Fell In Love With a Girl (Youtube)Even before I gas about the song, here's a mention for the cracking video. Constructed with Lego (RTM) and directed by the fabulous Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine: woop)
The song is simple. A crunching riff on loop, occasional abrupt halting and a sprinkling of Jack White going “aaah-ah-ah –aah-aah” all neatly wrapped up by a final chord all before even a hundred and twenty seconds has had a chance to pass.
What I really like about the song, along with the confident “hey guess what I’m here!” then leaving way before it has any chance of becoming boring, is the words. Firstly there’s the cute as a button girl in love with the world and how much “Jack” knows it’s not smart (sometimes these feelings can be so misleading/my left brain knows that love is fleeting) to care so much for her. I also dig the subtle allusion to Jack White’s Rita Hayworth fetish (red hair with a curl) which then gets a full outing in Get Behind Me Satan. But most of all I just love the response to a question no bloke ever really answers properly:
“Are you alright?”
“I must be fine, ‘cause my heart’s still beating”
Laters yar.
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