"I Get Off" is the debut single by American hard rock band

Halestorm Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Lzzy Hale, her drummer brother Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bassist Josh Smith. The group's self-titled debut album was ...

, released on March 10, 2009, from their 2009 self-titled debut album. The song was written by lead singer

Lzzy Hale Elizabeth Mae "Lzzy" Hale (born October 10, 1983) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of hard rock band Halestorm, which she co-founded with her brother Arejay Hale in 1997. Career Hale began writing and ...

with its producer,

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, and Dana Calitri, Kathy Sommer, and Nina Ossoff. Lyrically, the song describes deriving pleasure from sexual exhibitionism.

Critical reception

Tim Grierson of About.com wrote that "I Get Off" is "low-grade stripper-rock" that finds Hale "belting her sexual devotion in a rather unappealing way." Nick at TuneLab conversely described the song as "instantly catchy" and wrote that "its ever-building verses blending seamlessly into soaring choruses."

Commercial performance

"I Get Off" reached number 6 on the ''

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airplay chart, earning the band their first top-ten single. It additionally reached number 17 on the magazine's

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chart and number 28 on the

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chart. The song remains their only single to impact the latter chart. In July 2017, the song was certified

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by the

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(RIAA) for combined sales and streams of over 500,000 equivalent units.

Music video

The video for "I Get Off" was directed by Phil Mucci and premiered October 2, 2009. It shows the band playing in a room and shows the lead singer, Lzzy Hale, in a secret room being watched by a male.

Other appearances

In November 2017, "I Get Off" was made available as a playable song for the

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''. "I Get Off" was one of five songs re-recorded for the band's 2020

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, ''Reimagined'', that saw the group re-interpreting their earlier recordings.

Charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

{{authority control 2009 songs 2009 debut singles Halestorm songs Atlantic Records singles Songs written by Howard Benson Songs written by Lzzy Hale