After the addition of "Play Dead" on Debut, about 100 people who already owned the album without the bonus track, called the record company and complained, demanding to be given new records as compensation. In both the album and the single version, the song is actually a remix by Tim Simenon. In both the film and soundtrack, "Leaving London" crescendoes into "Play Dead" as a single arrangement. Björk also sings on the tracks "Opening Titles" and "Leaving London" on the soundtrack CD of the film. Produced by David Arnold and Danny Cannon, the song was originally a non-album track recorded for the film The Young Americans and intended as a single-only release, but eventually it was added as a bonus track to international pressings of Björk's album Debut because Björk's manager Derek Birkett convinced her to add the track. Things he never actually said to her in the film but things he would have said to her". It was just me trying to imagine what he would say to her. Björk wrote it from the main character's point of view: "In the film, he had a girlfriend who just wanted him to be happy and in love and he just couldn't get his head around it. The song is underscored by moody strings and its lyrics about acting numb to prevent emotional pain. To help her in the writing, she asked the film's director, Danny Cannon, to write her a whole page of phrases that represented the emotions of the characters in the film, but she used only one line that Cannon wrote: "Sometimes, it's just like sinking", and still she changed it to "It's sometimes just like sleeping" in the actual lyrics. ījörk described the writing as "very difficult" because "the character in the film was suffering and going through hardcore tough times and at the time I was at my happiest". Björk was asked to write the melody and lyrics for the song, while Wobble wrote the bass part and Arnold composed the score, which Björk described as a "greatest hits of what's in the film". The song was co-written by Jah Wobble, Björk featuring David Arnold. David Arnold on how Tori Amos inspired the track So I went home that night wanting to write a Tori Amos song, and I thumped out what became 'Play Dead'. I had written a song called 'Play Dead' for my very first film The Young Americans and I wrote that after seeing Tori Amos do a songwriter's showcase in London before she was well known. "Play Dead" was included in Björk's 2002 greatest hits album Greatest Hits. An accompanying music video was released, directed by Danny Cannon, featuring images from the film which also was directed by Cannon. "Play Dead", inspired by the main character of the film, was released on 11 October 1993 and charted within the top 20 in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It was written by Jah Wobble, Björk featuring David Arnold, and produced by Cannon, Arnold, receiving additional production and mixing by Tim Simenon. The song was not included in the first edition of Debut but was later included as a bonus track, and the album was re-issued in November 1993. " Play Dead" is a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, released by the labels Island and Mother as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama The Young Americans, starring Harvey Keitel. JSTOR ( January 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įrom the album Music from the film The Young Americans and Debut (re-release edition).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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