Fell in Love with a Girl
| Fell in Love with a Girl | |
|---|---|
| The White Stripes | |
| publication | April 23, 2002 |
| length | 1:50 min. |
| Genre (s) | Garage rock |
| Author (s) | Jack White |
| Publisher (s) | Sympathy for the Record Industry , V2 Records , Third Man Records , XL Recordings |
| album | White Blood Cells |
| Cover version | |
| 2004 | Joss Stone |
Fell in Love with a Girl is a song by the American garage rock band The White Stripes . It was released as the second single from the band's third album, White Blood Cells , in 2002.
The magazine Rolling Stone took Fell in Love with a Girl in May 2007 in its list of "40 songs that changed the world" on. In 2011, New Musical Express magazine ranked the song 6th of the 150 best tracks of the past 15 years .
The video for Fell in Love with a Girl - a stop-motion animation with Lego bricks - has won several awards.
Chart placements
Fell in Love with a Girl reached # 21 on the UK Top 40 and # 21 on Billboard Magazine's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart . The piece was not placed in Germany.
Music video
Stop motion animation
The music video for Fell in Love with a Girl is a stop-motion animation with LEGO bricks (see also Brickfilm ), produced by Michel Gondry .
In the entrance scene, you can see his son building with Lego bricks. In the stop-motion sequences that then begin, you see Jack White singing (head or mouth in close-up ), Meg White playing the drums, two red-clad people walking through the picture, Jack White - recreated with Lego bricks that were lined up to form moving images Playing the guitar, an approaching subway, various moving ornaments, traffic signs, a swimming person and other details. The colors red, white, yellow, black and blue of the Lego blocks and the rapidly changing arrangement of the blocks determine the visual impression of the video. "The music of the White Stripes [...] is so spartan that it seemed sufficient to work with 3 primary colors," says Gondry.
The frames have been with a 16-mm - Bolex photographed camera. In a sequence of a few seconds, the moving Lego bricks are represented by computer simulation.
production
In an interview, Jack White described that the White Stripes' longstanding collaboration with Michel Gondry began with a mishap. White originally wanted with Mark Romanek work together of the video for Devil's Haircut by Beck had produced. However, his record company mistakenly hired Gondry. White also agreed, as he also liked his video for another Beck song ( Deadweight ).
The request to Lego for Lego bricks was refused; therefore, a large number of Lego bricks had to be purchased to produce the video. The work on the video took two months.
Another idea did not come about either: The White Stripes turned to Lego with the idea of attaching a small packet of Lego bricks to each single to be sold , with which Jack and Meg White could have been recreated in Lego. Lego declined with the explanation: "We do not market our products to people over the age of twelve." After the video became very successful, Lego turned to the White Stripes with the request to let the agreement come about, which Jack did White refused, however.
Awards
The video won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2002: Breakthrough Video , Best Special Effects in a Video, and Best Editing in a Video, and received a nomination for Video of the Year , which was won by Without Me ( Eminem ). At the award ceremony - Gondry was unable to attend - Jack White said: “He is brilliant. It was all his idea. "
The online music magazine Pitchfork Media considered it the best video of the decade. The American magazine Entertainment Weekly included it in its "Best List of the Decade" (" Rock 'n' Roll Legos!")
reception
The video was picked up and parodied in the episode Ocean's Three and a Half of the American cartoon series Family Guy .
Cover version of Joss Stone
The British soul singer Joss Stone covered the song in 2003 under the title Fell in Love with a Boy , on her album The Soul Sessions (2003) and reached number 66 in the German single charts .
More apparitions
- The White Stripes: The Acoustic Album (2006), Virgin
- As downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band (2010).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 40 Songs That Changed The World on listoftheday.blogspot.de
- ↑ 6: The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl on nme.com
- ↑ a b c Alex Hammaford: The White Stripes. Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2006, without page numbers, ISBN 978-3-896027221 .
- ↑ a b c DVD The Work of Director Michel Gondry , EMI Electrola, 2003.
- ↑ Fell In Love With a Girl on songfacts.com
- ↑ screenshot-online , accessed July 31, 2012.
- ^ The Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s pitchfork.com
- ↑ Thom Geier, Jeff Jensen, Tina Jordan, Margaret Lyons, Adam Markovitz, Chris Nashawaty, Whitney Pastorek, Lynette Rice, Josh Rottenberg, Missy Schwartz, Michael Slezak, Dan Snierson, Tim Stack, Kate Stroup, Ken Tucker, Adam B. Vary , Simon Vozick-Levinson, Kate Ward (December 11, 2009), THE 100 Greatest MOVIES, TV SHOWS, ALBUMS, BOOKS, CHARACTERS, SCENES, EPISODES, SONGS, DRESSES, MUSIC VIDEOS, AND TRENDS THAT ENTERTAINED US OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS . Entertainment Weekly. (1079/1080): 74-84.
- ↑ Joss Stone on mariah-charts.com, accessed on January 19 of 2008.
- ↑ The White Stripes Add Three More Tracks To Rock Band! ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rockband.com, accessed October 4, 2010.
Remarks
- ↑ cf. also the video for The Hardest Button to Button
- ↑ Editing = cut (film)