| Lazy Eye | |
| Cover: | Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups Single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Silversun Pickups |
| Album: | Carnavas |
| Released: | [1] |
| Recorded: | Beer Wine Fish, Echo Park; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California, 2006 |
| Length: | 5:54 |
| Label: | Dangerbird |
| Producer: | Dave Cooley |
| Prev Title: | Kissing Families |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Future Foe Scenarios |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
"Lazy Eye" is the first single from Silversun Pickups' debut album Carnavas, written by lead singer and guitarist Brian Aubert. The band performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Later With Jools Holland, and Last Call with Carson Daly. The song is a playable track on Rock Band 2 and .
An alternate version of the song, with a length of 7:27, was played on XMU before the shorter version was played on FM and other XM channels. This version was featured on their demo CD (which featured early versions of four tracks).
The music video for "Lazy Eye" was directed by Suzie Vlcek and produced by Eric Morgan. Former band member, Kennedy, makes a cameo appearance in the video as a bartender and the band's original drummer, Elvira Gonzalez, makes a cameo appearance as a box office/door attendant.
The video received extensive airplay on MTV, MTV2, MTVU, VH1, Fuse, MuchMusic, MTV (Latin America), International Music Feed and many other international broadcast outlets. The popularity of the video led to the creation of a VH1 "Pop-Up Video" version.[2] The "Lazy Eye" music video was among the MTV2 Subterranean "Viewers Top 20 Music Videos of 2007" list.[3]
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Peru Weekly Chart | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100[13] | 91 |
| Chart (2007–08) | Position |
|---|---|
| Peru Year-end chart | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs | 17 |
| Triple J Hottest 100 | 28 |
The song was featured in the television series The O.C., Criminal Minds, and Reaper, the 2008 film Prom Night, a promo for Major League Baseball's 2008 All-Star Game, a video package at the end of FOX's coverage of the 2008 World Series, a video package for CBC's 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs, a 2012 New Zealand New World Supermarket advertising campaign and the video games Rock Band 2, , and Forza Horizon.