Porcelain (song)
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| Single by Moby featuring Pilar Basso | |||||||||
| from the album Play | |||||||||
| B-side | "Flying Over the Dateline", "Summer" | ||||||||
| Released | June 12, 2000 | ||||||||
| Format | CD, 12" | ||||||||
| Genre | Electronica, ambient, downtempo | ||||||||
| Length |
3:32 (single version) 4:02 album version) 3:08 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Mute | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Moby | ||||||||
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"Porcelain" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, featured as the third track and released as the sixth single from his album Play. It was released on June 12, 2000 in the UK, and reached number 5 in the UK charts, Moby's highest chart position there to date.[1] The U.S. release was released two months later, on August 22, although the song was first featured in the 1998 film Playing by Heart. It also appeared on the soundtrack to the 2000 film The Beach.
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[edit] Composition
Porcelain contains pulsating electronically enhanced string samples, piano rhythms, and wandering vocal solos. The beginning is a reverse sound of sampled strings, taken from "Fight for Survival" by Ernest Gold.[2] This is uncredited in the album liner notes. Moby performs vocals, with additional vocals by Pilar Basso.
[edit] Music videos
There are three different music videos for this song.
The Jonas Åkerlund-directed version features a close-up of a person's eye and images within it resembling a reflection. This reflection is mostly of Moby singing the song but also includes a variety of people, both adults and children smiling, a baby, and a close-up of a hand playing some of the piano parts of the song.
The Nick Brandt-directed version features Moby sitting in the back seat of a moving car but no one in the driving seat; the car travels through a town, a long open road, off the road into a forest then finally through hilly fields containing cows. The car narrowly misses crashing at times along the way.
Another music video is from a long take. It is directed by Robert Stoetzel. The video displays the connections and relationships people have throughout the video. A police officer is shown viewing the bay from the start, leaving for coffee, and then returning to his spot. During the time he is gone relations with people change. A women who had rejected a man at the beginning of the video is seen kissing him towards the end. This music video was shot at a small bay area in the town of Manasquan, which is located in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart (2000) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] | 56 (I) |
| Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[4] | 6 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 40 Wallonia)[5] | 2 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 68 |
| French Singles Chart | 99 |
| German Singles Chart | 63 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 26 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 17 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 79 |
| UK Singles Chart | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 18 |
(I): In Australia, the song was released as an A-side with "Honey".
[edit] References
- ^ "Porcelain by Moby". Songfacts. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=16149. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/25539/Moby-Porcelain_Ernest%20Gold-Fight%20for%20Survival/
- ^ "Top 100 Singles - Week Commencing 1st January 2001". pandora.nla.gov.au. Archived from the original on 2006. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020221-0000/www.aria.com.au/issue566.PDF. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Moby – Porcelain" (in Dutch). Ultratip. ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Moby – Porcelain" (in French). Ultratop 40. Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
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