Good Luck (Basement Jaxx song)

"Good Luck"
Single by Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula
from the album Kish Kash
B-side "Mere Pass"
Released 15,April 2003
Format CD
Genre
Length 4:38 (album version)
3:36 (radio edit)
Label XL
Songwriter(s) Felix Buxton, Kekaula, Simon Ratcliffe
Basement Jaxx singles chronology
"Lucky Star"
(2003)		 "Good Luck"
(2003)		 "Plug It In"
(2004)

"Lucky Star"
(2003)		 "Good Luck"
(2003)		 "Plug It In"
(2004)
Lisa Kekaula singles chronology
"Good Luck"
(2003) Good Luck2003		 "U Don't Know Me"
(2005) U Don't Know Me2005
Alternative cover
An alternative cover features Lisa Kekaula in the song's music video

"Good Luck" is a song by British electronic music duo Basement Jaxx, featuring vocals from Lisa Kekaula of American band The Bellrays. It was released in April 2003 as a single from their third studio album, Kish Kash, and reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, number 2 on the Hot Dance Club Play in the US and number 22 on the ARIA Charts.

"Good Luck" featured as the opening theme song to the 2004 CGI anime movie Appleseed and was also featured in the Victoria's Secret fashion show for 2003 and 2005.

A version without lyrics was used during the opening sequence of the BBC's UEFA Euro 2004 television coverage.[1] This spawned a re-release of the original single, and it entered at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart on 4 July 2003. The same instrumental version was later used by BBC Radio Sheffield as the opening theme for their live local football coverage, where it is still in use as of December 2017.

The song was nominated in the Best Dance Recording category at 47th Grammy Awards.

The song appeared on American reality television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Development

"We had to kick it off with something. Whatever we chose people would say, 'That isn't house music.' Who cares?" (Complaints about the lack of house music have appeared on the band's website.) It's a brave track, even more so for including a 16-piece orchestra. But it didn't come easily. "Initially, Lisa sounded like a diva and we didn't want that. With two hours before she had to go back to America, Simon strummed an AC/DC riff and I scribbled down some words and suddenly we had something that didn't sound like a Basement Jaxx record - a rock 'n' roll song which didn't even sound modern."[2]

Buxton said the song was the most difficult track to work on of the album. "That took us ages and we went through loads of processes. It took a long time to get it to its finish point," stated Buxton.[3]

Critical reception

While predicting winners from all of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards' categories, Sal Cinquemani and Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine predicted the song's win, with Henderson called the song "a fantastic, chugging single that shoves Britney's sex-pixie ditty and the Scissor Sisters's queer-as-milquetoast shtick face down in the dirt."[4]

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single, filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

References

  1. ↑ "Match of the Day - Euro 2004".
  2. ↑ Chapman, Anna (24 October 2003). "Burning down the house that Basement Jaxx built". Independent. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Interview Basement Jaxx - Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe (part 2) on YouTube. FaceCulture. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Cinquemani, Sal; Henderson, Eric (20 January 2005). "Grammy 2005 Winner Predictions". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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