| Howlin' for You | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Black Keys |
| Album: | Brothers |
| Released: | January 25, 2011 |
| Recorded: | Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Muscle Shoals, Alabama |
| Length: | 3:12 |
| Label: | Nonesuch |
| Producer: | The Black Keys, Mark Neill |
| Prev Title: | Next Girl |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | Lonely Boy |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
"Howlin' for You" is a song by The Black Keys from the band's sixth album, Brothers.
An official video was released for the song.[1] [2] The music video—a parody of a sexploitation film trailer—was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero, starring Tricia Helfer, Diora Baird, Sean Patrick Flanery, Christian Serratos, Corbin Bernsen, Todd Bridges, and Shaun White, as well as Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the band in the role of "Las Teclas de Negro" (translated from Spanish as "The Keys of Black").
A behind-the-scenes interview with Piliero, filmed during production of the video, has tongue-in-cheek commentary and brief clips of the cast members describing their characters.[3]
The video was one of five nominees for the 2011 MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video.[4]
"Howlin' for You" is widely regarded as one of the band's best songs. In 2012, Complex ranked the song number ten on their list of the 15 greatest Black Keys songs,[5] and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number four on their list of the 10 greatest Black Keys songs.[6]
"Howlin' for You" is featured on the soundtrack of the EA Sports video games, NHL 11, NHL Slapshot and Need for Speed Payback. The song has been featured in TV commercials and films for The Dilemma, Limitless, The Guilt Trip, Moneyball, Dark Shadows, Citizen Gangster, Deadpool, , and The Bad Guys. It is used as the theme song to the Australian police drama television series, Cops L.A.C., and has been featured in American television series, , Detroit 1-8-7, Entourage, Once Upon a Time, Prime Suspect, Chuck, Necessary Roughness, Suits, Lucifer, Secret Diary of a Call Girl and The Chicago Code. MLB's Toronto Blue Jays used it as their home run song (except for José Bautista), and the NHL's Arizona Coyotes used it as their goal song.[7]