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Remind Me (Röyksopp song)

"Remind Me"/"So Easy"
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Single by Röyksopp
from the album Melody A.M.
Released 5 August 2002 (UK)
Format CD, 12"
Recorded 2001
Genre Trip hop, electronica, ambient, easy listening
Length 4:04
Label Wall of Sound (UK)
Astralwerks (U.S.)
Röyksopp singles chronology
"Poor Leno"
(2001)
"Remind Me" / "So Easy"
(2002)
"Poor Leno" (re-release)
(2002)

"Remind Me" is the fourth single by Norwegian duo Röyksopp. The single version of "Remind Me" is a remix and is substantially different from the album version. The vocals on the song are provided by Kings of Convenience singer Erlend Øye.

"Remind Me" was also released as a double A-side single with "So Easy" after the latter was used by telecommunications company T-Mobile in a 2002 television advertisement in the UK; the single reached #21 in the UK Singles Chart. "Remind Me" was used in a 2006 U.S. advertisement for GEICO insurance.

"Remind Me" is a cheery easy listening song with instruments of wavy, acid house-style bass notes, mellow synthesizers and jazz-influenced percussion backing a 1960s-esque dreamy vocal line.

The double A-side single was released on 5 August 2002, a week before Melody A.M. was officially re-released on 12 August 2002, and did well commercially in the United Kingdom. On the UK Singles Chart, it debuted at its peak position of number 21. The song garnered critical acclaim. A writer for the Trouser Press called "Remind Me" close to perfect, while Billboard's Michael Paoletta honored it as a "potent club track".

"Remind Me" has become somewhat famous in the United States due to its association with GEICO insurance. In the fourth GEICO caveman-themed advertisement, a caveman dressed in upscale clothes and carrying a tennis racket is on a moving walkway at an airport. He spots a billboard for GEICO featuring an overly silly representation of a caveman, along with the insulting phrase, "So easy, a caveman could do it." The album version of "Remind Me" plays in the background throughout.


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