Love in Black and White

"**Love in Black and White**" is a song by Mars Argo, included on later editions of *Linden Place*. It was released as a single on June 7th, 2011.

## Background

Mars Argo posted a lyric of the song to her Twitter account, alongside its title, to her Twitter account around October 6th, 2010. The original 2010 version of the song, which carried the album tag *Spider in My Bathtub EP*, was leaked to YouTube on September 5th, 2017. This tagging may suggest that the song was intended to be the B-side to "Spider in My Bathtub".

The following year, garage-rock influenced production by Titanic Sinclair was received by the song. It was then subsequently released as a single in June of 2011, and eventually merged into the Bandcamp release of *Linden Place* later that month, after being scrapped from the project initially.

The song was remixed sometime between early to mid-2011 with new production by Johnny K, and part of the process for re-working the song was featured in the unreleased video "Clips". This version of the song remained unreleased, but a short clip was used in a video promoting the band's live performance at Common Pitch in Milwaukee the following year.

## Lyrics

* Released version
* Demo version

My life is very plain

I feel my figure changing

Watch the nights crawl by me

Love in black and white

Is making me so lonely

And only I can help myself now

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I'll never let you go

I fell into a phase

That I'm not fairly fond of

When I first met my permanent frown

The world is not out to get me

And I can clearly see

What this place has done to me

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I'll never let you go

Your misery is company

That I don't want to know

Take me where I want to go

I want to go, oh oh oh

I'll never let you go

I'll never let you go

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I'll never let you go

I'll never let you

I'll never let you

I'll never let you go

My life is very plain

I feel my figure changing

Watch the nights crawl by me

Love in black and white

Is making me so lonely

And only I can help myself now

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I'll never let you go

I fell into a phase

That I'm not fairly fond of

When I first met my permanent frown

The world is not out to get me

And I can clearly see

What this place has done to me

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I'll never let you go

I'll never let you go

I like feeling electric

I like feeling you stare

I feel you turning me on now

I'll never let you go

## Official versions

* *Linden Place* and music video versions – 3:28
* Single version – 3:34
* *Spider in My Bathtub* demo version – 3:52
* Johnny K remix – Unknown
	+ "Milwaukee Innovation Week 2012 Recap" snippet – 1:24
* Johnny K remix a capella – Unknown
	+ Mars Argo snippet – 0:17
	+ Titanic Sinclair snippet – 0:16

## **"Love in Black and White"**Music video by Mars Argo

### **Released**

June 6, 2011 (YouTube)
January 13, 2012 (Vimeo)

### **Length**

3:43

The official music video for the song was released to YouTube on June 6th, 2011, and later to Tony Katai's Vimeo on January 13th, 2012. It was directed by Katai and Matthew Franklin, and depicts all of the band's at-the-time members playing the song together in the living room of Argo's family cabin. Argo states in "Whats Your Name (Part 2)" that she intended to wear a dress for the video, but settled on a striped jumper instead.

Katai's girlfriend Wesley Levise appears near the beginning of the video, and similarly appears in the background of certain shots of *Computer Show* episode "What Do You Love?", as well as appearing in behind the scenes footage of both videos in "Clips".

## Trivia

* The song samples "She's Electric" by Oasis.
* The clap stem from this song also appears in "Seventeen".
* The song is with "Nothing Without You", "Pls Don't Forget Me", "Stuck on You" and the Johnny K remix of "Using You" as a few of the only songs after the *Technology Is a Dead Bird* era that feature notable vocals from Sinclair.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mars Argo (June 7, 2011). "Love in Black and White". *Bandcamp*. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
2. ↑ kairøs (October 6, 2010). ""RT @marsargo: I'll never let you go". *Twitter*. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
3. ↑ shannon (October 7, 2010). "RT @marsargo: Love in black and white". *Twitter*. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
4. ↑ InnovationInMKE (July 24, 2012). "Milwaukee Innovation Week 2012 Recap". *YouTube*. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
5. ↑ grocerybagdottv (June 6, 2011). "Mars Argo - Love in Black and White (Official)". *YouTube*. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
6. ↑ TONY KATAI (January 13, 2012). "Mars Argo - Love in black & white". *Vimeo*. Archived from the original on January 23, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2023.

## Navigation

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