Graveyard Girl
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| "Graveyard Girl" | ||||
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| Single by M83 | ||||
| from the album Saturdays = Youth | ||||
| Released | 28 April 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2007; Rockfield Studios, Wales | |||
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| Length | 4:51 | |||
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"Graveyard Girl" is a song by French electronic act M83. Written by Anthony Gonzalez with his brother Yann, it was released in April 2008 as the second single from M83's fifth studio album, Saturdays = Youth.
Anthony Gonzalez cited English band Tears for Fears and Scottish band Cocteau Twins, as well as John Hughes teen films The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, as inspirations for Saturdays = Youth.[5][6] A girl resembling Molly Ringwald appears on the album cover, and the lyrics and music video for "Graveyard Girl" further highlight these influences.[7] "I wanted to have the feeling of a teenager mixed with this period of the Eighties," Gonzalez said.[5] The song tells the story of a goth girl Gonzalez once knew who "worships Satan" but "dreams of a sister like Molly Ringwald."[8]
Critical reception
Spin's Mosi Reeves called "Graveyard Girl" one of the album's "few compelling songs."[9] Dave Hughes of Slant Magazine said the song is "certainly the most typically, successfully pop moment this difficult, often transcendent act has ever produced."[7] Pitchfork's Amy Phillips wrote that "Anthony Gonzalez makes the teen years seem idyllic, a time in life when all emotion is pure and beautiful," and that the song is "melodramatic, overblown, and even a little bit silly. But then again, so is high school."[10] Jer Fairall of PopMatters suggested that on "Graveyard Girl", M83 found "pure pop perfection by dipping into the pool of mid-'80s synth-pop."[1] Treble's Tyler Parks noted: "It is quite possible that no one has ever sung quite so sweetly of someone worshipping Satan."[11]
Accolades
| Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
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| Pitchfork | US | Top 100 Tracks of 2008[10] | 2008 | 46 |
| PopMatters | US | Best 50 Singles of 2008[1] | 2008 | 17 |
| Rockdelux | Spain | Lo Mejor de 2008[12] | 2009 | 40 |
| Treble | US | Top 50 Songs of 2008[11] | 2008 | 1 |
| The Village Voice | US | 2008 Pazz & Jop[13] | 2008 | 46 |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Graveyard Girl" |
| 4:51 |
| 2. | "Graveyard Girl" (Yuksek remix) |
| 5:13 |
