Final Warning (Skylar Grey song)

"Final Warning"
Single by Skylar Grey
from the album Don't Look Down
ReleasedApril 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)
GenrePop
Length3:38
Label
Songwriters
ProducerAlex da Kid
Skylar Grey singles chronology
"C'mon Let Me Ride"
(2012) 		"Final Warning"
(2013) 		"Wear Me Out"
(2013)
Music video
"Final Warning" on YouTube

"Final Warning" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Skylar Grey from her second studio album, Don't Look Down (2013). Grey wrote the song with its producer, Alex Da Kid. Kidinakorner and Interscope Records released it as the album's second single on April 16, 2013. "Final Warning" is a mid-tempo pop song, on which Grey scornfully addresses an unfaithful lover.

Background

While Skylar Grey was living in a cabin in Oregon, she said that she was coming into a new version of herself.[1] Grey said she wrote "Final Warning" in that cabin the same week she had written the chorus to "Love the Way You Lie."[2] The song is also about the same relationship as "Love the Way You Lie".

Grey wrote the song around the same time she wrote "Love the Way You Lie" and it was originally intended for her scrapped 2012 studio album Invinsible.[3] The song, originally titled "This Is Your Final Warning", was written in two hours.[4]

Critical reception

Sam Lansky from Idolator described the song as "a skittering midtempo ballad that’s not playful or ironic — it’s just dark" and compared its lyrics to Grey's biggest hit as a songwriter, "Love the Way You Lie".[5]

Track listings

Digital download

  1. "Final Warning" - 3:41

Remix Versions

  1. "Final Warning" (Faustix & Imanos Remix)[6] - 3:22
  2. "Final Warning" (MisterMike Remix featuring Thurz)[7] - 5:10
  3. "Final Warning" (featuring Corey Pieper & Nathan Allan)[8] - 3:29

Music video

On April 17, lyric video for the song was released on Grey's Vevo account. On May 13, Grey released the official musical video, which "tells the story of a mistress whose lover attempts to put her to rest for good, so he can live happily ever after with his pretty blond wife. However, Grey, who plays the other woman, resurfaces, and confronts her would-be murderer at home, in front of his family during his birthday party".[9] The music video has over 6 million views.

Legacy

Billie Eilish cited "Final Warning" as an inspiration for her song "Bellyache".[10]

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Don't Look Down.[11]

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
Ukraine 15

References

  1. ^ SkylarGreyVEVO (June 21, 2013). "Skylar Grey - The Grizzly Diaries" – via YouTube.
  2. ^ Fuse (May 13, 2013). "Skylar Grey "Final Warning" (Behind the Scenes)" – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Ryan, M. Sean (January 18, 2012). "10 Questions: Skylar Grey". BMI. Archived from the original on December 9, 2013.
  4. ^ Ulaby, Neda (December 26, 2011). "Skylar Grey: And the Hits Keep Coming". NPR. Archived from the original on November 17, 2025.
  5. ^ "» Skylar Grey's "Final Warning": Hear The Sinister Single". www.idolator.com. April 16, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ^ "Skylar Grey - Final Warning (Faustix & Imanos Remix) by djimanos - Hear the world's sounds". Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  7. ^ "Skylar Grey "Final Warning" MisterMike Remix featuring THURZ".
  8. ^ "YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  9. ^ "» Idolator & Styld.by: Skylar Grey's "Final Warning" Video". www.idolator.com. May 15, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ^ Baltin, Steve (December 17, 2018). "Billie Eilish on Her New Album, Fame & Scary Movies: 'I Like the Feeling of Being Terrified'". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 2, 2022.
  11. ^ Kidinakorner; Interscope Records (2013). Don't Look Down (Media notes). Skylar Grey.
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