"Dull Boy" is a single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from Mudvayne

Mudvayne

Mudvayne is an American heavy metal band. Their work is marked by the use of sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate visual appearance, which has included face and body paint, masks and uniforms...

's 2007

2007 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.-January:*January 1 - George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame...

 album By the People, For the People

By the People, for the People

- Personnel :* Chad Gray – vocals* Greg Tribbett – guitar* Ryan Martinie – bass* Matthew McDonough – drums* Dave Fortman – production-Chart positions:AlbumSingles...

, later included on the band's 2008

2008 in music

2008 was a huge year in music history with the emergence of pop superstars Lady Gaga and Katy Perry into the mainstream. Also, this is the year that is widely agreed upon by critics as the start of the fall of hip hop from the mainstream and the rise of Synthpop into the mainstream due to acts such...

 studio album The New Game

The New Game

- Deluxe songs :- Personnel :* Chad Gray − vocals* Greg Tribbett − guitars, backing vocals* Ryan Martinie − bass* Matthew McDonough − drums* Dave Fortman − producer, mixing- Chart positions :AlbumSingles...

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The Shining

At the beginning of the song, Chad Gray

Chad Gray

Chad Gray , is the lead vocalist for the American heavy metal bands Mudvayne and Hellyeah.-Personal life:Gray is the son of Dan and Mitzi Gray of Edgewater, Florida...

 repeats "All work and no play makes me a dull boy

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is a proverb. It means that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring.-History:...

" four times, elevating his voice from a whisper to a scream with each repetition. This is a reference to The Shining

The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. A writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an...

. The band has stated in numerous interviews that Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

 is Mudvayne's favorite director.

Video

For the video the band made a green screen contest in which they record themselves in a green screen and upload it to their website so that anyone can do their own version of the video and upload it.

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	17