Weapon of Choice (song)
| "Star 69"/"Weapon of Choice" | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Fatboy Slim | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 23 April 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | House, big beat, funk | |||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 5:55 (Star 69) 5:36 (Weapon of Choice) |
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| Label | Skint, Astralwerks | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Norman Cook | |||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Norman Cook | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Star 69"/"Weapon of Choice" is a double A-side single from English big beat musician Fatboy Slim, from his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The single peaked at No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart.
The music video for "Weapon of Choice" directed by Spike Jonze features actor Christopher Walken dancing around a deserted hotel lobby. It won multiple awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards and won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
"Weapon of Choice" features guest vocals from American funk musician Bootsy Collins, known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band.
The vocals on the song consist almost entirely of the repeating verse, "They know what is what, but they don't know what is what, they just strut. What the fuck?", sampled from "I Get Deep" by Roland Clark, which was also used on Fatboy Slim's song "Song for Shelter".
A radio edit of the track exists with the word "fuck" taken out. "Star 69" is popular with DJs and has often been remixed and used in mashups due to the vocal hook.
The song is included in the compilation CD Soundtrack 1: The Definitive Xbox Compilation.
"Weapon of Choice" features Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band bassist Bootsy Collins, who provides the lead vocals on the song. On the album version, Collins's normal vocals are heard through the right audio channel; the same vocals, distorted to a much deeper pitch, are heard through the left. The song features a prominent sample of Sly & the Family Stone's 1968 song "Into My Own Thing", as well as samples from "All Strung Out Over You" by The Chambers Brothers and "Word Play" by The X-Ecutioners, the latter of which was previously sampled on Fatboy Slim's song "Don't Forget Your Teeth", the B-side to his single "Right Here, Right Now", and "Gangster Trippin".
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