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"Good Luck" is a song by the American indie rock duo Broken Bells, released as a non-album single on September 27 2019 through AWAL. It was the band's first song since the 2018 standalone single "Shelter". James Mercer and Danger Mouse released a joint statement, saying they "wanted to release ‘Good Luck’ while it felt timely and reflective of specific discussions between the two of us, questioning the state of things".

Critical reception
"Good Luck" received positive reviews from music critics.

Composition
"Dead Bent" samples the drums from Boogie Down Productions' 1987 song "Super Hoe". "Gas Drawls" is based on samples of Steely Dan's 1977 song "Black Cow". "Hey!" is built on samples of the intro to the 1972 cartoon series The New Scooby-Doo Movies, including samples of the voices of the Mystery, Inc. gang and of Scooby-Doo himself.

Radio host DJ Stretch Armstrong stated in 2019 that Doom recorded the album versions of these songs in his apartment, borrowing his Akai MPC2000 and sleeping on his couch for three weeks while working on the tracks.

"Dead Bent"
Adam Bhala Lough directed the video for "Dead Bent" in late 2000 while attending New York University, with future Bomb the System director Ben Rekhi acting as cinematographer. The video, shot on 16 mm film, shows two side-by-side uninterrupted shots of Doom going from a room in Lough's East Village, Manhattan apartment down to a deli on the street to steal some fruit and run off; one shot shows the events happen in real time while the other has them happen in reverse order.

"Gas Drawls"
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Personnel
Credits are adapted from the single's label.


 * M.F. Doom (for Master of the Zeroes, Inc.) – production, mixing, arranging, flipping

Legacy
Los Angeles rapper Murs called the single version of "Dead Bent" his "favorite song of all time", citing the original's dirtiness in comparison to the re-recorded album version. In a 2021 article for Vulture, rapper Open Mike Eagle called the 12" version of "Dead Bent" "immediately striking"; in the same article, rapper Pete Nice said, "the record was bubbling; 'Hey!' was a huge underground hit in [the hip hop] community." In an interview with Cipha Sounds and Paul Rosenberg on their podcast Juan Ep Is Dead, Bobbito Garcia said the single "[got] people's attention right off the bat, and the success of that 12" led to us releasing other 12"'s and then eventually [putting] out [Operation: Doomsday]."