Finger Eleven Music Videos and Band Information

Finger Eleven's frontman Scott Anderson has said that the single has a feel distinct from the rest of Finger Eleven's music, possessing more of a "dance rock" feel. The riff is quite similar to Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out," Motley Crue's "Too Young to Fall in Love", Skid Row's "Youth Gone Wild", Amanda Lepore's "Champagne," Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Underfoot," The Cars' "Moving In Stereo", and Iron Maiden's intro riff from "Stranger in a Strange Land".

The song received high airplay in both the United States and Canada, and was performed live on the March 14, 2007 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and again ten months later on January 9, 2008, in a testament to the longevity of the single's success. The song has surpassed "One Thing" to be Finger Eleven's most successful single.

The single has two versions, one is the original CD version, while one is the radio edit version, which either has the term "shitty" censored in the song for usage on regulated airwaves. Or "It's been shitty" is replaced with "It's not been fun". The song also references "One Thing" with the line "I should just stay home, if one thing really means one". There are three musically different versions of the song. One is the album version, and the two others are both different radio versions. This song is played during the New York Islanders warm-ups at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The song didn't find wide mainstream attention until several months after its release. "One Thing" reached #16 in the U.S., and had exposure on TV series such as Smallville, Scrubs and Third Watch. It was used on World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE's) June 25, 2007 edition of RAW during a tribute video featuring Chris Benoit who had died on June 24.

The music video to the song is also featured on WWE's Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story and Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story DVDs as an extra.

The band thought originally that one of their singles "Stay In Shadow" would be one of their most popular songs but instead people focused on "One Thing".