| "Us" | |||||
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| Single by
Regina Spektor from the album Soviet Kitsch |
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| Format | 7" vinyl, CD single, digital download | ||||
| Genre | Anti-folk, Alternative pop | ||||
| Length | 4:54 | ||||
| Label | Transgressive/WEA | ||||
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"Us" is the second single from Regina Spektor's UK compilation album Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories, although it was originally released on her 2004 album Soviet Kitsch. The song is notable for its use of violin in addition to Spektor's usual piano and vocals.
Releases
| Year | Label | Format | Catalog no. | Country | B-sides |
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| 2006 | Transgressive | CD single | 018 | UK | "Scarecrow & Fungus" |
| 2005 | Transgressive | 7" vinyl | 018 | UK | "Scarecrow & Fungus"/"December" |
| 2006 | WEA | Digital download | ? | UK | "Scarecrow & Fungus"/"December" |
Video
This is the first Regina Spektor song to have an accompanying music video. It shows Spektor climbing into a dark green room and unpacking an assortment of objects from a trunk, including a piano, rug, a globe, and some seeds, which she places on the rug and grows with water. The video contains some bizarre scenes, such as toy soldiers coming out of Spektor's mouth, and ends with her placing everything (including herself) back into the trunk, which vanishes. It is notable for its heavy use of stop motion animation. The music video is a parody of Georges Méliès' silent film, Le Locataire Diabolique (1909), in which a man rents an apartment and furnishes it by unpacking objects from his trunk in the same fashion Spektor does in Us.
The video was directed by Adria Petty.
| Regina Spektor |
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| Albums:
11:11 ·
Songs ·
Soviet Kitsch ·
Live at Bull Moose EP ·
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers
and Other Short Stories by Regina Spektor · Begin to Hope Songs: "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men" · "Carbon Monoxide" · "Us" · "On the Radio" · "Fidelity" Other articles: The Strokes |
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