![]() ![]() It'd be ridiculous for us to change now and employ a five- piece orchestra," said Jack White last year, in a quote that made even his dreams of grandeur sound pinched and ascetic: a five-piece orchestra? "The methods we use, and the instrumentation, have always been purposely constrictive. Only the White Stripes, however, won't budge from their austere approach to rock and roll as a point of aesthetic principle. Coldplay won't mess with their epic ballad formula due to eyes-on-the-prize avarice: don't rock the boat and U2's biggest-band-in-the-world crown could be yours. Oasis won't leave the Beatles impersonations behind out of loyalty to their lumpen fan-base, who think that musical progression is for softies. The one thing that binds them, apart from their serried release dates and the weight of public expectation, is the fact that all are by artists that stubbornly refuse to move on. The three biggest albums of the year will all be on the shelves by Monday. The song is also playable in the music video game Guitar Hero 5.O ne thing rock music doesn't seem to care for in 2005 is progression. Part of the song is also played in the second episode of Forces of Nature, a 2016 science documentary series aired on BBC One. ![]() 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). "Blue Orchid" is the first track by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes from their album Get Behind Me Satan, and the first single to be released from the album. ![]()
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