City Of Angels

"City of Angels" is a song recorded by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, written by lead vocalist Jared Leto for the band's fourth studio album, Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams. The song appears as the fourth track on the album. After appearing at number 33 on the UK Rock Chart upon the album's release, the song was sent to US Modern rock radio as a promotional single from Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams on July 30, 2013.[1]

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1 Promotion

2 Background

3 Music video

4 Track listing

5 Credits and personnel

6 Charts

7 Release history

8 References

9 External links

Promotion[edit]

Following the release of "City of Angels" to United States radio, the song was put on sale on the online digital media iTunes Store and through Amazon.com for 69 US cents in North America on their respective listings for the Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams album.[2][3]

Background[edit]

"City of Angels" was written by Jared Leto and produced with previous collaborator Steve Lillywhite. It was recorded at The International Centre for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences of Sound in Los Angeles, California. Leto described "City of Angels" as the most personal song that Thirty Seconds to Mars had ever written; he said "it's the story of my brother and I going to Los Angeles to make our dreams come true. It's a love letter to that beautiful and bizarre land."[4] Leto explained that the song could refer to any place where a person go to fulfill his own dreams.[5] He stated, "That was a very personal song, obviously, about a specific place: Los Angeles. But it could be... well, when I was a younger kid, it was New York City. That was the place where I went to make my dreams come true, at that time to be a painter, an artist. I was in art school and New York was the place where you went to makes those things come alive. And as I got older, I started studying film and I came out to Los Angeles. But it could be Paris, it could be Shanghai, it could be San Francisco, Palo Alto, anywhere. A place where you go to realize yourself and your dreams."[5]

Music video[edit]

The music video for "City of Angels" premiered on October 12, 2013 during the Thirty Seconds to Mars concert at the Hollywood Bowl. It was directed by Jared Leto under the alias Bartholomew Cubbins. The short film was shot over two days on August 18 and 19th, 2013, in Los Angeles, California, and features multiple monoliths and murals, including a Michael Jackson impersonator and homeless people, hired by Leto himself for the video.[6] The very next day after the video's release, #CityOfAngelsOnYoutubeNow became a top trending topic on Twitter. Reception to the short film has been very high.

The music video was released on YouTube on October

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