one way or another

"One Way or Another"
Single by Blondie from the album Parallel Lines
B-side	"Just Go Away"
Released	May, 1979
Format	Vinyl 7" single
Genre	Punk pop;New Wave
Length	3:31
Label	US Chrysalis
Writer	Deborah Harry Nigel Harrison
Producer	Mike Chapman
Blondie singles chronology
"Sunday Girl" (1979) "One Way or Another" (1979) "Dreaming" (1979)
Music sample
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"One Way or Another" is track number 2 from the 1978 album Parallel Lines by Blondie. The song was written by Deborah Harry and Nigel Harrison. It was released as a single in the U.S. as the follow-up to "Heart of Glass", where it reached number 24 in the American Billboard Hot 100 charts. It was never officially released in the UK nor many other countries, but remains one of the group's most popular songs worldwide. The song was included on the US and Canadian versions of the band's first hits compilation, The Best of Blondie, in 1981 - but not on the international releases.

Track listing

US 7" Chrysalis Records CHS 2236, May 1979
Side A:

• "One Way or Another" (Nigel Harrison, Deborah Harry) – 3:31

Side B:

• "Just Go Away" (Deborah Harry) – 3:21

Remakes/Covers

• This is the theme song to the UK television drama Sugar Rush
• Blondie themselves re-recorded the song as the theme for the 1999 U.S. TV series Snoops. The song was released in the U.S. as a bonus track on their album Livid (Live).
• Bloodhound Gang incorporated the chorus in their song "One Way" from their album Use Your Fingers.
• Brooklyn hardcore hip hop rapper, Necro, incorporated the chorus in his X-rated song "One Way or Another".
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor re-recorded it for the soundtrack to the film The Guru.
• Melissa Joan Hart takes part in a 'Battle Of The Bands' competition by performing the song in an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
• CSS did a mash-up of the song with "Teenage Kicks" by The Undertones on their 2004 independent EP "Em Rotterdam Já É Uma Febre/A Onda Mortal".
• Piper Perabo sings along to the jukebox to stop a barfight in Coyote Ugly.
• It can be heard in the background of the movie Mean Girls when Cady (Lindsay Lohan) carries out her revenge.
• Mandy Moore performed it on her covers album Coverage.
• Mandy Moore also performed it for the movie Aquamarine starring Emma Roberts, Sara Paxton and Joanna "JoJo" Levesque; all three singers.
• It was also used in the Baileys TV adverts where the woman kissed the blokes to find out who drank the Baileys.
• Kristen Bell also performed this song as a karaoke ode to the Tritons, a secret society of her fictional high school, in an episode of Veronica Mars.
• In the season one episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Too Tough To Die", Jorja Fox's character Sara Sidle sings the chorus of this song while processing evidence.
• No Doubt have performed it live.
• Angelica Pickles sings a slightly altered version in The Rugrats Movie.
• The song was used in the video game "Driver: Parallel Lines" which was also the name of the album which the song is off.
• It is the theme song of the 2007 Israeli series Haex Hamitology.

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