A-side "Matilda" Recorded 2011 | Format digital download Length 3:42 | |
Released 18 May 2012 (split single) Genre Indie rock, art rock, experimental rock, indietronica | ||
"Fitzpleasure" is a song by British alternative indie pop quartet alt-J from their debut studio album An Awesome Wave. The song's inspiration came from the 1964 book Last Exit to Brooklyn where each chapter stars a different character, specifically chapter four which features a character named 'Tralala', a prominent lyric in the song.
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Music video
A music video to accompany "Fitzpleasure" was released on YouTube on November 5, 2012, with a total length of three minutes and forty-one seconds. French director Emile Sornin created the music video to be all black and white clips. The clips show a rundown, large city filled with gangsters, an old man with a tongue for an eye, prosthetic limbs, an old man with two faces (one in front and the other in the back of the head), contorting gang-like dancers, and mobsters.
Remakes and TV airings
After seeing the band perform live, Jim James, lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for My Morning Jacket said, "...It kind of gave me this good, foreboding feeling. It was like seeing one of the great bands very young." This encouraged James to remix the song, and his 'Apple C' remix was included on the deluxe edition of An Awesome Wave.
Miley Cyrus performed "Fitzpleasure" during her Bangerz London tour. This performance later inspired the band to take a line from the Miley Cyrus song "4x4" for the album's first single, "Hunger of the Pine".
"Fitzpleasure" was aired as the theme song in episode six, season eight of the television series Weeds in 2013. Later in 2013, "Fitzpleasure" was aired in a Nokia Lumia 925 commercial in Europe and Lumia 928 commercial in the United States. The UK trailer for The Way, Way Back also featured "Fitzpleasure". It was also aired in episode one, season one of Broad City.