| "Right Behind You (Mafia)" | ||||
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| Single by Our Lady Peace | ||||
| from the album Spiritual Machines |
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| Released | July 2, 2001[1] | |||
| Format | Promo-only CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock Post-grunge |
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| Length | 3:14 | |||
| Label | Columbia 2574 | |||
| Writer(s) | Raine Maida | |||
| Producer | Arnold Lanni & Raine Maida | |||
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"Right Behind You (Mafia)" is the title of a song by Canadian music group Our Lady Peace. It was the third and final single released from their fourth album, Spiritual Machines and their only single released in 2001. The single did not perform well, ultimately causing its release as well as that of its music video to be aborted. It was also their last single released with founding guitarist Mike Turner in the band.
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This song like many others on the album, were inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines. According to Raine, it was written as more of a retort to Kurzweil's predictions which Raine noticed didn't involve the human spirit as a factor. "..[which is] not an 'F-You' to Kurzweil. It's like 'I believe [much of] what you're saying, but we're going to fight it as well because there is a soul and there is a spirit.'"[2] Its original title was "Spirit Mafia" or just "Mafia". While being the first song on the album, it is the second track following Kurzweil's 6-second introduction.
| “ | Age of Spiritual Machines. Ten to fifteen billion years ago the universe is born. | ” |
After the release of the single was aborted, copies of the promotional single (pictured) were distributed as a gift to the fan club.
The music video for "Right Behind You" was directed by Oli Goldsmith, who created all of the artwork for the Spiritual Machines project. The video was not released until 2008 on OurLadyPeace.com. The video shows the band performing within a collage of pictures of buildings and people in the fetal position mixed with live action videos.
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