The song is performed with the sole accompaniment being the sound produced by harmonizer, creating an altered a cappella sound.
Contents
- * 1 Television
- * 2 Other appearances
- * 3 Charts
- * 4 Mixes
- * 5 Release history
- * 6 References
Television
The song gained popularity after being featured as background music on the American television series The O.C., later parodied in a 2007 Saturday Night Live Digital Short called The Shooting. In the short, characters cut each other's sentences off by pulling out guns and shooting each other as the refrain plays over their slow-motion deaths. NBC was unable to upload the clip to YouTube immediately after the show because it hadn't cleared the song, but fans uploaded it on their own, naming it "Dear Sister". It became an Internet phenomenon, spawning a number of parodies in which scenes of real and fictional violence are punctuated with the refrain.[1]
The song also appears in the films The Last Kiss and Warren Miller's Off the Grid. It has also been featured in the series So You Think You Can Dance, Smith, The L Word, The Real World: Sydney, and CSI: Miami.
The single was certified gold by the RIAA on 3 April 2009.
Other appearances
This section does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2010)
Heap arranged an alternate version of the song, labeled "Hide and Seek 2", for the compilation album Songs for Tibet — The Art of Peace.
British alternative rock band, Fightstar covered the song as a B-Side to their single, The English Way. This is performed solely by lead singer Charlie Simpson on Vocals and Piano. The Christian crunkcore band And Then There Were None (band) has also covered the song.
DJ Wich's "What We Need" featuring Glasses Malone and Lil Wayne from his 2008 album The Golden Touch samples Heap's song.
Jason Derülo's 2009 single "Whatcha Say" prominently sampled Heap's song. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100.[2]
Canadian acoustic guitarist Antoine Dufour performs a solo guitar arrangement of the song on his album Convergences. [3]
Charts
Year Chart Peak position
2005 UK Download Chart[4] 22
UK Singles Chart[4] 125
U.S. Hot Digital Songs 37
U.S. Pop 100 91
2006 UK Singles Chart[4] 140
2008 Hot Canadian Digital Singles 57
Mixes
* Album Version – 4:29
* Single Version – 4:16
* Radio Edit – 3:01
* Tiësto's In Search of Sunrise Remix – 8:32
Release history
Region Date
United States 19 May 2005
United Kingdom 26 September 2005
References
1. ^ Cohen, Noam (2007-05-07). "Taking Violence to a New, Technological Absurdity". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/technology/07link.html. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
2. ^ http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3750/top2fm.jpg
3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNPCI8y9avc
4. ^ a b c Chart Log UK: M Zobbel.de
No comments:
Post a Comment