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  Artist Brad Paisley
  From Album 5th Gear
  Released 2007
  Format CD Single
  Recorded 2007
  Genre Country Music
  Label Arista Nashville
  Writer Chris DuBois, Kelley Lovelace, Brad Paisley
  Last Single " Ticks "<BR>(2007)
  This Single "Online"<BR>(2007)


"Online" is a single by American Country Music artist Brad Paisley . It is the second single from Brad Paisley 's 2007 album 5th Gear .


CONTENT

"Online" is a satire about the online world, specifically MySpace .

Here, the main protagonist is a and has had limited success in the dating world.

Actually "five-foot-three and overweight", a fan of / I'm six-foot-five and I look damn good / I drive a Maserati /I'm a black-belt in karate / And I love a good glass of wine"''). Later in the song, he claims to live in Malibu, California (in reality, the only time he had been close to there was when he played tuba in the Rose Parade years earlier), have a finely sculptured body, and pose for Calvin Klein Inc. and '' GQ Magazine ''.

The fictitious alternate personality makes the geek claim that he is "so much cooler online." He even boasts that, even on a slow day, he can "have a three-way... chat with two women at one time."

The songs ends with the main melody being played by a marching band.


VIDEO

The video is directed by Jason Alexander , who plays the geek in the song as well; William Shatner plays the geek's dad and Estelle Harris is the jealous mother. Patrick Warburton has a cameo as a car dealer, and Maureen McCormick is featured as the geek's next door neighbor. Country music artists Taylor Swift and Kellie Pickler also make appearances. The video was shot in Auburn, Washington , during Brad Paisley's tour.

Jason Alexander, Estelle Harris and Patrick Warburton are all '' Seinfeld '' alumni. In the series, Harris also played Alexander's mother and Warburton also played a car salesman. Shatner and Alexander also appeared in Paisley's video for " Celebrity ". Some scenes from the Celebrity video are used in the "Online" video.

The song's video became the first ever country music video to reach #1 on the ITunes video sales charts.1


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