The first year's performance in September 1999 did not include the song. įilter appeared two years in a row at popular Washington, D.C./Baltimore radio station 99.1 HFStival. Several segments include supermodel Jaime King. Internationally, 'Take a Picture' reached number three in Canada, number eight in New Zealand, number 25 in the United Kingdom and number 32 in Australia.Ī music video, directed by David Meyers, featured the band in a dreamlike sequence taking place in five different main scenes: a crashed and burning jet airplane in the middle of the ocean, underwater below it without scuba gear on, on a tiny search boat rowboat in the middle of the ocean, a room in a house being flooded by water, and on the roof of this flooding house. It was also a top-ten hit on the Adult Top 40 at number seven and a top-twenty hit on the Mainstream Top 40 at number 15, giving the band their only hit on these two charts. It became a top-five hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at number four and the Modern Rock Tracks chart at number three. The song hit number one on Billboard 's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on February 5, 2000. 'Take a Picture' reached number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on Februafter reaching the top 40 on December 14, 1999.

The song was intended as a tribute to the Was (Not Was) song 'Dad, I'm In Jail', from their album What Up, Dog?. Patrick's father was offended by this line, but Patrick explained to his father that each time he sings the line it has a different meaning because Patrick changes the tone in which he delivers the line each time it's sung. I’m thinking, 'Oh my God, what is my dad gonna think of this shit?' Y’know, 'Dad, what do you think about your son now?' So, the song is this amazing thing for me to look back on now.' Weeks later, I had another drunken experience – being on a plane and being blacked out and not feeling good and taking my shirt off, half in and out of consciousness – and I'm in the back of a paddy wagon. Do you remember that?' And I said, 'Good lord, could you take my picture, 'cuz I won't remember.' And that line just kinda stuck. 'When I wrote the chorus to 'Take a Picture' it was just after my friend was like, 'Do you remember anything you did last night?' And I was like, 'What are you talking about?' She said, 'My God, you were throwing beer bottles out of a cab window at a cop car. Patrick expanded in greater detail in a 2008 retrospective interview: Filter frontman and founding member Richard Patrick has said that the song is about him getting drunk on an airplane and taking off all of his clothes.

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