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 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. It features the main guitar riff accompanied by a largely drum and bass inspired backing beat. It is the first track on the second disc of the album. "Blue Orchid" has been remixed by High Contrast on the album Fabric Live 25. 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. It features Karen Elson, a model who would marry Jack White soon after the shoot. The video for "Blue Orchid" was on Yahoo!'s Top Twenty Scariest Music Videos of all Time, charting at number 13. He has denied that the song relates to the ending of his relationship with Renée Zellweger. In an NPR interview, Jack White referred to "Blue Orchid" as the song that saved the album. The second CD version features 'Jack' on the left. The first CD and the 7" feature the couple in the same order as Get Behind Me Satan, with 'Jack' on the right. All three covers feature two people dressed up as The White Stripes, but are noticeably different people. The single comes in three editions, each with different additional tracks. 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 WHITE STRIPES BLUE ORCHID ALBUM COVER GENERATOR
The recorded sound is produced by playing a guitar into an Electro-Harmonix creation, the Polyphonic Octave Generator (POG). The event takes place across two weekends in April."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. It was recently announced that Jack White will be headlining this year’s Coachella Festival in California. If that wasn’t enough, during the show Jack and Meg ventured outside the venue to play an entirely unamplified version of “We Are Going to Be Friends” for the assembled multitude of fans unable to purchase tickets and watching the performance via closed-circuit feed.
THE WHITE STRIPES BLUE ORCHID ALBUM COVER CRACK
Not only was there fear that the amplification of the band would cause the plaster in the building to crack and possible fall and injure attendees, but out of custom/fear/lord-knows-what the crowd remained seated until being explicitly asked to stand from the stage by Jack White himself. A press release about the show reads: “Words do not ably describe the beauty of the Teatro Amazonas nor the furor riled up by the White Stripes appearance. Scroll down for the LP’s tracklisting, which includes a cover of Bob Dylan‘s “Lovesick Blues”. It will include the double LP Under Amazonian Lights, which was recorded live in Manaus, Brazil on June 1, 2005, as well as a DVD featuring footage recorded at the gig at Teatro Amazonas Opera House. The package will focus on the band’s 2005 tour of South America and come as part of the Third Man Records subscriber-only service, The Vault.
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