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‘Feels Like the Very Fourth Time’: Jimmy Kimmel’s New Oscars Ad Invokes Foreigner Hit


The Oscars tweak the title of a 1977 Foreigner hit, "Feels Like the FIrst Time," in an ad promoting the March 10, 2024 ceremony.

(L-R): Lou Gramm, Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Dennis Elliot of Foreigner photographed in 1977. “We decided to go all out this year and really try and get Foreigner on the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” Ronson said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Jones was the sole writer of such Foreigner hits as “Feels Like the First Time,” “Urgent,” “I Want to Know What Love Is” (which brought him a Grammy nod for song of the year) and “I Don’t Want to Live Without You” and teamed with Lou Gramm to co-write “Cold as Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Say You Will.” All of these songs reached the top 10 on the Hot 100.

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