Right Behind You (Mafia)

"Right Behind You (Mafia)" is 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.

Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam performed the drums on this song while Our Lady Peace's own drummer, Jeremy Taggart, was recovering from injury.

Song information

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.

Kurzweil narration (R.K. Intro)

“

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.

Music video

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.

References

↑ OLP Bandology at OurLadyPeace.cc
↑ Bliss, Karen "Making Peace With the Future: Man just might have created a monster -- the computer." - What Magazine February 2001. Retrieved November 16, 2001

Our Lady Peace

Raine Maida Duncan Coutts Steve Mazur Jeremy Taggart Mike Turner Chris Eacrett Jamie Edwards

Studio albums	Naveed Clumsy Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch Spiritual Machines Gravity Healthy in Paranoid Times Burn Burn Curve

Live albums	Live

Compilations	A Decade Playlist

Singles	"Out of Here" "The Birdman" "Starseed" "Hope" "Supersatellite" "Naveed" "Superman's Dead" "Automatic Flowers" "Carnival" "4am" "Clumsy" "One Man Army" "Is Anybody Home?" "Thief" "In Repair" "Life" "Right Behind You (Mafia)" "Somewhere out There" "Innocent" "Made of Steel" "Where Are You" "Angels/Losing/Sleep" "Will the Future Blame Us?" "Kiss on the Mouth" "All You Did Was Save My Life" "The End Is Where We Begin" "Dreamland" "Heavyweight" "As Fast As You Can" "Whatever"

Producers	Arnold Lanni Bob Rock Raine Maida Jason Lader

Related articles	Discography The Age of Spiritual Machines Fair Ground Crash Karma Summersault

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