![]() “Blue Orchid” appears on the album Get Behind Me Satan. And what can you do besides ask “How dare you?” Here are things ruined, degraded, coming apart, fallen. David Lynch would be proud.Īs weird as the video seems, it does give a more dismal interpretation to the song. A dilapidated house, a red-head wearing lace and impossibly high heels, Jack and a piano with its guts ripped out, a white apple, Meg drumming on stacks of dishes, a white horse, and Jack’s cane that becomes….well, just watch. White has commented that he sees the entire record as an exploration of “characters and the ideal of truth.” Something better than nothing, it’s giving up So is Jack singing about Satan or about a really wicked woman? It would seem that whoever it is, he or she has the power/ability to screw up (with pretty malicious intentions) something that was once good: Although “Blue Orchid” opens the album Get Behind Me Satan, and the words “get behind me” are in the song, Satan is never specifically mentioned. While the music may be somewhat simple, the lyrics are a very different story. ![]() The same thing happened to me after hearing the opening riff in “Blue Orchid.” Several days ago I played “Seven Nation Army” (from Elephant) for this friend of mine and he was humming it the rest of the day. Not many people can do that, and even fewer can do it on a consistent basis. I haven’t listened to all the White Stripes albums (although I’d like to), but from what I have heard, Jack and Meg do a masterful job of writing fairly simple melodies that stay in your head for days after you hear them. (To my less-than-expert hearing it appears that White has added a second guitar that’s just slightly behind the other track, adding a little more power and energy.) I don’t say this in a derogatory way, only to note that when you isolate the song’s elements, you’ve got Jack White’s falsetto vocal, distorted guitar riffs (not even chords) and drums. The song is raw, unrefined, driving, loud, hard to ignore. To someone now in his 40’s, it still provides a pretty good kick. “Blue Orchid” is the type of song that, as Stephen King says, would’ve “turned my dials all the way up to 10” in high school. This section requires expansionwith: Writers and lengths.“Blue Orchid” by The White Stripes (2005) The song is also playable in the music video game Guitar Hero 5. The song can also be heard in the movie, The Green Hornet, which is directed by Michel Gondry who also directed many other music videos for The White Stripes. The song is used as the theme song for the Australian Radio Show Wil & Lehmo on Triple M it is also used briefly in the trailer for the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud, in which Jack White features with other musical artists The Edge and Jimmy Page. The vocals from the song, "You took a white orchid, you took a white orchid and turned it blue" are repeated at various points throughout the track. It features the main guitar riff accompanied by a largely drum and bass inspired backing beat. It is the first track on the second disc of the album. "Blue Orchid" has been remixed by High Contrast on the album Fabric Live 25. The video, which was directed by Floria Sigismondi, ends with a horse, its hooves raised in the air, about to stomp on Elson, but just before the hooves land on her, the video quickly goes black, ending. ![]() It features Karen Elson, a model who would marry Jack White soon after the shoot. The video for "Blue Orchid" was on Yahoo!'s Top Twenty Scariest Music Videos of all Time, charting at number 13. He has denied that the song relates to the ending of his relationship with Renée Zellweger. In an NPR interview, Jack White referred to "Blue Orchid" as the song that saved the album. The second CD version features 'Jack' on the left. The first CD and the 7" feature the couple in the same order as Get Behind Me Satan, with 'Jack' on the right. ![]() All three covers feature two people dressed up as The White Stripes, but are noticeably different people. The single comes in three editions, each with different additional tracks. Live, the sound is produced by a bass-rich guitar tone, used in combination with Whammy Pedal and the POG to create the heavily metallic sounding breaks of the song ("How dare you, how old are you now anyway" and "get behind me, get behind me now anyway".). The recorded sound is produced by playing a guitar into an Electro-Harmonix creation, the Polyphonic Octave Generator (POG).
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