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  • Jet:Are You Gonna Be My Girl
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  • 2003 singles
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  • Elektra Records singles
  • Hard rock songs
  • Jet (band) songs
  • Song recordings produced by Dave Sardy
  • Songs written by Cameron Muncey
  • Songs written by Nic Cester
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  • %22Are You Gonna Be My Girl%22 is a song by Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album, Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the United Kingdom, and in 2004 in the United States. Written by Nic Cester and Cameron Muncey, the song is often cited for similarities to Iggy Pop's %22Lust for Life%22 (particularly its drum pattern and near-identical guitar riff); and the 1999 song %22Screwdriver%22 from The White Stripes. The band, however, argues that %22Are You Gonna Be My Girl%22 has more in common with 1960s Motown songs, namely %22I'm Ready For Love%22 by Martha And The Vandellas and %22You Can't Hurry Love%22 by The Supremes. The song hit number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 making it their 1st Top 40 hit and their highest charting single, it also hit number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks and number 7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. Even though it did not hit number one like the next hit, %22Cold Hard Bitch%22, %22Are You Gonna Be My Girl%22 stayed longer on the charts and is the band's most successful song, often regarded as their signature song.Chris Cester responded to the media debacle, stating in a Jared Story interview that the beat was taken from Motown, referring to a meeting between Iggy Pop and himself:%22It's funny because I asked him point blank about that. He said I was crazy. He said that when he and David Bowie were writing %22Lust for Life%22, they were ripping off Motown's beat. It's funny that he said that to me because we also thought we were ripping off Motown more than %22Lust for Life%22. To be honest with you that kind of annoyed me a lot, because I always thought it was really lazy. People just go well Lust for Life is more well-known so that's what they go for, but if you listen to a song like %22You Can't Hurry Love%22 (The Supremes) I think you'll find its closer to %22Are You Gonna Be My Girl%22 than %22Lust for Life%22 ever was. And that's what Iggy said as well.%22In 2014, WatchMojo.com ranked the songs' similarities #1 on Top 10 Sound-alike Songs.
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