"Androgyny" is a
rock
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,
pop, and
funk
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song released by American
alternative rock
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group
Garbage
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as the
lead single
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from their third studio album, ''
Beautiful Garbage
''Beautiful Garbage'' (stylized as ''beautifulgarbage'') is the third studio album by American rock band Garbage. It was released on October 1, 2001, on Mushroom Records worldwide, with the North American release on Interscope Records the follow ...
''. Released worldwide in September 2001, "Androgyny" represented a shift in the group's style, overtly embracing current music elements into their repertoire. Drummer/producer
Butch Vig
Bryan David "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the drummer and co-producer of the alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of the diamond-selling Nirvana album ''Neve ...
explained: "To me, some of the most cutting edge music out there is in the
Top 40
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. Some of the songs on ''Beautiful Garbage'', like "Androgyny" and "Untouchable" are influenced by
Timbaland
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and
Dr. Dre
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."
Promotion for "Androgyny" and its parent album were put on hold in the wake of the
September 11 terrorist attacks
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.
The mixed reaction from both critics and Garbage's fanbase to "Androgyny" also contributed to its underperformance in Garbage's home markets of the United Kingdom, where "Androgyny" stalled outside the
top twenty, and in the United States, where it failed to register on any ''
Billboard
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'' charts.
Across Europe, however, "Androgyny" gained significant traction at radio and video;
"Androgyny" was also a notable success in Australia, where it became their highest-charting single at the time.
In 2016, Garbage performed "Androgyny" for the first time in fifteen years in
Charlotte, North Carolina
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to highlight the controversial
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
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that was being deliberated in the state at the time. The band are resolutely pro-
trans rights
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. Later that year, band leader
Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish musician and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the American alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and di ...
spoke of "Androgyny": "As it turns out, the song was way ahead of its time. The subject matter is now very pertinent. But back then, it was considered a little strange, I guess".
Song profile
Garbage began the process of writing, recording and self-produced their third album in April 2000 at their own
Smart Studios
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in
Madison, Wisconsin
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. The sessions for the record would last well into the following year; "Androgyny" becoming realised sometime in January 2001. Garbage had been making
rough mixes of their work, and had moved a chunk from one musical piece into another to create what would end up as "Androgyny".
A
classical guitar
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part written for another song on the album, "Untouchable", was matched with a sparse
drum machine pattern written for "Androgyny" during tracking stages. Although it sounded a little crude, the band felt that the piece had character; the band edited it with
Pro Tools
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software and matched it with a
synth
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melody
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.
["Garbage: Steve Marker & Duke Erikson cut the crap", '']Guitar Player
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'', January 2002 issue "It's really three songs stuck together," guitarist
Duke Erikson
Douglas Elwin "Duke" Erikson (born January 15, 1951) is an American musician, songwriter, screenwriter, film producer and record producer, best known as a co-founder and guitarist of the alternative rock band Garbage. Garbage has sold more than 1 ...
later recalled, "The way we do things is almost like
Cubism
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. It's different viewpoints of the same thing, jammed together on the one canvas".
["Recording ''Beautiful Garbage''", '']Sound on Sound
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'', June 2002 issue ""Androgyny" is a schizophrenic song",
Steve Marker
Steve Marker (born March 16, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a cofounder and guitarist of the alternative rock band Garbage.
Early life
Steven W. Marker was born in Mamaroneck, New York on Marc ...
claimed, describing it as "lots of
urban groove... then it's got a bit of that
'60s fuzz guitar, loads of
strings
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. There are like three or four different styles of music in it. It's basically just a weird song".
The majority of the recorded work on ''Beautiful Garbage'' was to
analog
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*** Analog electronics, circuits which use analog ...
tracked through a
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mixing console
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; then fed into Pro Tools for recording
overdubs
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,
editing
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and
mixing.
Originally the band had recorded a keyboard
bassline
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during the verses;
Daniel Shulman
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asked to perform organic bass on those parts instead. The band agreed; Shulman recorded those parts using a
Fender Precision Bass
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Deluxe with the
E String tuned down to D. While
Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish musician and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the American alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and di ...
's main
vocals
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were generally not treated to the extent that they had on Garbage's first two albums, a lot of her
backing vocals
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were; on "Androgyny" each vocal track was
EQ'd and treated differently.
Lyrically, "Androgyny" was described by Shirley Manson as a "
third-sex manifesto" for
gender expression
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, adding that she thought that the world was fascinated with
gender-bending
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Gender bending may be political, stemming from the early identity politics movements of the 1960s and 19 ...
and
cross-dressing
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Cross-dressing has play ...
