Fell in Love with a Girl
April 23, 2002
Fell in Love with a Girl is a song by American garage rock band The White Stripes. It was as the second single of the third album of the band - published in 2002 - White Blood Cells.
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 the magazine New Musical Express ranked the song in 2011 at No. 6 of the 150 best titles of the last 15 years.
The video for Fell in Love with a Girl - a Stop Motion Animation with Lego bricks - has won several awards.
Chart positions
Fell in Love with a Girl reached number 21 of the UK Top 40 and also # 21 of the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts of Billboard Magazine. In Germany, the piece was not placed.
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 Brick film ), produced by Michel Gondry.
In the opening scene, his son is to see how he builds with Lego bricks. In the then incipient stop-motion sequences one sees - recreated with Lego blocks that have been ranked to moving images - Jack White singing ( head or mouth in close-up ), Meg White drum playing, two running through the picture red dressed people, Jack White playing guitar, a retracting subway [NB 1], various moving ornaments, traffic signs, a person can swim and more details. The colors red, white, yellow, black and blue of Lego bricks and the fast-changing arrangements of the stones determine the visual impression of the video. " The music of the White Stripes [ ... ] is so minimal that it seemed to me enough to work with three primary colors ," says Gondry.
The individual images were photographed with a 16mm Bolex camera. In a few seconds long sequence, the moving Lego bricks are shown by computer simulation.
Production
In an interview, Jack White described that the long-standing cooperation between the White Stripes with Michel Gondry began with a mishap. White originally wanted to work with Mark Romanek, who had produced the video for Devil 's Haircut by Beck. His record company but mistakenly hired Gondry. White was also agreed that he also liked the video to another song from Beck ( Deadweight ).
The request to Lego by Lego was rejected; Therefore, a large amount of Lego bricks had to be purchased for the production of the video. The work on the video lasted two months.
Also, another idea did not materialize: The White Stripes turned to adhere to any single to be sold, with the one Jack and Meg White in Lego could replicate in Lego with the idea of a small packet of Lego bricks. Lego declined with the explanation. "We do not market our products to people over the age of twelve " After the video was very successful, Lego turned his hand to the White Stripes with the request to have the agreement but yet come into being, what Jack White, however, refused.
Awards
The video won three MTV Video Music Awards 2002: Breakthrough Video, Best Special Effects in a Video and Best Editing [NB 2] in a Video and was nominated for video of the year, but from Without Me (Eminem ) obtained was. At the award ceremony - Gondry was prevented - äußerde Jack White: "He's brilliant. It was all his idea. "
The music online magazine Pitchfork Media held it for the best video of the decade. The American magazine Entertainment Weekly took it in his " Best of the Decade list " on ( "Rock ' n ' Roll Legos !")
Reception
The video was picked up in the episode Ocean's Three and a Half of American animated television series Family Guy and parodies.
Cover of Joss Stone
The British soul singer Joss Stone coverte the song in 2003 under the title Fell in Love with a Boy, on their album The Soul Sessions (2003), reaching number 66 in the German charts.
Other phenomena
- The White Stripes: The Acoustic Album ( 2006), Virgin
- As downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band (2010).