Fell In Love With a Girl

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Fell In Love With a Girl is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their third album, White Blood Cells. It was released as a single in April 2002.

Track Listing

CD

• 1. "Fell In Love With a Girl" (White/White)
• 2. "Let's Shake Hands" (White/White)
• 3. "Lafayette Blues" (White/White)

7"

• 1. "Fell In Love With a Girl" (White/White)
• 2. "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" (B. Bacharach/H. David)

Facts

• The video has been awarded 3 MTV Music Awards for Best Editing, Best Special Effects and Breakthrough Video.

Covers

• Comedy musician and parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic sang a polka version of this and included it in a medley of other rock songs he covered called "Angry White Boy Polka".

Lyrics

I'm gonna fight 'em off
a seven nation army couldn't hold me back
they're gonna rip it off
taking their time right behind my back
and I'm talking to myself at night
because I can't forget
back and forth through my mind
behind a cigarette
and the message coming from my eyes
says leave it alone

don't want to hear about it
every single one's got a story to tell
everyone knows about it
from the queen of england to the hounds of hell
and if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
and that ain't what you want to hear
but that's what I'll do
and the feeling coming from my bones
says find a home

I'm going to wichita
far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
make the sweat drip out of every pore
and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
right before the lord
all the words are gonna bleed from me
and I will think no more
and the stains coming from my blood
tell me go back home

Video

The music video for Fell In Love With a Girl skyrocketed The White Stripes to fame. It is one of the band's most infamous music videos, and it is largely considered their best. The video was directed by Michel Gondry (who directed the Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground video and would also later direct the videos for The Hardest Button to Button and The Denial Twist), and showed The White Stripes and other various places and figures as Legos.

Director Michel Gondry used a combination of computer animation and a sort of claymation type method for this one. The duo were shot on the streets of London with extremely heavy makeup. There were also blue screen scenes shot then picked the scenes that could be rendered in Lego. The process took 15 animators more than six weeks to complete. So basically you have a really heavy pixilated effect applied to live footage of the band combined with a more primitive animation with legos. An interesting side note is the first meeting between the director and the band. "One day he came to a restaurant and he had Jack's head in Lego," explained Meg White. 'This is what I want to do for the video; it's perfect, really," Jack said Gondry told them. "You couldn't argue with that. When someone brings a Lego sculpture of your head to dinner and says this is what the video's going to be, you pretty much say, 'That's it, go ahead.' "

Video awards

• Nominated - Visionary Video - VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
• Nominated - Best Video of The Year - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
• Won - Breakthrough Video - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
• Won - Best Special Effects - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
• Won - Best Editing - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl

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