Thousand Miles (The Kid Laroi song)
"Thousand Miles" is a song by Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi. It was released as a single through Columbia Records on 22 April 2022. The song was written by Laroi, Andrew Watt, Louis Bell, and Billy Walsh. "Thousand Miles" is a pop song. Background and promotion. Snippets of "Thousand Miles" had been floating around since 2021, but it was not until the following year where it received a proper release. Laroi teased and deleted lyrics to the song, and performed it at his live shows. A version of the song leaked in  entirety on 1 April 2022. On 13 April 2022, Laroi announced the release date for the song with a link to pre-save the single. Subsequently, the artist posted a 10-second TikTok video of himself playing a snippet of the song, encouraging fans to share their own "last mistake" while using the sound before photos of his former manager Scooter Braun flash across the screen. The clip had amassed over 50,000 likes within two hours of its posting. On 19 April 2022, Laroi took to social media to post a six-second clip of him sitting at a bench  before a piano unexpectedly falls onto him. The video then cuts to black and displays the single's release date. Music video. The official music video premiered to YouTube on 22 April 2022, the same day the song was released. The theatrical-leaning clip was directed by Christian Breslauer, who has also directed music videos for Charlie Puth and Lil Nas X. It features appearances from TikTok influencer, Katarina Deme, Laroi's girlfriend. It begins with Deme as a barista with Laroi buying a coffee. The rest of the video depicts Laroi, dressed in white, being tortured multiple times by  his evil self, dressed in red. Eventually, Laroi gets hit by a train, with his evil self performing surgery on him after. He then steals his girlfriend in which she pushes bandaged Laroi away in a wheelchair and he ironically gets hit again, this time by an ambulance van. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal.