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Girl's Not Grey
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Girl's Not Grey
| cover = AFI - Girl's Not Grey cover.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = AFI
| album = Sing the Sorrow
| released = January 12, 2003
| recorded = 2002
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| label = DreamWorks
| writer = David Paden Marchand
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| prev_title = The Days of the Phoenix
| prev_year = 2000
| next_title = The Leaving Song Pt. II
| next_year = 2003
}}
"'Girl's Not Grey'" is a song by American rock band AFI. It was released as the debut single from their sixth studio album 'Sing the Sorrow' in 2003. "Girl's Not Grey" was released to radio on February 4, 2003. It is the band's third most successful single, peaking at No. 7 on the Alternative Songs Chart and No. 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart. A music video directed by David Slade was made for the song.
It is a playable track in the video games 'Rock Band 2' and 'Guitar Hero Live', and a downloadable track for the video game 'Guitar Hero 5' and the iPod Touch application 'Tap Tap Revenge'.
Critical reception
"Girl's Not Grey" received generally positive reviews from critics, who considered it a pop punk song from the album. Allmusic reviewer Johnny Loftus felt that the chorus of the backing voices shifted the song from hardcore punk to pop, and called the single "a car-radio singalong of pure genius".
Music video
A music video directed by David Slade was released shortly after the single's release. According to the Fuse TV program 'IMX', the video is similar to Slade's previously directed music video, "Sour Girl" by Stone Temple Pilots, featuring a strange environment and human-sized rabbit characters as well. The music video is similar to Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', featuring a little girl that follows a rabbit into an alternate reality.
It features the band performing in an alley, where a girl follows a pink human-sized rabbit to an alternate reality. The band are seen performing in the location as well. The location is mostly made up of the color pink, featuring a pink sky, pink flower petals encircling the area, and the girl is dressed in pink as well, as well as her head turning into an anime-like helmet. The band is shown performing in the alley again, covered in black paint. Meanwhile, in the alternate reality, the girl continues to follow the rabbit until it leads her to the top of a hill, where she sees the band performing the chorus. Although she seems happy, she is devastated after realizing the pink rabbit has disappeared. A whirlwind of pink flower petals begin to encircles her, and although she struggles to set herself free, she disappears, leaving behind her pair of golden ballet slippers. The pink flower petals then burst out of vocalist Davey Havok's chest at the end of the video.
There is also an alternate version of the video which simply features the band performing in the alley covered in black paint but does not feature the girl, human-sized rabbits, or the alternate reality setting.
Live performances
"Girl's Not Grey" was first performed live on January 8, 2002, at the Forum in Inglewood, California. As of 1 April 2019, it has been performed 538 times, making it the most performed song by AFI.
Track listing
'UK 7"'
#"Girl's Not Grey" 3:10
#"The Hanging Garden" (Live at BBC) 3:45
'Europe'
#"Girl's Not Grey" 3:10
#"This Celluloid Dream" (Demo) 4:18
#"Synesthesia" (Demo) 4:35
#"Girl's Not Grey" (Final) Clip 3:11
'Germany'
#"Girl's Not Grey" 3:10
#"This Celluloid Dream" (Demo) 4:18
'UK CD 1'
#"Girl's Not Grey" - 3:10
#"The Hanging Garden" (live at BBC) - 3:45
#"Synesthesia" (Demo) - 4:35
#"Girl's Not Grey" (Final) Clip - 3:11
'UK CD 2'
#"Girl's Not Grey" - 3:10
#"Reiver's Music" (336 Sessions) - 3:23
#"Now The World" (336 Sessions) - 4:01
#"Girl's Not Grey" (Prelude) Clip - 3:11
Chart positions
References
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