Hit That

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"Hit That"
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Template:Infobox song/link by the Offspring
from the album Splinter
B-side"Da Hui"
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GenrePop-punk[1]
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LabelColumbia
[[Songwriter|SongwriterTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Dexter Holland
[[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Brendan O'Brien[2]
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"Defy You"
(2001) 		"Hit That"
(589) 		"(Can't Get My) Head Around You"
(2004)
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"Hit That" is a song by American rock band the Offspring, included as the fourth track on the band's seventh studio album, Splinter (2003), and was released as its first single. The song also appears as the 13th track on their Greatest Hits (2005). "Hit That" was released to US rock radio on November 3, 2003.

Upon its release, "Hit That" reached the top 20 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and on the UK Singles Chart, as well as No. 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song also topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart; this was the first time an Offspring song would reach No. 1 on that chart since their breakthrough single "Come Out and Play" was released a decade earlier in 1994.

Composition

The song's lyrics, as put by Dexter Holland, are "about the consequences of promiscuity or the idea that no matter what the consequences might be, people are going to be out there doing it with each other", discussing how it results in teenage pregnancy and dysfunctional families.[3]

Holland detailed:

"It's about taking responsibility. A generation ago, people were talking about the disintegration of the family because everyone was getting divorced, and how it was taking such a terrible toll on society. Well, you look around nowadays, and it's disintegrated so much more. Joe Blow has got three different kids by three different girls and vice versa, and it's happening more and more. And ultimately the kids are the ones who suffer from that. But when you get down to it, people are gonna hook up, so there's nothing you can do about it."[4]

Music video

The music video for the song, directed by John Williams and David Lea, tried to reflect the irresponsible male of the lyrics not in a literal way, but by telling the story of a dog that turns out to be an amoral force of mayhem, and needed to be caught and neutered to stop its destructive nature.

The video combines live-action footage and computer-generated effects, with Williams and Lea playing the part of the dog's owner, a blue man lip-syncing the song's lyrics by wearing gloves and a mask, onto which digital eyes and mouth were superimposed, by creating what Williams described as "a character you can't peg as either completely real or completely computer-generated". To create the same effect on the dog, there was an attempt at making a Great Dane wear a mask, but the dog did not like it, so instead an illuminated muzzle was worn that gave reference for the eventually superimposed animated head.

A first draft had caricatures of The Offspring's members through the video, but the band denied that, wanting to avoid something resembling a typical performance video.[3]

The video appears on the Complete Music Video Collection DVD, released in 2005.

Track listing

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Personnel

The Offspring

Additional musicians

Charts

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Release history

Release dates and formats for "Hit That"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref(s).
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Japan November 19, 2003 CD Sony [14]
Australia November 24, 2003 Columbia [15]
Denmark January 12, 2004 [16]
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  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
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United States Contemporary hit radio [18]

References

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  4. ^ Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Snatched By Offspring
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top Lista Hrvatskog Radija". Croatian Radiotelevision. Archived from the original on February 5, 2004. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
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  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eurocharts" (PDF). Billboard. February 7, 2004. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
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  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Year in Music & Touring: Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 116, no. 52. December 25, 2004. p. YE-70.
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  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ヒット!ザット | オフスプリング" [Hit! That | Offspring] (in 日本語). Oricon. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 24th November 2003" (PDF). ARIA. November 24, 2003. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2008. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Uge 1–7" [Week 1–7] (PDF) (in dansk). Sony Music Denmark. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 22, 2004. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Releases: Singles". Music Week. January 17, 2004. p. 33.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1538. January 16, 2004. p. 24.

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