Watching the CFL game and they played a clip from a video........had to find out what it was. Great song....
Talk
A native of
Ottawa, Durocher has been active in the music business for a number of years, including a stint as a bassist in a
country band, but had limited success prior to the early 2020s. Out of work, he was forced to move back to his parents' basement in the Ottawa neighbourhood of
Stittsville in 2020 during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
[2] Feeling lonely and depressed, he wrote "Run Away to Mars" overnight after watching the film
Interstellar.
[1]
He released the song in June 2021 as his debut single,
[3] and followed up in November with the EP
Talk to Me. "Run Away to Mars" was moderately successful at first, but received a boost in 2022 when it went viral on
TikTok, hitting the streaming charts in several countries.
[1] By January 2023, the song had reached #1 on
Billboard's
Adult Alternative charts.
[4] It also reached a peak of 22 on the
Canadian Hot 100 chart.
[5]