but soon after he gets there, he realizes that it's just as bleak as before, except maybe moreso sinch things have changed and old friends are no longer around, so he can't remember what could have made him think it would be so magical, it's no better than when he left. So he finally goes back to Norway all psyched because he built it up so much in his mind as this magical place where he can finally find happiness. the love that traveled far actually just traveled in him and it finally caught up with him that he might have missed out on something really good. so this time England's the place he goes and something there-or something that's not there- is what reminds him of and makes him dwell on being back home in Norway where maybe he had had a girlfriend and it didn't work out or he had to leave.
When he was in England he was constantly missing his home (Norway in this case, I guess) and began to build it up in his mind as the place where he actually wants to be, where he can be happy, maybe. General Commentit's just about the facet of the human condition where one is never happy with what one has and where one is. Will remind, will remind, will remind me, The wise mans tools are analogies and puzzles Īn advertisement for Areva, also created by H5, employs a very similar visual style.But I was missing all that time in England In 2003, Slant Magazine placed it at #74 in its list of the 100 greatest music videos of all time. The video won the award for Best Video at the 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards. "Someone Else's Radio Mix" is the mix used for the audio track in accordance with the single release. It shows a day in the life of a woman working in London's Square Mile solely through infographics this includes labelled close-ups of everyday objects, product lifecycles, schematic diagrams, charts, and is generally illustrated in a simple isometric visual style. The music video for "Remind Me" was directed by Ludovic Houplan and Hervé de Crécy of the French motion graphics studio H5.
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. In the fourth GEICO caveman-themed advertisement, a caveman dressed in contemporary attire and carrying a tennis racket is on a moving walkway at an airport. "Remind Me" has become somewhat famous in the United States due to its association with GEICO insurance. A writer for the Trouser Press called "Remind Me" close to perfect, while Billboard's Michael Paoletta honored it as a "potent club track". On the UK Singles Chart, it debuted at its peak position of number 21. was officially re-released on 12 August 2002, and did well commercially in the United Kingdom. The double A-side single was released on 5 August 2002, a week before Melody A.M. "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. "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. The vocals on the song are provided by Kings of Convenience singer Erlend Øye. The single version of "Remind Me" is a remix by English duo Someone Else, and is substantially different from the album version.
" Remind Me" is the fourth single by Norwegian duo Röyksopp. Svein Berge, Torbjørn Brundtland, Erlend Øye
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