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| name = Brick | cover = Brick-single-cover.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Ben Folds Five | album = Whatever and Ever Amen | B-side = "Smoke (Live), "Kate (Ska remix)," "Mitchell Lane" | released = November 21, 1997 | format = CD | recorded = Sep 1996-Oct 1996 | studio = | venue = | genre = Alternative rock, piano rock | length = 4:31 | label = Epic | writer = {{hlist|Ben Folds|Darren Jessee}} | producer = | prev_title = One Angry Dwarf & 200 Solemn Faces | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Song for the Dumped | next_year = 1998 }} "Brick" is a song by American alternative rock group Ben Folds Five. It was released in November 1997 as a single from their album Whatever and Ever Amen and later on Ben Folds Live.[1] The verses were written by Ben Folds about his high school girlfriend getting an abortion, and the chorus was written by the band's drummer, Darren Jessee. "Brick" was one of Ben Folds Five's biggest hits, gaining much mainstream radio play in the USA, the UK, and Australia in 1998. BackgroundOn the album Ben Folds Live, Folds explained:
Folds wrote the song on guitar rather than piano, and performed it as such on tour with The Bens in 2003.[3] Fan responseIn his iTunes Originals interviews, Folds addresses his fanbase's disapproval: "When you have a hit song, much of your fanbase and people that listen to your music... their opinion is gonna be loud and clear that they feel that you've abandoned the fanbase; you've written something that's not for them, it's for everybody else, you've 'sold out', all kinds of things like that... That was the overwhelming vibe... 'What is that crap?'... because we'd been playing silly, up-tempo... we were the piano band that rocks... We couldn't even fit the song into a show."[4] He goes on to explain in the same interview that he was not put off by the fans: "When I look back on it, I think that the fact that that song was a hit gives me some confidence in pop music because the song is completely honest, what it is, it's crafted well, it's relaxed, it's recorded in a way that we'd never recorded a song before, which was absolutely live, three or four microphones in a bedroom. The song cannot have more integrity than it had."[4] "Brick" was voted in at #12 in the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1998. In the Hottest 100 songs of all time poll conducted by Australian radio station Triple J in July 2009, Brick placed in at #67. More than half a million votes were cast in to the poll.[5] Chart positions
Music videoThe music video features the band performing in front of a film projected on a screen on a wall, with several inches of water covering the floor. Actress and artist Ariana Richards appears as a pregnant teen in the music video of the song.[8] Track listing
References1. ^[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006L3QM Amazon.com listing of album tracks] 2. ^SongFacts: 'Brick' by Ben Folds Five, retrieved 2008-07-04. 3. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvPBqNuzyE The Bens with Ben Folds on acoustic guitar - Brick (live 2003)], retrieved 2012-08-13. 4. ^1 {{cite AV media|people = Ben Folds|year = 2005|title =Making A Stadium Feel Like a Living Room}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/countdown/cd_61-70.htm |title=Countdown | Hottest 100 - Of All Time | triple j |publisher=Abc.net.au |date= |accessdate=2012-01-04}} 6. ^[https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3436&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=q4kvfjijt3ubd98iqu147atvb2 Canadian Alternative 30 peak] 7. ^[https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3520&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=homcbjqr9g6kc308mhau52juf1 Canadian Top Singles peak] 8. ^{{cite news |last1= Oloizia |first1=Jeff |title=Ariana Richards Revisits Jurassic Park |url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/ariana-richards-jurassic-park |accessdate=February 10, 2017 |work=Interview Magazine |date=October 24, 2011}} External links
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