2001Released
1:50

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This song discusses the distinction between real love and lust, with an inside look at Jack White's inner dialogue as he has a tryst with a girl who might still be dating his friend Bobby. The left side of his brain knows this is just a fling, but the right side is convinced he's in love - these lobes need to have a meeting and sort it all out!

"Fell In Love With A Girl" packs a lot into its 1:50 run time. Jack White is singing the whole time, with two wordless breaks ("Aah, aah, aah, aah...") that could be considered the chorus. The group, which split in 2011, had just two members - singer/guitarist Jack and drummer Meg White - but they could raise quite a ruckus with their throwback garage rock sound typically devoid of bass. This being 2001, they didn't have much of a chance on the pop charts, which were dominated by R&B, teen pop, and Nickelback. But they did build a following in Detroit (Rock City!) and in the UK, where the finicky music press fawned all over them. In America, "Fell In Love With A Girl" was their first song to chart, peaking at #121 in May 2002, well over a year after it appeared on their third album, White Blood Cells. In the UK, where they had previously charted with "Hotel Yorba," it reached #21 in March 2002. The band caught on in America with their next album, Elephant, in 2003, thanks to the single "Seven Nation Army."

The video for "Fell In Love With A Girl" is one of the most innovative of all time, made mostly with Legos. The director is Michel Gondry, whose mind works in mysterious ways - he did the bonkers videos for "Human Behaviour" by Björk and "Everlong" by Foo Fighters, and also directed the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Gondry came up with the concept, presenting it to the duo by showing them a Lego creation of Jack White's head. A crew of 15 worked on the video for about two months, first shooting Jack and Meg going through the motions as storyboarded, then printing up pixilated images for each frame of film - 25 per second. Then they built the lego models and shot them in stop motion, combining those with some animated frames to piece it all together. Only white, black, blue, red and yellow bricks - the original Lego colors - were used. This was fitting because The White Stripes stuck to a color palette of white, black and red. At the MTV video music awards, it won for Breakthrough Video, Best Special Effects, and Best Editing, but lost Video Of The Year to "Without Me" by Eminem.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Fell In Love With a Girl.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
192BPM

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XL Recordings
2001 XL Recordings Ltd
2001 XL Recordings Ltd

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