Lucas With The Lid Off
| "Lucas With The Lid Off" | ||||
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| Single by Lucas | ||||
| Released | October 1994 | |||
| Genre | Jazz rap | |||
| Length | 4:02 [1] | |||
| Label | Big Beat | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, Lasse Jensen, Lucas Secon, Zany King | |||
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"Lucas With The Lid Off" is a 1994 song by Danish rapper Lucas Secon that was released as the lead single from his album Lucacentric. The single was a hit in the United States, reaching number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100[2] and number 22 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.[3]
The video for the song was directed by the French film maker Michel Gondry[4] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.[5]
The song was featured in the Jennifer Love Hewitt film, Can’t Hardly Wait.
Michel Gondry video
The video is known for its technical achievement in that it was shot in one long continuous single take with no edits, cuts or digital enhancement. In an RES magazine interview, Gondry explained:
"Michel called this video 'a big turn for me, because it was so challenging. Nobody really believed - even me - that we could pull that off when we made it after 17 takes, because it was really done all in-camera in one shot. There is no post-production at all. I think this one really gave me a lot of attention.'"[6]
Lucas With The Lid Off was nominated in the Best Music Video (short form) category at the 37th Grammy Awards,[7] (one of two Michel Gondry music videos nominated that year, the other being Sinead O'Connor‘s Fire On Babylon)[8]
The video was also received a MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, and was No. 20 in Slant Magazine’s 100 Greatest Music Videos.[9]
Film featured music
Cover versions
On the album A Century of Song (Polyholiday Records), Lucas With The Lid Off was covered by the American band La Musique Populaire.[12]
It was performed in the form of a spoof in an episode of the PBS series Bill Nye the Science Guy in 1995, but renamed "Whether the Weather" as part of the episode's scientific lesson about climates.
References
- ↑ iTunes: Lucacentric: track listing
- ↑ "Lucas - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com.
- ↑ "Lucas - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com.
- ↑ Michel Gondry website: videos: Lucas
- ↑ Los AngelesTimes, 37th Grammy Award Nominations, best music video (short form)
- ↑ Director: RES magazine interview, Michel Gondry
- ↑ Los AngelesTimes, 37th Grammy Award Nominations, best music video (short form)
- ↑ Michel Gondry website: videos: Sinead O’Connor
- ↑ Slant magazine: 100 greatest Music Videos
- ↑ IMDB: soundtrack: Can’t Hardly Wait
- ↑ IMDB: soundtrack: Can’t Hardly Wait - Lucas With The Lid Off
- ↑ Polyholiday records: discography - A Century Of Song