Recorded 2000-01 Length 4:24 | Genre Electro Swing Label XL | |
Released 26 August 2002 (2002-08-26)
(UK promo 12" single)
26 November 2005 (2005-11-26)
(UK 12" single) Format 12"
CD
digital download | ||
"Do Your Thing" is a song by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. It originally appeared on their second studio album Rooty (2001) and was released in August 2002 as a 12" Limited Edition, vinyl single in UK and as a CD single in Australia. It was released again, as a 12" vinyl single, in November 2005 by record label XL, when it reached number 32 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Lead vocal is by Elliot May.
Composition and video
The song sampled the track "Fungii Mama" from Kenny Barron's album Lemuria-Seascape (1991). The song's music video was a directorial debut for Kim Gehrig, features people in a park wearing t-shirts which mirror the song lyrics.
Critical response
The song is featured on the 2011 experimental live album Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest. Reviewing the album for The Independent, Andy Gill said: "'Do Your Thing' is very New York in flavour, a big-band jazz groove led by piano, the audience clapping along with the rattling percussion as brash trombones and sinuous saxophone take brief solos before the strings whip the piece to its conclusion."
Usage in media
Via Astralwerks, the Jaxx Club Remix of the song appeared on the soundtrack of EA Canada's snowboard racing game SSX 3.
The song appears in the 2002 British romantic sports Bend It Like Beckham.
In 2002 the song was one of three selected by Levi's for a TV advertisement campaign. The video, entitled "Up & Down", was directed by Chris Cunningham.
The song was featured in the 2006 computer animated film Barnyard and in the 2002 romantic comedy Bend It Like Beckham. It was also featured in the opening credits of the 2003 comedy Just Married.
The song was used on an Android advert to celebrate the gay marriage court ruling in 2015.
The song was used on the first teaser trailer of the 2016 American 3D computer animated comedy film The Secret Life of Pets.