Young Folks
| "Young Folks" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| B-side | "Ancient Curse" |
"Young Folks," the first single from Peter Bjorn and John's third album Writer's Block, (2006), and features Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes as a guest vocalist.
The first song attracted notice on websites such as MySpace and YouTube, and was used in a number of commercials and television shows (see below). Only since mid-2007 has the song earned extensive airplay on American radio, most notably on Dance radio outlets like KNHC/Seattle, KNGY/San Francisco and Sirius Satellite's The Beat.
The song was ranked #5 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Tracks of 2006" list[1]. Pitchfork reviewed the song on July 19, 2006, giving it three out of five stars [2]. NME also named the song #2 in their Tracks of the Year 2006.
Planet Sound named this their #2 single of 2006, losing out to Liam Frost's The Mourners of St. Paul's.
On Peter Bjorn and John's recent Australian tour, Victoria Bergsman's vocals were performed by Tracey-Anne Campbell of Camera Obscura. The group performed the song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on 29 January, 2007, and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 18 May, 2007 (the latter with Tonight Show Band member Vicki Randle on bongos).
Vinyl track listing
- "Young Folks" feat. Victoria Bergsman
- "Ancient Curse"
CD track listing
- "Young Folks" feat. Victoria Bergsman
- "Ancient Curse"
- "All Those Expectations"
Use of "Young Folks"
"Young Folks" has been featured in:
- the Grey's Anatomy episode "Let the Angels Commit"
- the How I Met Your Mother episode "Monday Night Football", which aired February 5, 2007
- the weather lady's entrance in "Le Grand Journal" on Canal+
- the Stromberg episode "Lulu"
- the video was played during MTV's 24 Hours of Human Giant
- the fashion show for Chanel's Spring/Summer 2007 ready-to-wear collection
- the fashion show for Banana Republic's Spring 2007 collection
- MTV Australia's Christmas Throwie campaign, which consisted of throwing 2000 glowing LEDs to light up Sydney buildings
- a commercial for AT&T
- an advertisement for Sky Movies recent re-launch
- an advertisement for Napster
- an advertisement for Belgium internet provider Telenet
- an advertisement for Portuguese mobile operator Optimus
- an advertisement for Budweiser
- an in-store advertisement for American Eagle Outfitters
- Australian advertisement for Californication
- Promotional material for the Great British Beer Festival[1]
Covers
- German singer Nena covered "Young Folks" in German as "Ich Kann Nix Dafür" ("It's Not My Fault") for the movie Vollidiot.
- Japanese singer Shugo Tokumaru covered the song in 2006 for the Cokemachineglow fantasy covers podcast. It was released as a single in Japan and received considerable airplay.
- Kanye West has rapped over this beat for his latest mixtape, Can't Tell Me Nothing.