Recorded 2008 – 2009 | Label Virgin | |
Released June 22, 2010 (Official Release) Genre Alternative rock, post-grunge Length 3:29 (album version)
3:21 (radio edit) Writer(s) Shimon Moore, Marti Frederiksen, Emma Anzai | ||
"Maybe" is the third single from Sick Puppies' third album Tri-Polar, which impacted rock radio on June 22, 2010. A remix version was made for pop radio stations, and the official music video.
Contents
The song features a bright sound characteristic of post-grunge.
The song was featured as iTunes' single of the week on the week of December 18–25, 2010.
Music video
The music video was released on October 12, 2010 on Yahoo music and the official website of Sick Puppies. It shows two people separately moving to a beach town in Southern California to improve their lives, and meeting there. Actor Tanner Novlan and The Vampire Diaries's Kayla Ewell play the 2 people who met each other. The video also shows the band playing on a highway. It was directed by Travis Kopach, the performance footage was shot in the Mojave Desert.
Charts
"Maybe" was the band's first song that made it into the Hot 100, peaking at No. 56. It spent five weeks at number one on the Heatseekers chart (which ranks songs by acts that had never reached the top 50 on the Hot 100), making it their second number-one hit. On the Alternative Songs chart, the song peaked at No. 6. It became their first single to reach the Mainstream Top 40 chart, as well as their first international charting single.