Hit and Run (Breathe Carolina song)

"Hit and Run" is a song by American electronic music group Breathe Carolina. It was released on May 22, 2012 as the second single from the reloaded version of their third studio album Hell Is What You Make It.^[1]

"Hit and Run"
Single by Breathe Carolina
from the album Hell Is What You Make It
Released	May 22, 2012 (2012-05-22)
Genre	Electronic rock electropop
Length	3:12
Label	Fearless
Songwriter(s)	Ian Kirkpatrick Lindy Robbins David Schmitt Kyle Even Joshua Aragon Luis Bonet Eric Armenta
Producer(s)	Kirkpatrick Matt Squire
Breathe Carolina singles chronology
"Blackout" (2011) "Hit and Run" (2012) "Savages" (2013)
Music video
"Hit and Run" on YouTube

Background and composition

The song was written by David Schmitt, Kyle Even, Eric Armenta, Joshua Aragon, Luis Bonet, and Lindy Robbins while production was handled by Ian Kirkpatrick and Matt Squire. The track runs at 124 BPM and is in the key of F-sharp minor.^[2] Band member Kyle Even said that the song was one of his favorites from the album. Even said that the song is about, "wanting things to stay the same, but wanting them to be different, too."^[3]

The band released the cover art for "Hit and Run" on May 16, 2012.^[4] They first performed the song live on May 19, 2012.^[5] The song premiered on Alternative Press on May 21, 2012 and was released digitally the following day.^[1] A lyric video was released that same day.^[6] A remix to the song was released in July 2012 that was included in the reloaded version of Hell Is What You Make It.^[7] The song sold 20,000 digital downloads in its first week.^[8]

Reception

MTV's David Greenwald said, "'Hit and Run' goes all T-Pain-meets-Skrillex on us, smoothing out the duo's vocals with auto-tune and adding rave-ready bass to Breathe Carolina's beat arsenal."^[9]

Music video

The band released a music video teaser for "Hit and Run" on June 8.^[10] It was officially released on June 13, 2012 and was directed by Travis Kopach.^[11] Speaking about the music video, Kyle Even said, "The whole idea behind the video was that we live in this black and white world, but there was one girl who knew what color was and she shows us that it's ok to be different. It starts a contagious array and now the whole world is in color."^[3]

Track listing

Digital download

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hit and Run"	3:12

CD single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hit and Run"	3:11
2.	"Hit and Run" (Instrumental)	3:11

Remix version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hit and Run" (Wideboys Remix)	3:31

Charts

Chart performance for "Hit and Run"

Chart (2012)	Peak position
CIS (TopHit)[12] Alex Grand and Glazunov Remix	204
Lithuania (EHR)[13]	32
US Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[14]	19

Release history

Release history for "Hit and Run"

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
Various	May 22, 2012	Digital download streaming	Fearless	[15]
United States	June 5, 2012	Contemporary hit radio		[16]

References

1. "Premiere: Breathe Carolina, "Hit And Run"". Alternative Press. May 21, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
2. "Key and BPM of Hit and Run by Breathe Carolina". Musicstax.com. June 1, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
3. Emily Laurence (July 14, 2012). "17 Minutes With Breathe Carolina". Seventeen. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
4. "Check out the cover art for Breath Carolina's "Hit And Run" single". Alternative Press. May 16, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
5. Tori Thomas (May 19, 2012). "Breathe Carolina Perform "Hit and Run" For the First Time Live". underthegunreview.net. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
6. Bryne Yancey (May 22, 2012). "Breathe Carolina release "Hit And Run" lyric video". Alternative Press. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
7. Katie Hasty (July 9, 2012). "Song of the Day Exclusive: Breathe Carolina's "Hit and Run" Wideboys remix". Uproxx. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
8. @davidlovesitalways (June 12, 2012). "Let's go!" – via Instagram.
9. David Greenwald (May 22, 2012). "New Video: Breathe Carolina, 'Hit and Run (Lyric Video)'". MTV. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
10. Michele Bird (June 8, 2012). "Breathe Carolina release "Hit And Run" teaser video". Alternative Press. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
11. "Breathe Carolina - Hit and Run". IMVDb.com. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
12. Breathe Carolina — Hit and Run (Alex Grand and Glazunov Remix). TopHit. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
13. "European Hit Radio Top 40". Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
14. "Breathe Carolina Chart History (Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales)". Billboard. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
15. "Hit and Run - Single by Breathe Carolina". Apple Music. Retrieved December 25, 2022.
16. "Top 40/Mainstream - Future Releases". All Access Mediabase. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved December 25, 2022.

External links

• "Hit and Run" at Discogs (list of releases)