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Circus (Lenny Kravitz song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Circus
| cover = Circus by Lenny Kravitz.webp
| caption =
| type = single
| artist = Lenny Kravitz
| album = Circus
| released = September 26, 1995
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Rock
| length = 4:48
| label = Virgin
| writer = Terry Britten, Gerry DeVeaux, Lenny Kravitz
| producer = Lenny Kravitz
| prev_title = Rock and Roll Is Dead
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = Can't Get You Off My Mind
| next_year = 1995
| misc =
}}
"'Circus'" is a song written and recorded by American singer Lenny Kravitz and released on September 26, 1995, as the second single from his fourth studio album 'Circus'. There are two music videos for the song: one directed by Ruven Afanador and the other by Martyn Atkins.
Reception
Kravitz explained to 'Billboard', "it gets more like a circus with all this suffmanagement people, fans, bankers, investment people. It's like, My God! What happened? It gets harder to be yourself." Mark Kemp of 'Rolling Stone' stated, "In the title track of Lenny Kravitz's new album, the singer struggles with the dictates of reality that come to bear on fantasy. "Welcome to the real world," he sings to himself. But in the real world according to Kravitz, rock stars still flash diamond rings and coke spoons, and bumper-sticker platitudes like god is love still soften the blows of the real real world."
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