Yang Yang (song)
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| "Yang Yang" | ||||
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| Single by Yoko Ono | ||||
| from the album Approximately Infinite Universe | ||||
| A-side | "Death of Samantha" | |||
| Released | 26 February 1973 (US) 4 May 1973 (UK) | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:52 | |||
| Label | Apple | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Yoko Ono | |||
| Producer(s) | John Lennon, Yoko Ono | |||
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| "Yang Yang" | ||||
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| Single by Yoko Ono | ||||
| Released | 2002 | |||
| Genre | Rock, dance | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Yoko Ono | |||
| Producer(s) | John Lennon, Yoko Ono | |||
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"Yang Yang" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1973 on the album Approximately Infinite Universe, and on the B-side to "Death of Samantha". The song was later included on Ono's compilation albums Walking on Thin Ice and Onobox. In 2002, as part of the ONO remix project, the track was re-released and reached #17 on the US dance charts, nearly 30 years after original release.
The song's titular character, a powerful man who talks to "his world" and to himself by telephone, abuses both the women (whom he "owns") and the men (sending them "pebbles and stones") in his charge. The lyrics deal with feminism, the emotional distance and cruelty sometimes shown by men, and the dehumanizing of both sexes.
Later critical reception
Pitchfork's Jess Harvell stated, "On Orange Factory's 'Down and Dirty' remix of 'Yang Yang', Ono is vocodered into a Troutman-esque gremlin and blurred into an anonymous orgasmic sigh over a brutally functional garage bounce."[1] Dan Rapper, in his review of Open Your Box for PopMatters, opined that the Orange Factory remix "is turned into a straight vocoder-style Ministry of Sound track, its squelching electro already somehow tired-sounding."[2]
Track listing
- Digital download[3]
- "Yang Yang" (Peter Rauhofer Ying Mix) – 7:36
- "Yang Yang" (Orange Factory Down & Dirty Mix) – 8:05
- "Yang Yang" (Peter Rauhofer Yang Mix) – 9:05
- "Yang Yang" (Orange Factory Pump Mix) – 10:28
- "Yang Yang" (Peter Rauhofer Yang Dub) – 6:35
- "Yang Yang" (Orange Factory Down & Dirty Dub) – 6:29
