Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)

"Run"
Single by Gnarls Barkley
from the album The Odd Couple
ReleasedFebruary 5, 2008
GenreR&B
Length2:44
LabelWarner Music
Songwriter(s)Danger Mouse
Cee-Lo Green
Producer(s)Danger Mouse
Gnarls Barkley singles chronology
"Who Cares?" / "Gone Daddy Gone"
(2006)
"Run"
(2008)
"Going On"
(2008)
Audio sample
Music video
"Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)" on YouTube

"Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)", also known more commonly as "Run", is a song written and recorded by Gnarls Barkley. It is the first single to be released from the band's second album The Odd Couple. Released in February 2008 as a digital download in the UK and the US via the iTunes Store, a physical release of the single followed in the UK on March 31. The song features a sample from Keith Mansfield's "Junior Jet Set" from the KPM LP Flamboyant Themes and "Starting Out the Day" by Strawberry Alarm Clock. The song is featured in the film X-Men: First Class, as a playable song in the video game Dance Central 2, and is heard in promos for Disney-Pixar's Cars 2 and the eight series of CBBC's Raven. This song was number 34 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[1]

  1. ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2008". Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved 2008-12-25