, and that she felt that people had become sick of being categorised in
binary terms: "this overt sexualisation
f society.. has become so un-erotic, so un-mysterious, and so un-sexy". The band felt that "Androgyny" was a good choice as a lead single for ''Beautiful Garbage'', as the song represented how the album veered to pop, more than the first two albums. "Starting off with something as quote unquote "poppy" as "Androgyny" was maybe where we wanted to go with this..." explained Erikson, "it sounds a lot different to what we've done before." Later Erikson told VH1, "
Androgyny"encapsulates the mood of the record... each part of the song has a very drastic change and the record is full of extremes like that." He pointed out that despite the
R&B verse, the song is recognisably Garbage because of the rock chorus; adding that the bridge also has a
Philadelphia soul
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influence. "We combine different genres of music within a song... in that way, it's what we've always done."
Single release
"Androgyny" received its world premiere radio broadcast on August 9, 2001, on
Steve Lamacq
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Early life
He attended The Ramsey Academy ...
's ''
Evening Session
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'' on
BBC Radio 1
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; this was followed up by pre-release broadcasts the next day on
Nemone
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's Radio 1 show, and on
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and
XFM
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's breakfast shows.
"Androgyny" was officially serviced to UK radio on August 13.
"Androgyny" was
C-listed at BBC Radio 1,
Virgin
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,
Red Dragon and
Isle of Wight Radio
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.
[Mushroom Records UK ''Beautiful Garbage'' & "Androgyny" promotion, marketing, tools and schedule campaign itinerary, published Sept 2001] XFM's
Arthur Baker premiered the
Felix Da Housecat
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Stall ...
remix
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of "Androgyny" on his show on August 19, while
The Architechs remix premiered on the
Dreem Team's Radio 1 show on August 26.
Both mixes were issued on
12" vinyl
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on August 20; the Felix Da Housecat mixes to
nightclubs
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, while the Architechs remix was sent to specialist clubs.
The "Androgyny" music video premiered on both
MTV UK
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The channel launched as part of MTV Networks Europe localisation strategy in 1997. MTV UK (previously MTV UK & I ...
and
VH1
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on September 10;
the following night's broadcast of the ''
Mercury Music Prize
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'' event featured two
teaser
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adverts
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during the
commercial break
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s to promote both "Androgyny" and ''Beautiful Garbage''.
"Androgyny" was
B-listed at Radio One. Garbage spent a week in the United Kingdom to promote the single and album from September 17; recording a performance of "Androgyny" for ''
Pepsi Chart Show
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'', ''
Top of The Pops
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'' and ''The Base'' to be broadcast after the single release.
Shirley Manson co-hosted the ''Steve Lamacq Show'' on September 19.
Garbage made their first live televised performance in nearly two years on September 22; performing "Androgyny" on ''
cd:uk'' and the following day a live performance on ''
T4 Popworld
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The show began ...
''.
Mushroom Records UK
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A&E Records was formalised in May 2003, when the NewsCorp Music Group of independen ...
issued "Androgyny" on September 24 on three
formats; a
2×CD single set and a
12" vinyl
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.
Woolworths
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made "Androgyny" its 'Single of the Week'.
"Androgyny" debuted at No. 24 on the
UK Singles Chart
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, which was lower than
any of the six singles Garbage released during the ''
Version 2.0
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'' album cycle.
"Androgyny" dipped to No. 52 the following week, before leaving the Top 75 altogether.
['' Q, "Garbage: Slipping Away'', November 2001 issue]
In North America,
Interscope
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scheduled "Androgyny" for impact on
Modern Rock
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Mod ...
,
Hot A/C,
Mainstream Top 40
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,
Adult Top 40
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and
AAA
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format radio stations from August 27.
Interscope announced that "Androgyny" had become the No. 1 'Most Added' track at Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40 and AAA, while picking up notable adds at CHR/Pop and Hot AC stations. The
music video
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for "Androgyny" was premiered on both
VH1
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and
MTV
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on September 10. Interscope partnered with
Yahoo! Messenger
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to promote the release of "Androgyny" around the launch of their new
instant messenger
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initiative termed ''IMVironments'' that allowed users to play music and
Flash Video
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clips
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inside the IM window. Users were able to correspond within a Garbage-themed environment that included the "Androgyny" audio, a Flash montage of the band, a
hyperlink
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to
Launch.com to view the "Androgyny" video and a link to
Yahoo! Music
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to purchase the new album.
