Androgyny (song)
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| Single by Garbage | ||||||||||||
| from the album Beautiful Garbage | ||||||||||||
| B-side | "Begging Bone" | |||||||||||
| Released | September 24, 2001 | |||||||||||
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12", CD maxi, CD single |
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| Recorded | April 2000-May 2001, Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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| Genre | Alternative rock, electronica, pop rock, funk | |||||||||||
| Length | 3:09 | |||||||||||
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Mushroom Records UK Interscope (North America) |
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| Writer(s) | Garbage | |||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Garbage | |||||||||||
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"Androgyny" is a 2001 hybrid rock/pop/funk song released by alternative rock group Garbage as the lead single from their third studio album, Beautiful Garbage. Released worldwide in September 2001, "Androgyny" represented a shift in the group's style, overtly embracing current music elements into their repertoire.
While a moderate success in many markets across the globe, such as in Australia, Canada and in New Zealand, promotion for "Androgyny" and its parent album were put on hold in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The mixed reaction from both critics and Garbage's fanbase to "Androgyny" also contributed to its underperformance on Garbage's home markets of the United Kingdom, where "Androgyny" stalled outside the top twenty, and in United States, where it failed to register on any Billboard charts.
Garbage began the process of writing, recording and self-produced their third album in April 2000 at their own Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. The sessions for the record would last well into the following year; "Androgyny" becoming realised sometime in January 2001. Garbage had been making rough mixes of their work, and had moved a chunk from one musical piece into another to create what would end up as "Androgyny". A classical guitar part written for another song on the album, "Untouchable", was matched with a sparse drum machine pattern written for "Androgyny" during tracking stages. Although it sounded a little crude, the band felt that the piece had character; the band edited it with Pro Tools software and matched it with a synth melody. "It's really three songs stuck together," guitarist Duke Erikson later recalled, "The way we do things is almost like Cubism. It's different viewpoints of the same thing, jammed together on the one canvas".
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