Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. 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 ranked on Yahoo!'s "Top 25 Spookiest Videos" ranking in 2005, charting at number 21. 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-inch 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). The music video, directed by Floria Sigismondi, was ranked number 21 on Yahoo!'s list of the "Top 25 Spookiest Videos" in 2005. Elsewhere, the song was a top-twenty hit in Denmark and Norway. In the United States, the song reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seven on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Commercially, the song topped the Canadian Singles Chart in June 2005 and reached the top 10 in the United Kingdom, peaking at number nine on the UK Singles Chart the same month. "Blue Orchid" was released to US rock radio on April 18, 2005. Lyrically, "Blue Orchid" is about White's longing for classical entertainment industries and the turmoil that the newer industries sent him through. Although it was suspected that Jack White wrote the song about his breakup with Renée Zellweger, he has denied this claim. " 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. The "I Won't Play the Fool" remix landed on the Top 10 Dance Remixes Chart of 1998 in Billboard magazine.For other uses, see Blue Orchid (disambiguation). The singles "At Night I Pray", " Talk to Me" and "Supernatural" all garnered substantial radio airplay, all appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.ĭance remixes of "Follow Me" and "I Won't Play the Fool" were released in May 1998 and became popular in underground clubs. The group even toured with 98 Degrees and 'N Sync across the U.S., Canada and Asia. Hard Copy, The HitList with Tarzan Dan, Vibe, Mad TV, The Pat Bullard Show, Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends, Terry Bradshaw, Crook and Chase, The Jenny Jones Show, Electric Circus and Goode Behavior. They made appearances on Soul Train, Ricki Lake, Access Hollywood, MTV, Wild On!, The RuPaul Show, Wild Orchid spent 19 promoting their debut album. The group also received an American Music Award for Favorite R&B/Soul Artist. The album also received two Billboard Music Award nominations for "Talk to Me" and two Soul Train Lady of Soul Award nominations - one for Album of the Year By a Group, Band or Duo and one for Best Music Video for "Talk to Me". The album debuted with its highest chart position in Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart at #153. However, it was postponed and was released on March 23, 1997, in the midst of the popularity of their second single "Talk to Me". They released their debut single "At Night I Pray" on September 3, 1996, with the album due for an Octorelease. The album took approximately nine months to complete. It is their most successful album.Īfter signing a recording contract with RCA Records, the trio wrote and recorded songs throughout 1995 with the help of Renee's songwriter brother Bobby Sandstrom. Wild Orchid is the self-titled debut album by American group Wild Orchid, released on March 23, 1997.
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