2022 single by the Kid Laroi
"Thousand Miles " is a song by Australian rapper and singer
the Kid Laroi . It was released as a single through
Columbia Records on 22 April 2022.
[4] The song was written by Laroi alongside Billy Walsh and producers
Andrew Watt and
Louis Bell . "Thousand Miles" is an
acoustically driven
midtempo
emo
pop
ballad that blends guitar strumming and
trap beats .
[5]
[2]
At the
2022 ARIA Music Awards , the song earned the Kid Laroi a nomination for
Best Solo Artist . The song was nominated for
Best Pop Release and
Song of the Year , winning the former.
[6]
At the
APRA Music Awards of 2023 , the song was shortlisted for Song of the Year.
[7]
Background and promotion
Snippets of "Thousand Miles" had been floating around since 2021, but it was not until the following year where it received a proper release.
[8] Laroi teased and deleted lyrics to the song, and performed it at his live shows.
[9]
[10] On 13 April 2022, Laroi announced the release date for the song with a link to
pre-save the single.
[11]
[12] Subsequently, the artist posted a 10-second
TikTok video of himself playing a snippet of the song, encouraging fans to share their own "last mistake" while using the sound before photos of his former manager
Scooter Braun flash across the screen.
[8]
[13]
[14] The clip had amassed over 50,000 likes within two hours of its posting.
[13] On 19 April 2022, Laroi took to
social media to post a six-second clip of him sitting at a bench before a piano unexpectedly falls onto him. The video then cuts to black and displays the single's release date.
[15]
Accolades
Commercial performance
In Australia, "Thousand Miles" debuted at number four on the
ARIA Singles Chart , making it Laroi's fifth top-ten entry.
[17] It entered the US
Billboard Hot 100 at number 15, becoming his fourth top-20 hit and highest debut as a solo artist.
[2]
Music video
The official music video premiered to YouTube on 22 April 2022, the same day the song was released. The theatrical-leaning clip was directed by
Christian Breslauer , who has also directed music videos for
Charlie Puth and
Lil Nas X . It features appearances from TikTok influencer, Katarina Deme, Laroi's girlfriend.
It begins with Deme as a barista with Laroi buying a coffee. The rest of the video depicts Laroi, dressed in white, being tortured multiple times by his evil self, dressed in red. Eventually, Laroi gets hit by a train, with his evil self performing surgery on him after. He then steals his girlfriend in which she pushes bandaged Laroi away in a wheelchair and he ironically gets hit again, this time by an ambulance van.
An American indie artist,
Oliver Tree , posted an
Instagram video showing how many of the music video's shots were taken from multiple of his own self-directed music videos.
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Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from
Tidal .
[19]
The Kid Laroi – vocals, songwriting
Andrew Watt – production, songwriting, guitar
Louis Bell – production, songwriting, keyboards, programming, vocal engineering
Billy Walsh – songwriting
Anthony Vilchis – assistant engineering
Trey Station – assistant engineering
Zach Pereyra – assistant engineering
Paul Lamalfa – engineering
Randy Merrill – mastering
Manny Marroquin – mixing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
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