true|streaming=true|nosales=true}}


Latest revision as of 00:05, 1 July 2025

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other "Life Is a Highway" is a song by Canadian musician Tom Cochrane from his second studio album, Mad Mad World (1991). The song became a number-one hit in Canada in late 1991. "Life Is a Highway" also peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1992 and reached the top two in Australia and New Zealand the same year. The song was covered by Chris LeDoux for his 1998 album One Road Man and Rascal Flatts in 2006 for the Cars soundtrack.

Background and release

Cochrane has stated that "Life Is a Highway" was originally conceived in the 1970s as "Love Is a Highway" while he was still a member of Red Rider, but was shelved at that time because he felt the unfinished song was unusable.[1] Following a trip with his family to eastern Africa with the World Vision famine relief organization, Cochrane revisited the song on the advice of his friend John Webster, an instrumentalist on the Mad Mad World album. In a 2017 interview with The Canadian Press to mark the song's 25th anniversary, Cochrane said Webster encouraged him to revisit the demo recording, which at that point only had mumbled vocals and improvised lyrics, but not the song's well-known chorus. "(The song) became a pep talk to myself... saying you can't really control all of this stuff, you just do the best you can," he says.[1] Cochrane says he was trying to make sense of the poverty he witnessed on his trip, which he found "shocking and traumatic".

Eventually, the original demo version was released on the 25th-anniversary reissue of Mad Mad World under the original title "Love Is a Highway". He later said the up-tempo spirit of the song came from looking for something positive to "hang the experience on."[1] Most of the vocals on the track were recorded in Cochrane's small home studio.[1] The song was Cochrane's only top-40 hit in the United States, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] In Canada, the song stayed at number one for two weeks, and three other singles from the album charted within the top 10; "No Regrets" peaked at number three,[3] "Sinking Like a Sunset" reached number two,[4] and "Washed Away" climbed to number seven.[5] In Australia and New Zealand, the single peaked at number two in both countries.[6][7] Elsewhere, it became a top-40 hit in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.[8][9][10]

Music video

The video for "Life Is a Highway" was directed by David Storey and produced by Albert Botha. The video was shot in Alberta's Badlands, near the town of Drumheller. Many of the shots are in familiar locations along the Dinosaur Trail, including Cochrane playing guitar amid the Hoodoos and the couple, Kait Shane and Brennan Elliott, running around the car while it rides the Bleriot Ferry across the Red Deer River. It also features an older man (gas station attendant), a couple (tall man, short wife), two women (Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins) from an Anabaptist religious order (Alberta has a population of Hutterites), and two First Nations men, one wearing a baseball cap with the words "Oka Standoff" printed on it, referring to the Oka Crisis (a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec). The car featured in the music video is a 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport.

Track listings

7-inch, cassette, and mini-CD single[11][12][13]

  1. "Life Is a Highway" – 4:24
  2. "Emotional Truth" – 5:59

UK CD single[14]

  1. "Life Is a Highway" – 4:24
  2. "Emotional Truth" – 5:59
  3. "Get Back Up" – 4:39

European maxi-CD single[15]

  1. "Life Is a Highway" – 4:24
  2. "Emotional Truth" – 5:59
  3. "Lunatic Fringe" (live) – 5:00

Charts

<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>

Certifications

Template:Certification Table Top Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Bottom

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Canada September 20, 1991 — Capitol Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
United States April 6, 1992 Cassette [23]
United Kingdom June 15, 1992 Template:Hlist [24]
Japan August 5, 1992 Mini-CD [25]

Chris LeDoux version

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other In 1998, Chris LeDoux covered "Life Is a Highway" for his album One Road Man. Changes include the intro, timing of vocal entrances on the chorus, and location names between the first and second chorus. LeDoux's version was released as a single the following year and peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart during the week of June 12, 1999, and remained at the spot for nine weeks.

Music video

The music video for the song, directed by Michael Salomon, takes place on multiple roads and highways as well as a blue and red static themed room. When on roads and highways, there is a chance for LeDoux to appear on a television that is sitting on a sidewalk or grass, however, while the background behind LeDoux (that appears on the TV) is the same background as everything behind the TV itself, LeDoux does not appear to be standing behind the TV. In most locations, LeDoux is walking down a road as at the start of the music video. The video ends with LeDoux singing the chorus while appearing on a flap-down TV inside of someone's car, then transitioning to LeDoux being once again in the static room and then walking out of it. After LeDoux leaves the room, the screen slowly fades to black and the video ends.

Charts

Template:Single chart
Chart (1999) Peak
position

Rascal Flatts version

Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other

In 2005, American country music band Rascal Flatts recorded a cover of the song for the Pixar animated film Cars, which was released on June 9, 2006. The song sold a large quantity of digital downloads, leading to a number seven peak on the Billboard Hot 100 (one position lower than Cochrane's original version). In addition, the cover was placed as a bonus track on later versions of the album Me and My Gang, and also was included on Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2008) and Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits (2020). This version also won the "Favorite Song from a Movie" and "Favorite Remake" awards at the 33rd People's Choice Awards. Rascal Flatts re-recorded the song with Lzzy Hale on their 2025 album Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets.[26][27]

The instrumental of the Rascal Flatts' cover version was prominently featured in the Top Gear: US Special, which aired February 11, 2007. The song is included on the soundtrack for Cars Mater-National Championship and Lego Rock Band. It topped the two million mark in paid downloads as of the chart dated March 28, 2009.[28] As of March 2013, the song has sold over three million copies in the US.[29] On July 14, 2015, Scott Walker, Republican Governor of Wisconsin, launched his presidential campaign as Republican Party nominee in Waukesha, Wisconsin using the song. On December 8, 2020, Harmonix announced that the cover would be featured on the video game FUSER, as a DLC on December 10, 2020. The song is also featured in video games such as Rocket League.

Music video

The music video portrays the three band members pulling into a drive-in theater driving three vintage vehicles. The cars allude to three characters from Cars: Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson and Mater. As the projector rolls, scenes from the film are shown as the band plays through the number. It was directed by Shaun Silva.

Charts

The Rascal Flatts version subsequently became a hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number seven. Even though it was not officially released to country radio, many country stations played the song as an album cut, overlapping with their then-current country single "My Wish". The unsolicited country airplay brought "Life Is a Highway" to number 18 on the US Hot Country Songs chart. The song has sold 3.4 million copies in the US as of June 2016.[30]

<templatestyles src="Col-begin/styles.css"/>

Certifications

Template:Certification Table Top Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Entry Template:Certification Table Bottom

References

Template:Reflist

External links

Template:Tom Cochrane Template:Chris LeDoux Template:Rascal Flatts singles Template:Pixar music Template:Cars (film) Template:Authority control

  1. ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named hot100
  3. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  4. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  5. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named aus
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named nz
  8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ger
  9. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named d40
  10. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named swe
  11. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  13. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  14. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  15. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  16. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  17. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  18. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  19. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  20. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  21. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  22. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  23. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named riaa
  24. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  25. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  26. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  27. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  28. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  29. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  30. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  31. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  32. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Life_Is_a_Highway&oldid=2045280"