Music like Asking For It

"Asking for It" is a song by American rock band Shinedown. It was their third single off of their fifth album Threat to Survival. It peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2016.

The song was released as the third single from the band's fifth album Threat to Survival in April 2016. The song made its live national television debut in the same month, with the band performing the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Frontman Brent Smith noted that the song was the very first written and conceived during the Threat to Survival writing sessions. The fact that it was chosen for the album was a rarity; the band often writes 40–60 songs over the course of an album's writing sessions, and typically discards the earlier material. The song's music video, expanded beyond the length of the song and dubbed a "short film" by the band, pokes fun of the band and the music industry in general. The band desired to try to do something different and new that would stand out on YouTube, rather than just make a performance-based video, something the band felt was unoriginal and overdone.