Run Away With Me

Run Away With Me

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Added Mar 29, 2016 at 01:13PM EDT by Don.

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"Run Away with Me" is a 2015 pop song written and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen that was released as the second single from her third studio album Emotion. In late February 2016, the saxophone arrangement from the opening of the song inspired a series of remix videos on Vine.

Origin

On July 17th, 2015, "Run Away with Me" was released as the second single off Jepsen's album Emotion. The same day, the CarlyRaeJepsen VEVO YouTube channel uploaded the official music video for the track, which gathered upwards of 17.8 million views and 7,500 comments in the next eight months (shown below).



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On August 20th, 2015, the Trap Nation YouTube channel uploaded a trap remix of the song (shown below, left). On December 1st, YouTuber Brenda Hikaru posted an anime music video set to "Run Away with Me" (shown below, right).



On December 7th, the Sims Community YouTube channel uploaded a version of the track sung in the fictional language Simlish from The Sims video game series (shown below).



On Vine

On February 4th, 2016, Viner T. Kyle posted a clip from the cartoon series Regular Show with "Run Away with Me" dubbed over the background audio (shown below, left). On February 17th, Viner Dean MS posted a video clip of several young people dancing outdoors to the song with the caption "me and my friends at a Carly Rae Jepsen show" (shown below, right). Over the next two months, both videos gained over 2 million loops and 700,000 revines.



On March 3rd, Viner DiscreetLationo posted a short clip of actress Jennifer Garner playing a saxophone with the opening sax melody from "Run Away with Me" playing in the background (shown below, left). On March 21st, Viner T. Kyle posted a dubbed video of singer Rihanna handing a mic to an audience member who begins to sing "Run Away with Me" (shown below, right). Later that month, several news sites published articles about the Vine remix series, including BuzzFeed,[1] NY Mag,[2] MTV[3] and NME.[4]



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