1901

"1901" is a song about Paris. Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars explained: "Paris in 1901 was better than it is now. So the song is a fantasy about Paris."

Phoenix is a French rock band but most of their songs are in English, giving them a wider appeal. The lyrics don't always make a lot of sense, but they serve the music, supporting the groove phonetically on stadium rockers like this one. That's how we end up with lines like: Now the future's sorted out Watch her moving in elliptical pattern The chorus is just the words "fold it" repeated over and over (at least that's what the published lyrics say).

Phoenix singer Thomas Mars told the Washington DC free newspaper Express: "Anthems are good. '1901' really worked because we wrote almost all the song in 10 minutes, but it took us almost a year to finish it. We had the idea of the verse, and the chorus, the bridge, the rhythm, all the arrangements and everything, and then it was really hard to finish. So, I think you can feel there's something more sophisticated, maybe a production that's maybe new to us."