The Donnas - Xterra Commercial

The Donnas
Fall Behind Me

I’d been hearing this one alt-rock girl song as background music for a commercial for the Nissan Xterra lately. I knew I’d actually heard this song elsewhere on radio but I just couldn’t place who it was, but I remembered who it was the other day. The song used in the commercial is called “Fall Behind Me” by the Bay-area punkette band turned MTV fave The Donnas.

This is off of their latest album Gold Medal and is a pretty catchy tune. The all-girl band has been kicking around for quite some time already, nearly a decade of playing pop-punk in smaller clubs before hitting it much bigger a few years ago. People have looked at them and their name and said, “Ok, so it’s the female version of The Ramones“. That’s not entirely true; I think The Donnas are much more poppy despite their punkier roots. They don’t seem anywhere near as loud or angsty as say, Sleater-Kinney.

A strange footnote: it’s weird but the visual that triggered the memory of who the Xterra Commercial song was by was seeing The Donnas on those VH-1 “I Love The 80’s” specials…

by Palebear