Following September 11, "Androgyny" lost any momentum at US radio; barely hanging on at Triple-A, where it was averaging around 100-150 plays a week. "
n the weeks following 9/11radio banished all sorts of songs, anything weird at all. "Androgyny" wasn't going to fly for a second", Duke recalled.
To set up the release of both "Androgyny" and ''Beautiful Garbage'',
PIAS France serviced the video for "Androgyny" to music stations on September 13;
["Artistes & Musiques: L'album: BeautifulGarbage", ''MusiqueInfo'', September issue] "Androgyny" was playlisted by radio stations
Europe 1
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,
Europe 2
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,
RTL,
France Inter
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,
Ouï FM
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,
Sud Radio
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,
FIP, WIT FM, Alouette FM,
Le Moev' and
Couleur 3
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, and by music channels
MCM and
MTV France
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, with specials broadcast by
France 3
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and
M6 PIAS Germany serviced the music video to stations where it was playlisted by
RTL II
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,
VIVA
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, VIVA2,
MTV Central
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Availabi ...
and Onyx.tv; "Androgyny" was also well received by German radio, where it peaked at No. 57 on
their airplay chart. On September 24, PIAS released a maxi CD single across Europe. In some countries such as
Netherlands
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, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
and
Italy
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, PIAS also issued a two-track CD single; PIAS France
import
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In international trade, the importation and exportation of goods are limited ...
ed the 12" single from the UK to distribute to national music stores. After its fifth week at radio, "Androgyny" reached No. 17 on the European airplay chart; the following week the song debuted and peaked at No. 70 on the
European Hot 100 Singles
The European Hot 100 Singles was compiled by '' Billboard'' and '' Music & Media'' magazine from March 1984 until December 2010. The chart was based on national singles sales charts in 17 European countries: Austria, Belgium (two charts separately ...
chart.
In the weeks after the ''Beautiful Garbage'' album debuted at No. 2 across Europe, "Androgyny" peaked at No. 11 on the airplay chart.
In
Russia
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, "Androgyny" peaked at No. 2 on ''
Music & Media
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s airplay chart.
For the release of "Androgyny" in Australia,
FMR set a radio premiere date of August 24 across the two countries, confident from early album previews across airplay formats that the single would potentially receive massive radio support.
[''Beautiful Garbage'' Point-of-Sale brochure, published by Festival Mushroom] "Androgyny" became Garbage's first Top 10 Airplay hit in Australia.
["Breaking Up The Girl" Point-of-Sale brochure, published by Festival Mushroom, 2002] The physical single was released on September 24 as a
maxi single
A maxi single or maxi-single (sometimes abbreviated to MCD or CDM) is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an A-side song and a B-side song.
The first maxi singles
Mungo Jerry's first single, "In the Summertime" was the ...
featuring "Begging Bone", and the two Felix da Housecat and The Architechs remixes.
"Androgyny" charted at No. 21 on the
ARIA Charts
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and at No. 36 on the
RIANZ singles chart
Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand. Membership of Recorded Mus ...
.
"Androgyny" stayed on the Australian chart for seven weeks,
and on the New Zealand chart for thirteen, eventually rising to No. 17 on its eleventh week.
Music video
The
music video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...
for "Androgyny" was
directed
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Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''Di ...
by Don Cameron over a three-day
London
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studio shoot commencing August 20, 2001.
The video was produced by Tsunami/Method Films and its
visual effects
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a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action foota ...
overseen by Smoke & Mirrors. Collaborating on the music video were top hair / make-up / stylists, British '60s
airbrush
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U ...
artist Peter Barry and
digital matte artist
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s.
The
concept
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They play an important role in all aspects of cognition. As such, concepts are studied by s ...
for the "Androgyny" music video sought to redefine Shirley Manson as a fashion icon.
Cameron framed Manson's on-screen performance and the bands'
cameos in several
graphic art
A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface. directed environments, as well as placing the band within a
cast
Cast may refer to:
Music
* Cast (band), an English alternative rock band
* Cast (Mexican band), a progressive Mexican rock band
* The Cast, a Scottish musical duo: Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis
* ''Cast'', a 2012 album by Trespassers William
* ...
setting for the first time: interspersed throughout the video is footage of multiple fashionable twenty-somethings seen swapping clothes and kisses in a public restroom as the band look on. Cameron also used
post effects to make Manson appear as a visualization of
androgyny
Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to biological sex, gender identity, or gender expression.
When ''androgyny'' refers to mixed biological sex characteristics in ...
.
