Lucas With The Lid Off

"Lucas With The Lid Off"
Single by Lucas
Released October, 1994
Genre Hip hop, Dance, Pop Rap
Length 4:02 [1]
Label Big Beat
Lucas singles chronology
Wau Wau Wau
(1994)		 Lucas With The Lid Off
(1994)

Lucas With The Lid Off is the lead single from the album Lucacentric by Lucas Secon. The single made the top 30 in four separate Billboard charts[2] including the Mainstream and the Hot 100 charts.

The video for the song was directed by the French film maker and Oscar-winning director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry[3] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video (short form) at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.[4]

The song was featured in the Jennifer Love Hewitt film, Can’t Hardly Wait.

Michel Gondry video

The video is notable for it’s technical achievement in that it was shot in one long continuous single take with no edits, cuts or digital enhancement. In a RES magazine interview, Gondry explained:

"Michel called this video 'a big turn for me, because it was so challenging. Nobody really believed - even me - that we could pull that off when we made it after 17 takes, because it was really done all in-camera in one shot. There is no post-production at all. I think this one really gave me a lot of attention.'"[5]

Lucas With The Lid Off was nominated in the Best Music Video (short form) category at the 37th Grammy Awards,[6] (one of two Michel Gondry music videos nominated that year, the other being Sinead O'Connor‘s Fire On Babylon)[7]

The video was also received a MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, and was no.20 in Slant Magazine’s 100 Greatest Music Videos.[8]

Film featured music

Cover versions

On the album A Century of Song (Polyholiday Records), Lucas With The Lid Off was covered by the American band La Musique Populaire.[11]

References

  1. ↑ iTunes: Lucacentric: track listing
  2. ↑ All Music: Lucas: Lucas With The Lid Off - Billboard chart placings
  3. ↑ Michel Gondry website: videos: Lucas
  4. ↑ Los AngelesTimes, 37th Grammy Award Nominations, best music video (short form)
  5. ↑ Director: RES magazine interview, Michel Gondry
  6. ↑ Los AngelesTimes, 37th Grammy Award Nominations, best music video (short form)
  7. ↑ Michel Gondry website: videos: Sinead O’Connor
  8. ↑ Slant magazine: 100 greatest Music Videos
  9. ↑ IMDB: soundtrack: Can’t Hardly Wait
  10. ↑ IMDB: soundtrack: Can’t Hardly Wait - Lucas With The Lid Off
  11. ↑ Polyholiday records: discography - A Century Of Song

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