Breaking Up the Girl
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| Single by Garbage | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Beautiful Garbage | ||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Candy Says" "Happiness Pt.2" "Confidence" |
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| Released | December 8, 2001 | |||||||||||||||||
| Format | 12", CD single, CD maxi | |||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | April 2000–May 2001, Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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| Length | 3:33 | |||||||||||||||||
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Mushroom Records UK Interscope (North America) |
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| Writer(s) | Garbage | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Garbage | |||||||||||||||||
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"Breaking Up the Girl" is a 2001 alternative rock song written, recorded and produced by Garbage for their third studio album Beautiful Garbage.
In North America, "Breaking Up the Girl" was serviced to alternative radio as the second single to be lifted from the album. The single release coincided with Rolling Stone publishing their critics' Albums of the Year list, on which Beautiful Garbage was ranked the sixth best release of 2001. "Breaking Up the Girl" was licensed out as the theme tune to Is It College Yet?, the final episode of the long-running animated series Daria, which premiered on MTV as a TV movie in January 2002.
"Breaking Up the Girl" was subsequently released internationally in April 2002, where it supported the band's UK and European tour. The single reached the top forty in both Australia and United Kingdom.
"Breaking Up the Girl" was written and recorded by Garbage between April 2000 and May 2001 at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin during the year-long writing sessions for Beautiful Garbage. At some point in this period of time, Shirley Manson had overheard the rest of the band working on the body of the song, and was inspired to write the melody and lyrics. During the development of the song, Garbage experimented with Beatles-like harmonies and ad-libs over the coda. and layered a vocal from Manson onto a matching guitar part. "We sampled her going 'aah' and Duke played guitar," Butch Vig explained,"and that made it sound like a weird little melodic quote, not necessarily a vocal part". Although it was one of the album's straightforward rock songs, Garbage couldn't agree on the bass/kickdrum pattern in the chorus, trying various transmutations of a one-bar phrase. Using his Fender Precision Bass and pick, session musician Daniel Shulman created a McCartney-esque bass movement for the verse. Vig felt that the strumming of the guitar chords gave the song a Big Star feel.
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