"Snap Out of It" is a song by English

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band

Arctic Monkeys Arctic Monkeys are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002. They comprise lead singer Alex Turner, drummer Matt Helders, guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Nick O'Malley. The co-founder and original bassist Andy Nicholson ...

from their fifth studio album, '' AM''. The song was released as the album's sixth overall single on 9 June 2014, impacting

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in the United Kingdom.

Music video

The music video was directed by Focus Creeps and was released on 16 June 2014. In the video, a woman (

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) sits on her couch, and watches footage of the band recording in the studio. She gets fixated on frontman

Alex Turner Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician. He is the lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. Turner is known for his Songwriter, lyricism ranging from kitchen sink realism to surrealism, surreal ...

and starts crying, dancing, and puts her face close to the television. Towards the end, she also appears in the recording, alluding to, that in the story, they were a couple and now they had broken up.

Critical reception

Mic Wright of ''

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'' wrote the song "has clicks, claps and the kind of catchy hooks that'll get you a job pumping out new songs for

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Personnel

;Arctic Monkeys *

– lead vocals, rhythm guitar *Jamie Cook – lead guitar *Nick O'Malley – bass guitar, backing vocals *

Matt Helders Matthew Helders (born 7 May 1986) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, who is the drummer and occasional singer of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He has also released a studio album and collaborated with artists such as Dean Fertita, ...

– drums, backing vocals ;Additional personnel * James Ford – piano, keyboards, production

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References

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