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| Single by Regina Spektor from the album Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories |
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| Released | 2006 | ||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, CD single, digital download | ||||
| Genre | Anti-folk, Alternative pop | ||||
| Length | 4:54 | ||||
| Label | Transgressive/WEA | ||||
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"Us" is the second single from Regina Spektor's UK compilation album Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories, although it was originally released on her 2004 album Soviet Kitsch. The song is notable for its use of a string quartet in addition to Spektor's usual piano and vocals. The song was also used in a UEFA Champions League Final montage, by ITV.
Music video
This is the first Regina Spektor song to have an accompanying music video. It is noticeable for its use of stop motion animation. It shows Spektor climbing into a dark green room and unpacking an assortment of objects from a trunk, including a piano, rug, a globe, and some seeds, which she places on the rug and grows with water. The video contains some bizarre scenes, such as toy soldiers coming out of Spektor's mouth, and ends with her placing everything (including herself) back into the trunk, which vanishes. The music video is a parody of Georges Méliès's silent film, Le Locataire Diabolique][1] (1909), in which a man rents an apartment and furnishes it by unpacking objects from his trunk in the same fashion Spektor does in Us. The video was directed by Adria Petty.
Releases
| Year | Label | Format | Catalog no. | Country | B-sides |
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| 2006 | Transgressive | CD single | 018 | UK | "Scarecrow & Fungus" |
| 2005 | Transgressive | 7" vinyl | 018 | UK | "Scarecrow & Fungus"/"December" |
| 2006 | WEA | Digital download | ? | UK | "Scarecrow & Fungus"/"December" |
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