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Single by The Killers featuring Ryan Pardey and Richard Dreyfuss | ||||
Released | November 27, 2015 | |||
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Length | 4:27 | |||
Label | Island | |||
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The Killers singles chronology | ||||
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"Dirt Sledding" is a song by American rock band The Killers, featuring actor Richard Dreyfuss and the return of Ryan Pardey as Santa. It was released on November 27, 2015. [1] The song is the third and final chapter in a trilogy storyline involving a grudge-holding Santa Claus, following tracks " Don't Shoot Me Santa" (2007) and " I Feel It in My Bones" (2012). The song marks the tenth consecutive year in which the band has released a Christmas song. As with their previous Christmas releases, all proceeds from this song go to AIDS charities as part of the Product Red campaign. [2]
The song was named one of the best new holidays songs of the 2010s by Rolling Stone. [3]
The video for "Dirt Sledding" was directed and co-produced by actor and director Matthew Gray Gubler, who is also a native of Las Vegas and directed the first video in the Santa Claus trilogy, "Don't Shoot Me Santa". [4] The video features a reprisal of Santa Claus played by Pardey, as well as a spoken word section by Dreyfuss.
The car used in the video is a Guards Red 1983 Porsche 944 which pays reference to the same exact one used in the 1984 John Hughes film Sixteen Candles (as heard in the lyrics).
"Dirt Sledding" | ||||
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Single by The Killers featuring Ryan Pardey and Richard Dreyfuss | ||||
Released | November 27, 2015 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:27 | |||
Label | Island | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
The Killers singles chronology | ||||
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"Dirt Sledding" is a song by American rock band The Killers, featuring actor Richard Dreyfuss and the return of Ryan Pardey as Santa. It was released on November 27, 2015. [1] The song is the third and final chapter in a trilogy storyline involving a grudge-holding Santa Claus, following tracks " Don't Shoot Me Santa" (2007) and " I Feel It in My Bones" (2012). The song marks the tenth consecutive year in which the band has released a Christmas song. As with their previous Christmas releases, all proceeds from this song go to AIDS charities as part of the Product Red campaign. [2]
The song was named one of the best new holidays songs of the 2010s by Rolling Stone. [3]
The video for "Dirt Sledding" was directed and co-produced by actor and director Matthew Gray Gubler, who is also a native of Las Vegas and directed the first video in the Santa Claus trilogy, "Don't Shoot Me Santa". [4] The video features a reprisal of Santa Claus played by Pardey, as well as a spoken word section by Dreyfuss.
The car used in the video is a Guards Red 1983 Porsche 944 which pays reference to the same exact one used in the 1984 John Hughes film Sixteen Candles (as heard in the lyrics).