Learn to fly

            Foo Fighters

(Português)

"Learn to Fly" é uma canção da banda Foo Fighters lançada em 1999 como primeirosingle de seu álbum There Is Nothing Left to Lose. "Learn to Fly" é um dos mais bem sucedidos singles da banda, incluindo um pico na #19 posição no Billboard Hot 100 e da #1 posição no Modern Rock Tracks, derrotando o seu single "This Is a Call's" que havia conseguido a #2 posição.

Filmado em Londres, na Inglaterra, o videoclipe da música tem lugar em um avião, parodiando o filme Airplane!. A princípio se escuta a canção "Everlong" e se pode ver os mecânicos (integrantes do Tenacious D, Jack Black e Kyle Gass).Os integrantes do Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel e Taylor Hawkins) interpretam o vídeo como vários personagens, incluindo passageiros, assistentes e pilotos. Ganhou o prêmio Grammy de "melhor videoclipe" em 2001.

(English)

"Learn to Fly" is the first single from the Foo Fighters' third album There Is Nothing Left to Lose, release in 1999.

The music video for the song takes place on an commercial airliner, parodying the movieAirplane!, and by extension, the films Airport 1975 and its sequel Airport '77. Two airline mechanics (played by Jack Black and Kyle Gass from Tenacious D) smuggle and hide their narcotic known as "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder" in the coffee-maker. This ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The take off sequence, in addition to the crew members hiding ulterior criminal motives, are a near shot-by-shot homage to the film Airport '77. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), mirroring Karen Black's role in Airport 1975, find themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins) portrays himself as well as several other roles, including an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics. Also, as in the music video for "Monkey Wrench", a Foo Fighters song is played as Muzak in the beginning, this time with "Everlong" from The Colour and the Shape. The premise of smuggling drugs in airplane coffee is nearly identical to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997.

The video was filmed in London, United Kingdom in a cabin crew training airplane. The video won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.