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About This Track
“1234” (pronounced “One Two Three Four”) is a song from Feist’s third studio album, The Reminder’‘. It is Feist’s most successful single to date, having been featured in an iPod Nano commercial.
The original song was written by Sally Seltmann, a Melbourne, Australia singer-songwriter who records under the name New Buffalo, and Feist added and rewrote parts of the lyrics. In an interview with Songfacts, Seltmann said:
I had been listening to Feist’s album Let It Die . I thought my little song about lost love, and the hope to recapture what you once had, sounded too much like a Feist song for me to use for New Buffalo, so I shelved it. Then, in late 2005 I did a tour across Canada supporting Feist, and []. After meeting Feist, I started to wonder whether she might like to do a cover of “1234,” but I was too shy to tell her about it. At the last Broken Social Scene show, I plucked up the courage to tell her that I had written a song which I thought she might like to use. We went onto the tour bus, and I recorded a simple version of the song into her laptop, with guitar and vocals. To my surprise, she loved the song, and started playing it live.
“1234” was nominated for Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Video.
The original song was written by Sally Seltmann, a Melbourne, Australia singer-songwriter who records under the name New Buffalo, and Feist added and rewrote parts of the lyrics. In an interview with Songfacts, Seltmann said:
I had been listening to Feist’s album Let It Die . I thought my little song about lost love, and the hope to recapture what you once had, sounded too much like a Feist song for me to use for New Buffalo, so I shelved it. Then, in late 2005 I did a tour across Canada supporting Feist, and []. After meeting Feist, I started to wonder whether she might like to do a cover of “1234,” but I was too shy to tell her about it. At the last Broken Social Scene show, I plucked up the courage to tell her that I had written a song which I thought she might like to use. We went onto the tour bus, and I recorded a simple version of the song into her laptop, with guitar and vocals. To my surprise, she loved the song, and started playing it live.
“1234” was nominated for Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Video.
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TweeLittleThing wrote:
I always sing the Sesame Street lyrics to this by mistake.
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livesincologne wrote:
LOOVE IT
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kielmaru wrote:
"(pronounced “One Two Three Four”)" lol thanks, I didn't know it was pronounced that way!
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vanilla_boy1 wrote:
nice:-)
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escritora84 wrote:
This song always makes me think of skittles.
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MonkeyPellets wrote:
i always thought she was saying "tell me what my uterus is for" oh lordy.
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Dean-AutumnKn wrote:
:')
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GarethSherry wrote:
Cracking song.
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nofuqureality wrote:
The first time I heard this, I felt a feeling of inner warmth, which I still feel today. [3]
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jomabbs wrote:
ipod's!!!!!!!
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MarleenKelley wrote:
my mom hates this song but i think its AMAZIN!
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omninerder wrote:
That fucking advert has ruined this song for me.
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Endymion85 wrote:
Great feel good song love it!!
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myinterwebs wrote:
<3
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tahbyfet wrote:
Teenage hoes!
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bicknor wrote:
Uno dos tres cuatro, or even un deux trois quatre. Or, perhaps, eins zwei drei vier. The last one best done whilst goosestepping!
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Eleventyfour wrote:
The first time I heard this, I felt a feeling of inner warmth, which I still feel today. [2]
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ilovemus34 wrote:
The first time I heard this, I felt a feeling of inner warmth, which I still feel today.
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ilovemus34 wrote:
This might be my favorite song. Ever.(2)
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Judester69 wrote:
First song I ever heard from her(: amazing.
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