Clothing chosen by stylist were from
Martine Sitbon
Martine Sitbon is a French fashion designer.
Biography
After spending her childhood in Morocco and a short stay at the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rome (Chateaubriand High School in Rome), the young Martine Sitbon returned to Paris in the early 1960s ...
, Benjamin Cho, Richard Saenz, and undisclosed designers. The creation of the "Androgyny" video involved the design of four different and individual effects.
The opening section of the video presented Manson in a similar style of the classic
Vladimir Tretchikoff
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, , Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan – 26 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa) was an artist whose painting ''Chinese Girl' ...
Balinese girl paintings, created using
matte painting
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and
green screen
Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on colour hues ( chroma range). The technique has been used in many fields to r ...
. The footage was heavily treated and combined with multiple layers of painted elements to give Manson porcelain-like skin that is characteristic of Tretchikoff's work.
The second section of the video that involves the use of
CGI featured Manson dressed half in a man's suit and half in a women's suit; as Manson rotates on a turning pedestal, elements of her body and clothing
morph
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* Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
* Muller's morphs, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
* "-morph", a suffix commonly used in tax ...
.
The
limousine
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A very long wheelbase luxury sedan (with more than four doors) driven by a prof ...
sequence, where Manson is seen
chauffeur
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Originally, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but this has changed to speciali ...
ing a young couple down a stylised
freeway
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, involved filming multiple
motion control
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passes and painted/
keyed elements. Motion control data was manipulated in post-production to remove the reflections of the set and creating reflections of the
street lights
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and
cityscape
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.
The final sequence sees Manson performing in front of a city
backdrop; this involved multiple layers of matte painted elements to create.
The music video began airing across Europe and North America on September 10, 2001.
Music station VH1 paired its broadcasts of "Androgyny" with the band's earlier single "
Only Happy When it Rains
"Only Happy When It Rains" is an alternative rock song written and produced by American alternative rock band Garbage for their self-titled debut studio album (1995). It was recorded at the band's own studio, Smart Studios, in Madison, Wisco ...
". In 2002, a
QuickTime
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format of the "Androgyny" video was included on a promotional sampler
CD-ROM
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titled ''Garbage:Sampler'', given away by Mushroom Records UK in conjunction with ''
The Sun'' newspaper and
Asda
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supermarket.
The "Androgyny" video was uploaded to
VEVO
Vevo ( , an abbreviation for "Video Evolution", stylized as VEVO until 2013) is an American multinational video hosting service, best known for providing music videos to YouTube. The service is also available as an app on selected smart TVs, di ...
in 2009.
Remixes
The
CD format of ''Beautiful Garbage'' contained an
enhanced element where users could remix four tracks from the album, of which "Androgyny" was one of. Created in conjunction with
Sonic Foundry
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ:SOFO) produces software for distance learning and corporate communications. Sonic Foundry, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, and is known for originally developing Vegas Pro and Sound Forge. ...
, using a customized version of their
drag-and-drop
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''
ACID Pro
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''
music sequencer
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software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
, the remixes utilized
samples and
loops taken directly from the actual songs. The enhanced section could be accessed when the user was online; a simplified version of the software featuring only "Androgyny" loops was accessible when the user was offline.
The offline 'soundtoy' featuring "Androgyny" loops and samples was later included on the ''Garbage:Sampler'' CD-ROM.
Interscope Records and Sonic Foundry launched a competition in November 2001, in which fans were invited to remix "Androgyny" by downloading free ''ACID Xpress'' software. Entrants could then upload their work to a specially created website (www.acidgarbage.com) to
stream
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their mixes online.
The winner received copies of Sonic Foundry's ''ACID Pro 3.0'', ''
Sound Forge 5.0'', ''
Vegas Audio 2.0'', and five loop libraries.
Remixes commissioned for the single release included club and dub mixes each from
UK garage
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outfit The Architechs and
Chicago house
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and
electroclash
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Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) ...
DJ
Felix da Housecat
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Musical career Early life
Stall ...
. His "Thee Glitz" remix was notably included on the 2003
2 Many DJs
Soulwax are an electronic band from Ghent, Belgium. Centred around brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, other current members include Igor Cavalera and Stefaan Van Leuven. They were first noticed after the release of their album ''Much Against Eve ...
landmark
mashup album ''
As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
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'', and later
remastered
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Mastering
A ...
and included on the bonus disc of Garbage's 2007
greatest hits
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album ''
Absolute Garbage
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''.
Interscope paid $75,000 for a
funk
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remix of "Androgyny" by
Pharrell Williams
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and
Chad Hugo
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, an American production duo known as
The Neptunes
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with scheduled plans for it to be serviced to radio and clubs.
