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| Released | 28 April 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2007; Rockfield Studios, Wales | |||
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| Length | 4:51 | |||
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"Graveyard Girl" is a song by French electronic act M83. Written by Anthony Gonzalez with his brother Yann, it was released in April 2008 as the second single from M83's fifth studio album, Saturdays = Youth .
Anthony Gonzalez cited English band Tears for Fears and Scottish band Cocteau Twins, as well as John Hughes teen films The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles , as inspirations for Saturdays = Youth . [4] [5] A girl resembling Molly Ringwald appears on the album cover, and the lyrics and music video for "Graveyard Girl" further highlight these influences. [6] "I wanted to have the feeling of a teenager mixed with this period of the Eighties," Gonzalez said. [4] The song tells the story of a goth girl Gonzalez once knew who "worships Satan" but "dreams of a sister like Molly Ringwald." [7]
Spin's Mosi Reeves called "Graveyard Girl" one of the album's "few compelling songs." [8] Dave Hughes of Slant Magazine said the song is "certainly the most typically, successfully pop moment this difficult, often transcendent act has ever produced." [6] Pitchfork's Amy Phillips wrote that "Anthony Gonzalez makes the teen years seem idyllic, a time in life when all emotion is pure and beautiful," and that the song is "melodramatic, overblown, and even a little bit silly. But then again, so is high school." [9] Jer Fairall of PopMatters suggested that on "Graveyard Girl", M83 found "pure pop perfection by dipping into the pool of mid-'80s synth-pop." [1] Treble's Tyler Parks noted: "It is quite possible that no one has ever sung quite so sweetly of someone worshipping Satan." [10]
| Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
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| Pitchfork | US | Top 100 Tracks of 2008 [9] | 2008 | 46 |
| PopMatters | US | Best 50 Singles of 2008 [1] | 2008 | 17 |
| Rockdelux | Spain | Lo Mejor de 2008 [11] | 2009 | 40 |
| Treble | US | Top 50 Songs of 2008 [10] | 2008 | 1 |
| The Village Voice | US | 2008 Pazz & Jop [12] | 2008 | 46 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Graveyard Girl" |
| 4:51 |
| 2. | "Graveyard Girl" (Yuksek remix) |
| 5:13 |
A remix by French DJ-producer Yuksek serves as the single's B-side. ParkerLab's Dusted remix appears on M83's We Own the Sky EP, released in 2009. [4] "Graveyard Girl" is used in the 2010 film The Last Song . [13]
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The film tells the story of five teenagers from different high school cliques who serve a Saturday detention overseen by their authoritarian vice-principal.
Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life before being nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the drama film Tempest (1982). Ringwald became a teen idol following her appearances in filmmaker John Hughes teen films—appearing in Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). These films led to the media referring to her as a member of the "Brat Pack." Her final teen roles would be in For Keeps and Fresh Horses.
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. Hughes began his career in 1970 as an author of humorous essays and stories for the National Lampoon magazine. He went on to Hollywood to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s such as National Lampoon's Vacation; Mr. Mom; Sixteen Candles; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Pretty in Pink; Some Kind of Wonderful; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; She's Having a Baby; The Great Outdoors; Uncle Buck; Home Alone; Dutch; Beethoven ; Dennis the Menace; and Baby's Day Out.
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