Blue Orchid
"Blue Orchid" is the first track by the American alternative rock band the White Stripes from their album "Get Behind Me Satan", and the first single to be released from the album. Although it was suspected that Jack White wrote the song about his breakup with Renée Zellweger, he has denied this claim. Lyrically, "Blue Orchid" is about White's longing for classical entertainment industries and the turmoil that the newer industries sent him through. "Blue Orchid" was released to US rock radio on April 18, 2005. Commercially, the song topped the Canadian Singles Chart in June 2005  and reached the top 10 in the United Kingdom, peaking at number nine on the UK Singles Chart the same month. In the United States, the song reached number 43 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number seven on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Elsewhere, the song was a top-twenty hit in Denmark and Norway. The music video, directed by Floria Sigismondi, has been noted for its frightening imagery. Background. The recorded sound is produced by playing a guitar into an Electro-Harmonix creation, the Polyphonic Octave Generator (POG). Live, the sound is produced by a bass-rich guitar  tone, used in combination with Whammy Pedal and the POG to create the heavily metallic sounding breaks of the song ("How dare you, how old are you now anyway" and "get behind me, get behind me now anyway"). The single comes in three editions, each with different additional tracks. All three covers feature two people dressed up as the White Stripes, but are noticeably different people. The first CD and the 7-inch feature the couple in the same order as "Get Behind Me Satan," with "Jack" on the right. The second CD version features "Jack" on the left. In  an NPR interview, Jack White referred to "Blue Orchid" as the song that saved the album. He has denied that the song relates to the ending of his relationship with Renée Zellweger. Music video. The video for "Blue Orchid" was on Yahoo!'s "Top Twenty Scariest Music Videos of all Time", charting at number 13. It features Karen Elson, a model who would marry Jack White soon after the shoot. The video, which was directed by Floria Sigismondi, ends with a horse, its hooves raised in the air, about to stomp on Elson, but just before the hooves land on  her, the video quickly goes black, ending. Track listings. US and UK 7-inch vsingle US maxi-single UK CD1 UK CD2 Covers and remixes. "Blue Orchid" has been remixed by High Contrast on the album Fabric Live 25. It is the first track on the second disc of the album. It features the main guitar riff accompanied by a largely drum and bass inspired backing beat. The vocals from the song, "You took a white orchid, you took a white orchid and turned it blue" are repeated at various points throughout the track. In popular culture. The song is  used as the theme song for the Australian Radio Show Wil & Lehmo on Triple M; it is also used briefly in the trailer for the 2008 documentary "It Might Get Loud", in which Jack White features with other musical artists The Edge and Jimmy Page. The song can also be heard in the movie, "The Green Hornet", which is directed by Michel Gondry who also directed many other music videos for the White Stripes. Part of the song is also played in the second episode of Forces of Nature, a 2016 science documentary series aired on BBC One. The song  was also briefly used in the Hulu miniseries adaption of Looking for Alaska. The song is also playable in the music video game "Guitar Hero 5". The song is featured in the trailer for the fifth season of the animated comedy "Rick and Morty".