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“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.
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  • The Reminder
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  • The Reminder (Deluxe Edition)
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  • agentzigzag

    love the live video ......

    Friday evening

  • Deadr0ckSJ

    A good song to say the least, although probably one of Feist's weakest.

    18 days ago

  • karolcia_1993

    I always sing the Sesame Street lyrics to this by mistake. [2] haha me too! my 1,5 year-old goddaughter just loves that version, so I watch it with her a lot, and then I'm snging wrong lyrics when I'm listening to the real version :D

    18 days ago

  • abunono

    Sie dreht sich schwerelos und fliegt/Tinuviel,die Elbenmagd

    23 days ago

  • abunono

    Spitzt er das Ohr und freut sich sehr/Und lacht und lacht sich was

    last month

  • wolfy76484

    a good feelings track..lovely..

    March 2012

  • Fabio001

    Does she ever perform this anymore?

    March 2012

  • riverflows

    i knew the sesame street version before the original

    February 2012

  • TweeLittleThing

    I always sing the Sesame Street lyrics to this by mistake.

    February 2012

  • livesincologne

    LOOVE IT

    December 2011

  • kielmaru

    "(pronounced “One Two Three Four”)" lol thanks, I didn't know it was pronounced that way!

    November 2011

  • vanilla_boy1

    nice:-)

    November 2011

  • escritora84

    This song always makes me think of skittles.

    November 2011

  • MonkeyPellets

    i always thought she was saying "tell me what my uterus is for" oh lordy.

    November 2011

  • GarethSherry

    Cracking song.

    September 2011

  • nofuqureality

    The first time I heard this, I felt a feeling of inner warmth, which I still feel today. [3]

    September 2011

  • jomabbs

    ipod's!!!!!!!

    September 2011

  • MarleenKelley

    my mom hates this song but i think its AMAZIN!

    August 2011

  • omninerder

    That fucking advert has ruined this song for me.

    August 2011

  • Endymion85

    Great feel good song love it!!

    August 2011
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