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Call us gullible when it comes to understanding tuneful songs about troubled relationships, and color us embarrassed for missing the point of "Push," the single that blasted Matchbox 20 onto the charts and into the national consciousness.
Aided by the singles "Push" and "3 A.M.," Yourself or Someone Like You eventually achieved multi-platinum status, but it was hardly a slam dunk, especially early on. The day the album came out, the semi-autonomous Lava shut its doors. Shifted quickly to the much larger mother label, the group had to separate itself from the pack where they were not the immediate priority they had been at the much smaller Lava.
For nearly nine months, Matchbox 20 floundered in obscurity, but their luck began to change in the summer of 1997 as radio airplay of "Push" and a relentless campaign by powerful independent publicity firm MSO combined to put the band on the map. Even so, the group was declared just one more faceless wonder by the press—thanks in part, no doubt, to its meaningless, randomly chosen name. Matchbox 20, Tonic, Third Eye Blind—sure, you might know the song, but try picking any of the band members out of a lineup.
Still, success is the sweetest kind of revenge, and Matchbox 20 is enjoying plenty of that. And if the group has its way, someday we'll know their faces, too. "You know how we're gonna combat this 'faceless band' theory? By making every single person in the United States love us," Gaynor told Maximum Guitar. "We're gonna make every single person in the country happy, and they're gonna love to see us and love to be with us. And that is how we're gonna combat this thing. We're not gonna kill people, we're not gonna abuse women, we're just gonna be the world's greatest, happiest, nicest, friendliest band, and everybody's gonna understand that."
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