"The Future Freaks Me Out"
Single by Motion City Soundtrack
from the album I Am the Movie
Released	17 November 2003 (Europe)
Recorded	2003
Genre	Pop punk, power pop, emo[1]
Length	3:36
Label	Epitaph
Songwriter(s)	Joshua Cain, Jesse Johnson, Matthew Taylor, Tony Thaxton, Justin Pierre
Producer(s)	Ed Rose
Motion City Soundtrack singles chronology
"Promenade/Carolina" (1999) "The Future Freaks Me Out" (2003) "My Favorite Accident" (2003)

"The Future Freaks Me Out" is a song by the pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack. It appears on the group's first album, I Am the Movie, and was released as the band's first single in Europe. "The Future Freaks Me Out" was released to radio on September 16, 2003.^[2]

The B-side for the CD single was "1000 Paper Cranes", which originally appeared on I Am the Movie (the version released by the band while unsigned) but was the only song missing for the Epitaph CD release.^[3]

The song has become a crowd favorite at Motion City Soundtrack shows.^{[citation needed]} It is usually played as the band's last song and is often sung in part by the audience.

Formats and track listings

• CD
  1. "The Future Freaks Me Out" (radio edit)
  2. "1000 Paper Cranes"
  3. "The Future Freaks Me Out" (album version) - 2:34
• 7" (limited to 1000 copies on picture disc)
  1. "The Future Freaks Me Out" - 2:34
  2. "My Valuable Hunting Knife (Guided by Voices cover)"

Music video

The video for "The Future Freaks Me Out" is a take on the movie Rushmore.^[4] It is set as a school play. There are many scenes depicted in it. They include the old west, an office, the ocean, a funeral and a concert. It is the second music video the band made. The guitarist Joshua Cain's family helped in the making of it, and star in it as well.