QUIZ: How well do you know Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle"?
Despite being released in 2001, Jimmy Eat World‘s “The Middle” is still one of the most well-known alternative songs around. Everybody knows the lyrics to the Bleed American track, right? Prove it by taking the quiz below!
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Even one of the biggest pop stars around knows the words to the Jimmy Eat World track. In 2016, Apple released an advertisement commercial for Apple Music that featured Taylor Swift singing along to “The Middle.”
“Oh my God, I love this song,” the singer/songwriter says as she prepares to press play. “I used to listen to this in middle school.”
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This is likely not much of a stretch for Swift who performed the emo staple with Jim Adkins back in 2011 during her own headlining run. The Jimmy Eat World frontman surprised fans by joining her onstage in Phoenix. Over the years, Swift has recruited Paramore’s Hayley Williams for “That‘s What You Get” and Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump for “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up),” the latter of whom were reunited at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Williams and Swift’s friendship has also been well documented between Dashboard Confessional sing-alongs with Chris Carrabba himself and the Paramore frontwoman appearing in Swift’s “Bad Blood” video as Crimson Curse. As if you needed any more proof that Swift actually likes this music, she was also really into the Academy Is… and Boys Like Girls, the latter of whom she also collaborated with on “Two Is Better Than One.”
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In the Apple Music ad, Swift chooses Jimmy Eat World from Apple’s Jukebox Hits: ‘00s Alternative Rock playlist. Directly underneath “The Middle” is My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome To The Black Parade.”
This is Swift’s second ad for Apple’s streaming service. The first feature showed her rapping along to Drake and Future’s “Jumpman.”
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Swift’s singing benefitted both tracks, according to Billboard, but the scene favorites got an even bigger bump than Drake.
“The tune’s bump was even larger than [Drake’s] “Jumpman”: between the week before the ad’s April 18 debut and the week after, “The Middle” soared 298 percent in sales and 49 percent in U.S. streams (from 3,000 downloads sold to 12,000; from 614,000 clicks to 916,000) and led to a surprise appearance on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart at No. 16,” the site states.
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