| 词条 | Building a Mystery | ||||||||||||||
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| name = Building a Mystery | cover = BuildingaMystery.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Sarah McLachlan | album = Surfacing | released = 19 August 1997 | format = CD single | recorded = Morin Heights | studio = | venue = | genre = Pop rock | length = 4:07 | label = Nettwerk (Canada) Arista (US) | writer = Sarah McLachlan, Pierre Marchand | producer = Pierre Marchand | prev_title = I Will Remember You | prev_year = 1995 | next_title = Sweet Surrender | next_year = 1998 | misc = {{Audio sample | type = single | file = Building a Mystery.ogg | description = "Building a Mystery" }} }} "Building a Mystery" is a song by Sarah McLachlan, from her multi-platinum album Surfacing, first released in 1997. At a live performance, Sarah explains the song as being "basically about the fact that we all... have insecurities to hide, and we often do that by putting on a facade." She also goes on to say that "unfortunately, if we just be who we are, that's usually the more attractive and beautiful thing".[1] A fan favourite, the song was an immediate top-forty and adult contemporary hit which paved the grounds for her future songs "Sweet Surrender", "Adia" and "Angel", all from Surfacing, and it has received several awards. Commercially, "Building a Mystery" was Canada's best-selling single of 1997, topping the country's official chart for eight weeks, and peaked at number 13 in the United States. CensorshipThe album version of "Building a Mystery," and the live albums Afterglow Live and Mirrorball contain the line, "A beautiful fucked up man." The radio version replaces this line with "A beautiful but strange man" or the original lyric garbled beyond recognition, and during performances on radio or television, Sarah sings the line "A beautiful messed up man." Chart performance"Building a Mystery" became McLachlan's biggest chart hit in Canada, spending eight weeks at number on the RPM Top Singles chart and was ranked as the number-one single of 1997 on the magazine's year end chart.[3] It also topped the RPM Adult Contemporary and Alternative 30 charts. In the United States it debuted at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early September 1997 and peaked at number 13 a month later. In Australia the song gained minor popularity, reaching number 97 in March 1998.[7] Music videoThe music video for the song features Moist front man David Usher. It features a man, described as McLachlan's boyfriend, taking points of light from wherever he travels and stitching some sort of garment. When McLachlan investigates in his absence, she finds that he has been assembling a skirt so decorated as to be lit with stars. Matt Mahurin directed the video, but later disowned it with the Allen Smithee credit. Awards and accoladesIt won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 1998. The track also made McLachlan the recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1998, beating Mariah Carey, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole and Jewel.[2] It came in at number 91 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 1990s.[3] Charts{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Weekly charts
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References1. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20160428201731/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wzUAwrcHQ ] 2. ^{{cite web|title="Grammy Awards for Best Pop Female Performance" on Rockonthenet.com|url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/popfemale.htm|accessdate=16 July 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Ali|first1=Rahsheeda|title=The 100 Greatest Songs Of the '90s|url=http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-05-23/top-100-songs-of-the-90s/11/|website=VH1 Music News|publisher=VH1|accessdate=16 July 2015|date=23 May 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717103921/http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-05-23/top-100-songs-of-the-90s/11/|archivedate=17 July 2015}} 4. ^1 "ARIA Chartifacts Week Commencing ~ 13th October 2008 ~ Issue #972". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 6 February 2009. 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3416&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3416.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3416|title=RPM '97 Year End Top 100 Hit Tracks|work=RPM|publisher=Library and Archives Canada|accessdate=4 March 2019}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.7905&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.7905.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.7905|title=RPM '97 Year End Top 100 Adult Contemporary Tracks|work=RPM|publisher=Library and Archives Canada|accessdate=4 March 2019}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3415&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3415.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3415|title=RPM '97 Year End Top 50 Alternative Tracks|work=RPM|publisher=Library and Archives Canada|accessdate=4 March 2019}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1997|title=Billboard Top 100 - 1997|accessdate=28 August 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611194337/http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1997|archivedate=11 June 2009}} External links
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