Marlene (song)

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"Marlene"
Lightspeedchampionmarlene.jpg
Single by Lightspeed Champion
from the album Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You
Released25 January 2010
Recorded2009
Genre Folk, indie rock
Length12:00
Label Domino
Songwriter(s) Devonte Hynes
Producer(s) Ben Allen
Lightspeed Champion singles chronology
""Galaxy of the Lost" (Re-Release)"
(2008)
"Marlene"
(2010)
"Madame Van Damme"
(2010)
Music video
"Marlene" on YouTube

"Marlene" is the first single from British artist Lightspeed Champion's second album Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You , released on 25 January 2010. [1]

Contents

Music video

A preview of the music video was posted on the Domino Records' YouTube channel on 3 November 2009, which was then followed a month later on 3 December 2009, by the full-length video.

It features Dev Hynes sitting in the back of a pick-up truck in a mountainous area, before the truck driver stops to pull Dev out of the truck and kick him down to the floor. This leads Dev into a psychedelic dream of dancing girls, only to wake up and find himself having an argument in a cafe with what appears to be his girlfriend. He soon wakes up from this to the truck driver throwing water at him, who then drags Dev to see two dancing girls similar to those in his dream. This sends him into another psychedelic dream. He then wakes up one more time in the back of the pick-up truck with the dancing girls in the distance, as if none of it had happened.

Track listing

10", 2x7", Digital download RUG345
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Concerto .2 "So Long! So Long!""Devonté Hynes2:18
2."Marlene"Devonté Hynes3:53
3."69 Année Érotique" (feat. Valentine Fillol-Cordier) Serge Gainsbourg 3:31
4."(He's) The Great Imposter" Sharon Sheeley and Jackie DeShannon 2:18
Total length:12:00
AmazonMp3 edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Marlene"Devonté Hynes3:53
2."Concerto .2 "So Long! So Long!""Devonté Hynes2:18
3."69 Année Érotique" (feat. Valentine Fillol-Cordier) Serge Gainsbourg 3:31
4."(He's) The Great Imposter" Sharon Sheeley and Jackie DeShannon 2:18
5."Tête Morte"Devonté Hynes4:21
Total length:16:21

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References

  1. "Domino Records Article". DominoRecordCo.com. Retrieved 8 November 2009.