In Sweden, it debuted at number twenty-one on the Swedish Top 100 Singles Chart and peaked at number three in November 1998. Peaking at number sixteen in America, it became the album's only single and the band's second single to enter the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks since their breakthrough hit, Lovefool that peaked at number nine. Worldwide, "My Favourite Game" was the most commercially successful single from Gran Turismo. This record does take a couple spins to get the overall feel, but it's worth the ride once you give it a whirl around the block." Chart performance Led by a pumped electric guitar hook, fuzzy bass, and a distinctive, pleading vocal from lead singer Nina Persson, the song effuses an overall groovy vibe that should help its crossover to the mainstream side. Don't expect the cutesy overtones of " Lovefool" this track is consistent with the band's more typical rock-fueled roots. and looks poised to find favor stateside, first at modern rock, then adult top 40 and triple-A. Critical reception Ĭhuck Taylor of Billboard wrote, "This first single from the Swedish outfit's upcoming fourth studio album, " Gran Turismo", is already gaining ground in the U.K. Its verses are significantly faster than the slow, bass-heavy chorus where the drums run at half-time. The song is driven by its two-note guitar riff which is the basis of the "electro-rock powerhouse". Svensson commented how this concept "isn't always a good idea, like when women stay in a relationship with a man that beats them because they think he'll be better someday". The lyrics deal with a failing relationship, summed up by Persson as "fucking up in love", and the subsequent desire to change the loved one "to suit themselves better or save people from themselves". The song is not written in standard verse-chorus form and its instrumentation includes guitar, bass and organ. It is written in common time and moves at 143 beats per minute. "My Favourite Game" is an alternative rock song composed in the key of C Minor. THE CARDIGANS MY FAVOURITE GAME ACAPELLA PROĮven though the drums were recorded using analogue tape compression, the rest of the song's production, including the "fat fuzzy bass line" and the coda, was completed using Pro Tools 24. īoth the drum and guitar parts were recorded in a "'70s-style dry room" while the vocals were recorded in the attic of the studio. It was soon after changing the musical direction of the song when the song's distinctive guitar hook evolved. Svensson declared that this helped as the band knew the song "was a single, but it wasn't working at first" under "the shuffle beat at half the tempo". Although the song was originally taking shape as a slow country/rock shuffle, similar in style to Neil Young's " Old Man", the tempo was doubled upon request of Tore Johansson. īefore recording on the song commenced, Svensson presented the song to producer Tore Johansson by playing the track on acoustic guitar. Afterwards she wrote verses to "give the chorus meaning", which enabled her to "cram in a lot of lyrics into the verses" in contrast to other Cardigans songs with less lyrics such as " Erase/Rewind". Persson started with the chorus, which "married the music so quickly that you couldn't tear them apart". The song, like the other songs from the album, was recorded in Tore Johansson's newly developed Country Hell recording studio in Skurup, Sweden. "My Favourite Game" was written by guitarist Peter Svensson and lead singer Nina Persson during the recording sessions of the band's fourth studio album Gran Turismo between May and July 1998. 1 Songwriting, recording and production.The song is featured in the 1999 video game Gran Turismo 2. It caused controversy due to its imagery of car crashes and reckless driving, and resulted it being recut to tone down the violence and appear on music channels. The accompanying music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and features Persson joydriving on a desert road. While it failed to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 and its radio counterpart, it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. It also charted within the top 40 in several European countries and New Zealand. "My Favourite Game" found minor international success, reaching number three in Sweden and number 14 in the UK. Lyrically, it is about a failing relationship and the attempt made to better the significant other or save people from themselves. The song is the album's eighth track and was released as its first single on 14 September 1998. " My Favourite Game" is an alternative rock song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for Swedish band the Cardigans' fourth studio album, Gran Turismo (1998).
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