" Star 69 " / " Weapon of Choice " is a double A-side single by Fatboy Slim, peaking at #10 on the UK Singles Chart.
The music video for "Weapon of Choice", featuring Christopher Walken, won multiple awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards and earned a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Video.
"Star 69"
"Star 69" is a house track with the repeating verse "They know what is what, but they don't know what is what, they just strut, what the fuck?" over and over again. A radio edit exists with the word fuck taken out. This track is popular with DJs and has often been remixed and used in mashups due to the vocal hook. The sample is taken from "I Get Deep" by Roland Clark, which is also used in Fatboy Slim's own "Song for Shelter".
"Weapon of Choice"
"Weapon of Choice" features a prominent sample of Sly & the Family Stone's 1968 recording "Into My Own Thing" as well as samples from "All Strung Out Over You" by The Chambers Brothers and "Word Play" by The X-Ecutioners. Parliament/Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band bassist Bootsy Collins provided the lead vocals; it also contains background vocal samples that were also used in "Don't Forget Your Teeth," the B-side to "Right Here, Right Now" from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby . The remix of the song featured on Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder peaked at #137 on the UK Singles Chart.
Music video
The song is perhaps best known for its accompanying music video, directed by Spike Jonze and featuring actor Christopher Walken, who was trained as a dancer in musical theatre prior to his acting career, dancing and flying around in an empty hotel (the Los Angeles Marriott) to the music. The video has been credited by the music press and mass media for bringing a whole new generation of fans to Walken's talents.
The "Weapon of Choice" video won six MTV awards in 2001. As one of the video's MTV "Moonmen" was for Best Choreography, Walken became a Video Music Award winner. The clip was also cited as the best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time that was compiled from a music industry survey by VH1.
The video was spoofed at the end of the episode "Life Slaver" of the animated cartoon 6teen , which regularly features a character who is a parody of Walken.
Track listing
CD1
CD2
12"
Charts
Notes:
- 1 - "Star 69/Weapon of Choice" double a-side single.
- 2 - "Weapon of Choice"
- 3 - "Star 69"
- 4 - "Star 69" (censored version)
- 5 - "Weapon of Choice" (remix)
References
- ^ 2001 MTV Video Music Award winners - MTV.com Retrieved from Internet Archive on 21 December 2001.
- ^ "Jonze dominates video poll." News.BBC.co.uk, 26 April 2002. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
External links
- Music video for "Weapon of Choice"
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