Filter - Take A Picture

"Take a Picture" was the second single off Filter's Title of Record. The song became a major hit during the start of 2000. It was very different from the industrial rock that Filter usually played and instead was soft and melodic.
The song's lush synthesized wall of sound and its lyrics, revolving around the chorus: "Could you take my picture? / 'Cause I won't remember", lends it a surreal and dreamlike aura. This has caused many to interpret the meaning of the song as something other than the intention for which it was originally conceived.
Filter's frontman, and founding member Richard Patrick has said that the song is about him getting drunk on an airplane, taking off all of his clothes, and fighting with the flight attendants who tried to stop him. This would account for the introductory, and later-repeated, lyrics: "Awake on my airplane, awake on my airplane...my skin is bare, my skin is bare."
A music video, directed by David Meyers, featured the band in a dreamlike sequence taking place in four different areas; a room being flooded by water, under the ocean with no scuba gear on, on a tiny rowboat in the middle of the ocean, and on the roof of a tiny cottage.
Filter played two years in a row at popular Washington, D.C./Baltimore radio station 99.1 WHFStival in which their first year's performance in September of 1999 they left out this song, but due to its popularity and mass requests as stated all day during the second year's performance in May of 2000 they played the song as the closer to much avail.
Former Smashing Pumkins bassist Darcy Wretzky provided backing vocals on this track.
The song crossed over to Top 40 radio (it reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 25, 2000, after reaching the Top 40 on December 14, 1999). In addition, the song hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on January 25.
The song peaked at #8 on the New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart on February 28, 2000.
The song has been featured in numerous motion pictures, including The Girl Next Door, Saving Grace, and Little Nicky.