"Jesus Stole My Girlfriend" is a song by the Australian rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Violent Soho

Violent Soho

Violent Soho are a band from Brisbane, Queensland. The band formed in 2004. They are a quartet, with Luke Boerdam on guitar/vocals, James Tidswell on guitar/vocals, Luke Henery on bass and Michael Richards on drums...

. It was the first single from their self-titled debut

Violent Soho (album)

Violent Soho is the second official studio album of Violent Soho, released on March 9, 2010 on the Ecstatic Peace label. The album contains much of the material off of their first album, We Don't Belong Here, though it has been re-recorded with changes made to some of the songs...

, and is arguably the most well known song by the band. The song is originally found on the album We Don't Belong Here

We Don't Belong Here

We Don't Belong Here is Violent Soho's first studio album, released on June 7, 2008 on the Magic Dirt imprint, Emergency Music. Many of the tracks on the album were remastered and re-written for Violent Soho's self-titled album, which is considered by many to be the band's first proper album.-Track...

, but was re recorded (along with much of the material from the album) for their self-titled record. Interviews with the band (as well as lyrics) suggest that the song is about one of the band members' girlfriends leaving them for the devotion of Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

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Music videos

There are two official music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s for 'Jesus Stole My Girlfriend'. The first of the two depicts the band playing in what appears to be a garage or basement, in very cold weather.

A second video was shot outside of Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, all in one constant three minute shot. Many pedestrians and movie goers in the area are filmed, including one couple that are both dressed up as Superman

Superman

Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...

. Some shots include members of the band playing their instruments on the sidewalk outside of the theater.

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak position
2010	Billboard Alternative Songs	21
2010	Billboard Rock Songs Rock Songs Rock Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the airplay of songs on alternative, mainstream rock and triple A radio stations. The first chart was published in the issue dated June 20, 2009. "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day was the first number-one song. The Rock Songs...	35