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| name = Harder Than You Think | cover = Public_Enemy_-_Harder_Than_You_Think.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Public Enemy | album = How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? | released = August 13, 2007 {{small|(vinyl)}} August 18, 2012 {{small|(digital download)}} | format = {{hlist|12" vinyl|digital download}} | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Hip hop | length = 4:10 (album version) 3:10 (UK radio edit) | label = SLAMjamz Records | writer = {{hlist|Chuck D|Flavor Flav|Gary G-Wiz}} | producer = Gary G-Wiz | chronology = Public Enemy | prev_title = Amerikan Gangster | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = Say It Like It Really Is | next_year = 2010 }} "Harder Than You Think" is the first single from Public Enemy's 20th anniversary album How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? released in 2007. It was produced by Gary G-Wiz. The song attained popularity during summer 2012 after being chosen as the theme tune to the 2012 Paralympic Games coverage on Channel 4 in the UK, and became Public Enemy's highest-charting single on the UK Singles Chart in August 2012. The track samples extensively from Shirley Bassey's 1972 track "Jezahel"[1][2] as well as their own 1987 track "Public Enemy No. 1".[2] Music videoThe music video was directed by David C. Snyder, and was uploaded unofficially onto YouTube on the 3rd of August 2007. The video has a view count of 9.1 million as of March 2019. Following the use of "Harder Than You Think" to soundtrack the UK's Channel 4 coverage of the Summer 2012 Paralympics, a music video including clips from the Channel 4 trailer for the Summer 2012 Paralympics was produced by HWIC Filmworks (founded by John Delserone and David C. Snyder, who directed the original video).[3][4] A version of the video was also produced for the Dehasse Radio Edit, a dance version of the track remixed for the 2012 re-emergence of the track in the UK charts. Use in mediaThe song was featured in Eric Koston's segment in the 2007 skateboarding video "Fully Flared". The song and its beat were used by ESPN for the 2011 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament. The song is also featured on the soundtrack of the video game Skate 2. The song was later featured heavily in a Fall K-Mart ad as of September 2011. It is also one of the lead songs in the commercials for ESPN's broadcasting of the Winter X Games. The song featured prominently towards the end of the BBC Four 2011 documentary "Public Enemy: Prophets Of Rage" which was screened as the fourth episode of the channel's "Black Music Legends Of The 1980s" series. It also appeared in the trailer for the 2012 film The Art of Rap and was also the only track to feature on its soundtrack album which did not appear in the actual film. The song is also featured at the opening of the 2012 film End of Watch. ParalympicsIn the United Kingdom, it was used as the soundtrack in both the 90-second long trailer[5][6] and as the theme tune to Channel 4's coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[7] The song subsequently experienced a surge in sales, peaking at number 4 and thereby becoming Public Enemy's first Top 10 single in the UK and their highest-charting single ever in the nation. A review for The Independent said of its re-release in the UK: "Following its prominent use in Channel 4's Paralympics coverage, great lost 2007 single 'Harder Than You Think' had a sales surge that carried it into the UK Top Five, giving the band their biggest hit to date. It'd be a thrilling piece of work in any era, Chuck delivering a typically apocalyptic call to arms over a backing track which uses a horn sample from Shirley Bassey's 'Jezahel', but to hear it blasting from the radio in the second decade of this century is beyond beautiful."[8] The song also serves as the theme tune to the British TV show The Last Leg, which was originally a show that ran alongside the 2012 Paralympics, but later spun off as an independent show. The song was also used as the theme tune to Channel 4's coverage of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Track listing
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Certifications{{Certification Table Top}}{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Public Enemy|title=Harder Than You Think|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=2007|certyear=2018|accessdate=November 17, 2018}}{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}Release history
References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/public-enemy-hero-or-villain-8100568.html|title=Public Enemy:Hero or villain?|publisher=Independent.co.uk|accessdate=22 Sep 2012|location=London|first=Simmy|last=Richman|date=2 September 2012}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/13687/Public%20Enemy-Harder%20Than%20You%20Think_Shirley%20Bassey-Jezahel/|title=Public Enemy's Harder Than You Think|publisher=Whosampled.com|accessdate=22 Sep 2012}} 3. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fob1BBJS5hA Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think - UK Paralympics version of music video ] 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1148770/|title=Public Enemy adapts C4 ad for Paralympian tribute|first= Loulla-Mae |last=Eleftheriou-Smith|work=Campaign|date=6 September 2012|accessdate=3 December 2012}} 5. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw Channel 4 90 second long trailer for the 2012 Summer Paralympics] 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/paralympic-sport/9408389/London-2012-Paralympics-Channel-4-launches-Paralympic-Games-advert.html|title=London 2012 Paralympics: Channel 4 launches Paralympic Games advert|first=Sophia|last=Heath|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=18 July 2012|accessdate=3 December 2012}} 7. ^Decoding The Superhumans Trailer | That Paralympic Blog 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/public-enemy-the-dome-brightontame-impala-brixton-academy-london-8280350.html|title=Public Enemy, The Dome, Brighton Tame Impala, Brixton Academy, London|first=Simon|last=Price|work=The Independent|date=4 November 2012|accessdate=3 December 2012}} 9. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.juno.co.uk/products/279025-01.htm|title=Harder Than You Think at Juno Records|publisher=Juno Records|date=2007-08-13}} 10. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/harder-than-you-think-radio/id554498016|title=iTunes - Music - Harder Than You Think (Radio Edit) - Single by Public Enemy|publisher=iTunes (UK)|date=2012-08-18}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/how-you-sell-soul-to-soulless/id260786494|title=iTunes - Music - How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul (Audio Version) by Public Enemy|publisher=iTunes (UK)|date=2007-01-01}} External links
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