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| Single by Ben Folds Five from the album Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Live |
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| A-side | Brick | ||||
| B-side | Smoke (Live), Kate (Ska remix), Mitchell Lane | ||||
| Released | January 1, 1997 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Recorded | Sep 1996-Oct 1996 | ||||
| Genre | Piano rock | ||||
| Length | 4:31 | ||||
| Label | Epic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ben Folds, Darren Jessee | ||||
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"Brick" is a song performed by Ben Folds Five released on their 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen and later on Ben Folds Live[2]. Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Whatever and Ever Amen is the second Album by Ben Folds Five, released in 1997 Ben Folds Live is a live Album by Ben Folds, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s A CD single (abbreviated to CDS) is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Piano rock, sometimes referred to as piano pop, is a term for a style of Rock music that is based around the Piano, and sometimes around In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Epic Records is an American Record label. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American Singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the Band Ben Folds Five Darren Jessee (born 8 April 1971, Houston, Texas) was the Drummer for the rock group Ben Folds Five. Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. " Kate " is a song performed by Ben Folds Five released on their 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen. " Army " is an Alternative rock song by the band Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Whatever and Ever Amen is the second Album by Ben Folds Five, released in 1997 Ben Folds Live is a live Album by Ben Folds, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) The verses were written by Ben Folds about his high school girlfriend undertaking an abortion, and the chorus was written by Ben Folds Five's drummer, Darren Jessee. Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American Singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the Band Ben Folds Five An Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Darren Jessee (born 8 April 1971, Houston, Texas) was the Drummer for the rock group Ben Folds Five. "Brick" was one of Ben Folds Five's biggest hits, gaining much mainstream radio play in the USA, the UK, and Australia in 1998.
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Backstory
On the album Ben Folds Live, Folds explained: "People ask me what this song's about. Ben Folds Live is a live Album by Ben Folds, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) . . I was asked about it a lot, and I didn't really wanna make a big hairy deal out of it, because I just wanted the song to speak for itself. But the song is about when I was in high school, me and my girlfriend had to get an abortion, and it was a very sad thing. And, I didn't really want to write this song from any kind of political standpoint, or make a statement. I just wanted to reflect what it feels like. So, anyone who's gone through that before, then you'll know what the song's about. "[1]
On Ben Folds recent iTunes Originals compilation, he confesses that he had attempted to write a song about the abortion for quite some time, but he had trouble getting the song finished because it was too literal, but thanks to Darren Jessee's chorus, the song was given just enough mystique to be the hit that it was. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc Darren Jessee (born 8 April 1971, Houston, Texas) was the Drummer for the rock group Ben Folds Five. (Folds even jokes that "I've never understood a hit chorus. I wish I did. ")
Fan response
Many of Ben Folds Five's previous fans were put off by the hit's slower tempo, more serious themes, and popularity. Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This attitude to the song was once expressed by saying of it, "A song that you love at first because it's beautiful, then hate because it's popular, then love because it's beautiful. "[2]
In his iTunes Originals interviews, he addresses his fanbase's disapproval: "When you have a hit song, much of your fanbase and people that listen to your music. . . their opinion is gonna be loud and clear that they feel that you've abandoned the fanbase; you've written something that's not for them, it's for everybody else, you've 'sold out', all kinds of things like that. . . That was the overwhelming vibe. . . 'What is that crap?'. . . because we'd been playing silly, up-tempo. . . we were the piano band that rocks. . . We couldn't even fit the song into a show. "
He goes on to explain that he was not put off by the fans: "When I look back on it, I think that the fact that that song was a hit gives me some confidence in pop music because the song is completely honest, what it is, it's crafted well, it's relaxed, it's recorded in a way that we'd never recorded a song before, which was absolutely live, three or four microphones in a bedroom. The song cannot have more integrity than it had. "
Trivia
- Ariana Richards appears as a pregnant teen, in the music video of the song. Ariana Richards (born September 11, 1979) is an American actress and professional painter.
References
External links
- Lyrics to "Brick"
- "Brick" music video at YouTube
- "The Meaning of 'Brick'", Frank Maynard's Ben Folds Five Website
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