Fell in Love With a Girl
by The White Stripes
- 190
- BPM
- B major
- Key
- 1B
- Camelot
- 34
- Danceability
- 70
- Acousticness
The White Stripes recorded "Fell in Love with a Girl" at Easley-McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, during the three production days of White Blood Cells. Meg White was hesitant about the short schedule. She thought the songs needed more practice. It was a new song written for the record, unlike most of the other tracks, which dated from the band's early years. Jack and Meg had married in 1996 and divorced in 2000, but Meg insisted they keep working together.
Sympathy for the Record Industry released the album in mid 2001, and the single followed on January 21, 2002, through XL Recordings. It reached number 12 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, the band's first single there, and number 21 on the UK Singles Chart, where it went gold.
Michel Gondry directed the video, which is a Lego animation shot frame by frame, with the bricks rebuilt for every frame. His son appears at the start building blocks. The band could not strike a deal with Lego. They bought a large amount of boxes themselves. They had also asked the company about packaging a small set with each single to build Jack and Meg, and Lego refused, saying it did not market to people over the age of twelve. The video won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2002.
Fell in Love With a Girl runs at 190 BPM, the tempo of speedcore, blast-beat metal and very fast hardcore. In classical terms it sits in presto territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.26 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 316 ms. It is in B major, Camelot 1B, which shares its notes with Ab minor and mixes cleanly with E major and F# major.
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