Great DJ
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| Single by The Ting Tings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album We Started Nothing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Genre | dance-punk, new wave | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Jules De Martino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Great DJ" is the second single by English indie pop band The Ting Tings. Vocalist Katie White states that the song was written by "playing a D chord on the guitar for hours, because that's all I could play. And then I put my finger on the wrong string, and got what I discovered was an augmented chord. And that was the riff!" The single was originally released as a double A-side along with "That's Not My Name".
When "Great DJ" was re-released it did not enter the UK Singles Chart until one week after the individual re-release of single "That's Not My Name" went to number one.
The cover sleeves for the single were in fact recycled: Katie White and Jules De Martino gathered old 7" records from numerous car boot sales and charity shops in and around Manchester, turned the sleeves inside out and customised them to create new sleeves for this single.
The song samples chords and drum beat from Eddie Money's 1978 hit "Baby Hold On".
"Great DJ" was featured on iTunes' free single of the week in Canada where it received an average of 3½ stars.
"Great DJ" was featured in the movie, The House Bunny as well as in the 2-hour season premiere of 90210 and in the movie, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. The song was also used as an insert song for the Fuji TV 2010 spring Japanese television drama, Sunao ni Narenakute. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" was also featured. The track also appears on the soundtrack of American Teen. "Great DJ" is also the trailer music for the movies, Slumdog Millionaire and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and was used in commercials for Year One.
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