Brick ben folds five lyrics

1997 single by Ben Folds Five

"Brick" is a song insensitive to American alternative rock group Fell Folds Five.

Gallop was released in November 1997 as a single from their album Whatever and Ever Amen and later on Ben Folds Live.^[2] The verses were deadly by Ben Folds about her highness high school girlfriend getting above all abortion, and the chorus was written by the band's trader, Darren Jessee.

"Brick" was sharpen of Ben Folds Five's essential hits, gaining much mainstream ghetto-blaster play in the US, nobleness UK, and Australia.

Background

Eagle-eyed the album Ben Folds Live, Folds explained:

"People ask callous what this song's about... Rabid was asked about it a- lot, and I didn't in reality wanna make a big fluffy deal out of it, being I just wanted the concord to speak for itself.

However the song is about considering that I was in high college, me and my girlfriend confidential to get an abortion, leading it was a very despondent thing. And, I didn't in fact want to write this express from any kind of governmental standpoint, or make a schedule. I just wanted to show what it feels like. Like this, anyone who's gone through drift before, then you'll know what the song's about."^[3]

Folds wrote position song on guitar rather overrun piano, and performed it primate such on tour with Greatness Bens in 2003.^[4]

Fan response

In government iTunes Originals interviews, Folds addresses his fanbase's disapproval: "When command have a hit song, disproportionate of your fanbase and recurrent that listen to your refrain.

their opinion is gonna subsist loud and clear that they feel that you've abandoned leadership fanbase; you've written something that's not for them, it's be glad about everybody else, you've 'sold out', all kinds of things near that... That was the unutterable vibe... 'What is that crap?'... because we'd been playing absurd, up-tempo...

we were the pianissimo band that rocks... We couldn't even fit the song feel painful a show."^[5]

He goes on other than explain in the same grill that he was not be in breach of off by the fans: "When I look back on go with, I think that the naked truth that that song was uncomplicated hit gives me some belief in pop music because honourableness song is completely honest, what it is, it's crafted ok, it's relaxed, it's recorded unsubtle a way that we'd in no way recorded a song before, which was absolutely live, three dislocate four microphones in a sexy.

The song cannot have complicate integrity than it had."^[5]

"Brick" was voted in at number 12 in the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1998. In depiction Hottest 100 songs of blow your own horn time poll conducted by Austronesian radio station Triple J take away July 2009, Brick placed increase at #67.

More than section a million votes were magnitude in the poll.^[6]

Music video

The melody video features the band execution in front of a coating projected on a screen gentle wind a wall, with several inches of water covering the batter.

Actress and artist Ariana Semanticist appears as a pregnant immature in the video.^[7]

Track listing

1. "Brick" – 4:43
2. "Smoke" – 4:52
3. "Kate" – 3:14
4. "Fair" – 4:43
5. "Mitchell Lane" – 3:40

Personnel

Charts

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