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}} ''Night Shades'' is the fourth studio album by American dance rock band Cobra Starship, being released through Fueled by Ramen and Decaydance Records on August 29, 2011. The album is the follow-up to 2009's ''Hot Mess''. The first single from the album, "You Make Me Feel...", features singer Sabi and was released on May 10, 2011. A music video has been created for it. The full album was made available to stream for free on their Facebook page prior to its release. The album debuted at number 50 on the ''Billboard'' 200 with sales of 9,000 in its first week, but plummeted to number 185 in its second week.〔(Billboard 200 Week of September 24, 2011 by Biggest Drop ) ''Billboard''. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 20, 2011.〕 Cobra Starship played pre-show on MTV's 2011 Video Music Awards and following their performance, their single "You Make Me Feel..." reached the top 10 of the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 to become their second top 10 hit at number seven.〔(Adele's 'Someone Like You' Soars To No. 1 On Hot 100 ) ''Billboard'' Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 20, 2011.〕 The band were the opening act for Justin Bieber in October through South America.〔(Cobra Starship Looks to Clean Up With 'Night Shades' ) ''Billboard''. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 20, 2011.〕 The third single "#1Night" has sold more than 91,000 downloads to date 2013.〔http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/1563134/hashtag-music-do-twitter-friendly-song-titles-make-a-difference〕 ==Background== The group's third album, ''Hot Mess'', released in 2009 by Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen, debuted at number four on the ''Billboard'' 200. It was powered by the smash lead single, "Good Girls Go Bad", which featured ''Gossip Girl'' actress Leighton Meester and peaked at number seven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 with more than 2 million copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. After the success, Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta said of the aftermath of ''Hot Mess'': "That caused me to lose my girlfriend, who I had been with since before Cobra started."〔 The band started writing ''Night Shades'' in September 2010, but during these initial sessions, Saporta wasn't happy with what they were coming up with. "We had a lot of songs that just felt uninspired to me," he says. "It felt like I was just doing it to do it, because that's what we do, we're a band." He confessed that his solution for inspiration was embarking on what he describes as a "spiritual detox" in South America. "I went on this, like, pretty crazy... I don't know if you call it a retreat, but I lived in a little house in the forest in Brazil, and all I ate was rice for 10 days."〔 In the end, the trip gave Saporta "clarity" and made him feel "rejuvenated"—two things he needed to survive the studio mishaps Cobra Starship experienced after he returned. First, the band set up shop in an abandoned floor of a building owned by a friend's family—but two weeks into recording, they were unexpectedly met by a demolition crew. Their next attempt at setting up studio space unwittingly ended up being adjacent to a place rented by a masseuse. Finally, the band found a home in a converted storage space on the ground floor of Saporta's building.〔 Once the band settled into their permanent digs, Saporta started delving into the issues he started dissecting in South America—and found a way to address them from a unique perspective. "When I was writing in September, the problem was () it was either uninspired or it was really depressing," he explains. "It was about the fact that I lost the love of my life. As much as I need to deal with that, I don't think the whole world needs to deal with that. It's very self-serving just for me to make a record for that. If I would have just written that without taking my spiritual detox in the jungle, we would have had a record that would've just been that."〔 Speaking of ''Night Shades'', Saporta commented, "This record might be the most commercial record, but also our most honest." Fueled by Ramen president John Janick was quoted as saying, "(Starship ) delivered an album that has the Cobra sound but delivers those radio records" and thought that "there are multiple singles on () album."〔 During an interview with Alicia Fiorletta from The Aquarium, Alex Suarez commented about the album:
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