[''Beautiful Garbage'' Point-of-Sale brochure, published by Interscope, 2001] A remix by
Missy Elliot
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was also in the works; Butch Vig told ''
NME
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'': "We've talked about either "Androgyny" or "Untouchable". We'll send it off to her and say, Missy, do your thing, do whatever you want with it, because we love her and love her sensibility which she brings to it."
Critical reception
"Androgyny" was met with a mixed reception upon its late 2001 release. In early press, ''
Kerrang!
''Kerrang!'' is a British weekly magazine devoted to rock, punk and heavy metal music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication ''Mixmag''). It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one- ...
s Dom Lawson described it as "pretty collides with sterile" and "glistening"; while a reviewer for ''
Heat
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'' claimed ""Androgyny" is a bewitching record, pirouetting between pop, rock and funk". Much comment was made on the songs notable genre-crossover from alternative rock. In an album review for ''
Classic Rock
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'', Jerry Ewing wrote: "With its playful "boys in the girl's room, girls in the men's room" refrain,
Androgyny"works its seductive rhythms very much into
R&B territory, yet remains undeniably Garbage-like in sound." ''
Q''
' magazine's Paul Elliot wrote ""Androgyny"s R&B stutter evokes
Destiny's Child
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, essentially pop, but not without depth", while in their album review, Ian Griffiths wrote that ''Beautiful Garbage'' was the band's best album to date, pointing out that "Androgyny" radiated "coy brooding". David Stubbs of ''
Uncut
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* ''Uncut'' (film), a 1997 Canadian docudrama film by John Greyson about censorship
* ''Uncut'' (magazine), a monthly British magazine with a focus on music, which began publishing in May 1997
* '' BET: Uncut'', a Black Enter ...
'' agreed that the album was the band's best yet, writing "Androgyny" recalls
Prince
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at his most funkily fluid and puckish, imagining a world where gender barriers are broken down." Barry Divola of ''WHO'' magazine wrote "Note to R&B stars who are having trouble getting
Timbaland
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to free up his schedule: hire Garbage. They may technically be a rock band, but you wouldn't know it from "Androgyny", with its loops, syncopated rhythm and severely cut-up instrumentation". In an album review for ''
Rock Sound
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'', Victoria Durham called the lyrics "tiresome", while comparing the song's intro to
Madonna
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. "If current single "Androgyny" is meant to be a new direction, it isn't a bad one, a chunky riff set to a nu-soul production job", wrote ''
The List'', "Lyrically though, the band are still confusing the deviant with the dull".
Track listings
*European CD single
Play It Again, Sam MUSH94CDSE
#"Androgyny" – 3:09
#"Androgyny" (Thee Glitz mix) – 6:07
*UK 12" single
Mushroom MUSH94T
#"Androgyny" (Thee Glitz mix) – 6:07
#"Androgyny" (The Architechs mix) – 4:57
*UK CD1
Mushroom MUSH94CDS
#"Androgyny" – 3:09
#"Begging Bone" – 3:55
#"Androgyny" (Thee Glitz mix) – 6:07
*UK CD2
Mushroom MUSH94CDSX
#"Androgyny" – 3:09
#"Androgyny" (The Neptunes remix) – 3:18
#"Androgyny" (The Architechs mix) – 4:57
*Australian CD maxi
Festival MUSH94CDM
*European CD maxi
Play It Again, Sam MUSH94CDM
*Poland CD maxi
BMG 74321 89397 2
*South Africa CD maxi
David Gresham CDSDGR 46
#"Androgyny" – 3:09
#"Begging Bone" – 3:55
#"Androgyny" (Thee Glitz mix) – 6:07
#"Androgyny" (The Architechs mix) – 4:57
*Japan CD maxi
Sony Music Int'l SRCS-2507
#"Androgyny" – 3:09
#"Androgyny" (Thee Glitz mix) – 6:07
#"Androgyny" (The Architechs mix) – 4:57
#"Androgyny" (Thee Drum Drum mix) – 4:35
Charts
Release history
References
External links
Garbage official website"Androgyny" music video"Androgyny" lyrics"Androgyny" release discography
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2001 singles
2001 songs
Funk songs
Garbage (band) songs
Interscope Records singles
LGBT-related songs
Mushroom Records singles
Song recordings produced by Butch Vig
Songs written by Butch Vig
Songs written by Duke Erikson
Songs written by Shirley Manson
Songs written by Steve Marker