Apple Blossom (song)

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"Apple Blossom"
Song by the White Stripes
from the album De Stijl
Released
  • June 20, 2000 (2000-06-20) (De Stijl album release)
  • November 13, 2020 (2020-11-13) (2020 The White Stripes Greatest Hits single release) [1]
Genre
Length2:13
Label Sympathy for the Record Industry
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s) Jack White
Producer(s) Jack White

"Apple Blossom" is a song by the American rock band the White Stripes from their 2000 album De Stijl , later released as a single to promote the album The White Stripes Greatest Hits . [1]

Contents

Release and reception

De Stijl was released on June 20, 2000, to positive reviews from critics such as Jenny Eliscu, who described "Apple Blossom" as "vaudeville-style", while noting that it "echoes Village Green Preservation Society-era Kinks. [4] When ranking the White Stripes' 20 best songs for British newspaper the Guardian, "Apple Blossom" was placed number 8, with critic Alexis Petridis stating the lyrics were "filled with charming homespun wisdom" and that it includes a "melody the Turtles could have had a hit with". [5] In 2020, "Apple Blossom" was released as a single ahead of The White Stripes Greatest Hits, and was sequenced as the eighteenth track on the compilation. [6]

Music video

An animated music video, directed by M. Wartella and produced by Dream Factory Animation, [7] tells a story of a woman who escapes on a boat to an island with the only occupants on the island being a man and a lighthouse, the man nurses the woman back to health, after their love grows, they leave the island, abandoning the lighthouse while it burns. [8] [9]

Credits and personnel

According to the liner notes of De Stijl: [10]

"Apple Blossom" was included in the Quentin Tarantino film The Hateful Eight , and was included on the film's soundtrack album. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 Moore, Sam (November 13, 2020). "Watch The White Stripes' animated new video for 'Apple Blossom'". NME. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  2. ↑ Singh, Karen. "25 Years Later, The White Stripes' De Stijl Remains a Dime-Store Masterpiece". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  3. ↑ Handyside, Chris (September 3, 2004). Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes . St. Martin's Griffin. p. 109. ISBN   0312336187.
  4. ↑ Eliscu, Jenny (June 25, 2001). "De Stijl". Rolling Stone . ISSN   0035-791X . Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  5. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (December 5, 2024). "Tall tales, campfire singalongs and Oldham slang: the White Stripes' 20 best songs – ranked!". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  6. ↑ Kaye, Ben (October 6, 2020). "The White Stripes announce first-ever Greatest Hits album". Consequence. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  7. ↑ Moore, Sam (November 13, 2020). "Watch The White Stripes' animated new video for 'Apple Blossom'". NME. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  8. ↑ Blistein, Jon (November 13, 2020). "White Stripes Soundtrack an Animated Love Story in Video for 'De Stijl' Classic 'Apple Blossom'" . Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  9. ↑ "White Stripes Share 'Apple Blossom' Video, Detail 'Greatest Hits' Set". Rock Cellar Magazine. November 13, 2020. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  10. ↑ De Stijl (booklet). The White Stripes. Sympathy for the Record Industry. 2000. p. 3.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  11. ↑ "The Hateful Eight's composer 'shocked' by violence in Tarantino's new film". The Independent. Archived from the original on February 9, 2025. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
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