Young Folks
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| Single by Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman | |||||
| from the album Writer's Block | |||||
| B-side | "Ancient Curse" | ||||
| Released | June 2006 | ||||
| Format | CD single, 7" | ||||
| Genre | Indie pop | ||||
| Label | Wichita Recordings | ||||
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"Young Folks" is the first single from Peter Bjorn and John's third album, Writer's Block (released in 2006). The single features Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes as a guest vocalist. The chorus is based on the song, "Rich Folks Hoax" by Rodriguez. The melody of the verse has a lot in common with the so called "oriental riff", a short melody phrase often used in Western cultures to represent Asia.
The song first attracted notice on websites such as MySpace and YouTube, and was used in a number of European commercials and television shows. Only since mid-2007 has the song earned extensive airplay on American radio, most notably on dance radio outlets like KNHC/Seattle, KNGY/San Francisco and Sirius Satellite's "The Beat".
The song was ranked #5 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Tracks of 2006"[1] list. Pitchfork reviewed the song on 19 July 2006, giving it three out of five stars [1]. The song was also voted #2 in the 2006 NME Track of the Year poll.[2] Planet Sound named this their #2 single of 2006. The song was named the number one song of 2007 according to the iTunes Music Store. Y-Rock On XPN also named the song #1 of 2007.
On Peter Bjorn and John's recent Australian tour, Victoria Bergsman's vocals were performed by Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. The group performed the song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on 29 January 2007, and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 18 May 2007 (the latter with Tonight Show band member Vicki Randle on bongos). On 29 September 2007, the band played "Young Folks", with Victoria Bergsman's vocals, on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on BBC1.
The single was re-released on 17 September 2007, when it reached number 13 in the UK, beating the original chart position of number 33 in 2006.
The accompanying video was directed by Ted Malmros with animation by Graham Samuels.
The song is featured on the 2007 compilation album, Acoustic 07, the FIFA 08 soundtrack, and was also used in the E3 trailer of Lips, the video game. Gossip Girl also uses this track for its theme and it was featured in the 2008 motion picture "21".
From March 2009 the song is used in adverts for the UK DIY Retailer Homebase.
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[edit] Vinyl track listing
- "Young Folks" feat. Victoria Bergsman
- "Ancient Curse"
[edit] CD track listing
- "Young Folks" feat. Victoria Bergsman
- "Ancient Curse"
- "All Those Expectations"
[edit] Covers
- English indie band, The Kooks made a cover of "Young Folks" which is included in a CD album in a special box set issue of the music magazine, NME.
- German singer Nena covered "Young Folks" together with Oliver Pocher and Stephan Remmler in German as "Ich kann nix dafür" (German for "I have nothing to do with it") for the movie Vollidiot.
- Japanese singer Shugo Tokumaru covered the song in 2006 for the Cokemachineglow fantasy covers podcast. It was released as a single in Japan and received considerable airplay.
- Kanye West sampled this song for a track by the same name, and "Interviews (Interlude)" both on his mixtape Can't Tell Me Nothing.
- James Blunt covered this song in September 2007 on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. The performance was seen as poor.
[3] and later that month at KLLC's Now & Zen Fest [4].
- Dawn Landes has also covered this song.
- Pete Yorn often covers the song at his live shows.
- The Kooks and Little covered this song in May 2008 on Taratata (French TV show) [5].
- Richard & Judy 22 August 2008 Final in The End
- Breakbeat act Deekline & Ed Solo have also recorded a version of the song.
[edit] Use in Other Media
- Young Folks featured in a season 3 episode of Grey's Anatomy.
- Young Folks featured in the season 4 episode "Dawn Budge II" of Nip/Tuck.
- Young Folks featured in the season 2 episode "Monday Night Football" episode of How I Met Your Mother.
- Young Folks featured in the Pilot episode of Gossip Girl.
- Young Folks featured in the Second episode of Journeyman.
- Young Folks featured in the season 2 episode 2 of Paris Hilton's my new BFF
- The song featured in the pilot of Dirty Sexy Money
- It also featured in TV Spot for the movie The Love Guru
[edit] Music Video
A music video was created for Young Folks. The video is done in complete animation and is featured on the popular Singstar game series in Singstar Pop 2. It is also featured in the XBOX 360 game Lips_(video_game) The video starts off with Peter and Victoria sitting in a park, on a bench. Peter teaches Victoria how to whistle. Then the video switches over to them both sitting in a bus where the song starts.
Throughout the video scenes of the band playing the song can be seen and eventually the video ends with a big party where everybody "seems to disappear".
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ pitchforkmedia.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ NME news article. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle review Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
- ^ Taratata
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