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New York (Eskimo Joe song)
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Wikipedia article
"'New York'" is a song by the Australian group, Eskimo Joe, released in February 2007 as the third single from the groups's third studio album 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine'. The song peaked at number 26 on the ARIA Charts.
Music video
The band flew to New York to film a music video for the single. T It was fist shown on ABC's all night music program, 'Rage' on 15 December 2006.
The music video is unusual for Eskimo Joe, with the lead singer, Kavyen Temperley, changing T-shirts. It was filmed on the streets of New York while Temperley walks backward with smoke coming out of his mouth. It then pans to the band running in Central Park in a similar style to the "Who Sold Her Out" video.
The director, Stuart MacLeod, commented "The concept basically was going to be a Bob Dylan-esque sort of thing, but instead of placards with key lyrics on, Kav was going to be walking down the street taking off t-shirts. Each new t-shirt underneath had a new key lyric on it."
After a quick mock-up at home, the logistics of donning T-shirts in real time proved more difficult than anticipated. In frustration, MacLeod hit the rewind button and the sudden flurry of activity saw the concept morph into a music video. The flash of inspiration meant that Temperley had to learn all of the lyrics to New York in reverse and to not only negotiate walking and talking backwards, but to work his way through over 50 T-shirts as well. "He had his hands full that's for sure," MacLeod said. "Me and Joel just pop up in the background now and then. We even added a bit of smoke coming out of his mouth, like the mist coming out of the grates in Manhattan."<
Eskimo Joe ran a competition on their website for people to create a remix of the song "New York", with the winning remix being included on the band's following commercial single release "Breaking Up".
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Category:Eskimo Joe songs
Category:2007 singles
Category:2006 songs
Category:Mushroom Records singles
Category:Warner Music Australasia singles
Category:Songs written by Stuart MacLeod (musician)
Category:Songs written by Joel Quartermain
Category:Songs written by Kavyen Temperley
Category:Songs about New York City
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