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"Fell in Love with a Girl"
Single by The White Stripes from the album White Blood Cells
Released	April 23, 2002 (UK)
Format	CD single, 7" single
Genre	Alternative, punk blues
Length	1:50
Label	XL
Writer	Jack White
Producer	Jack White
The White Stripes singles chronology
"Hotel Yorba" (2001) "Fell in Love with a Girl" (2002) "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" (2002)

"Fell in Love with a Girl" is an alternative song written and produced by The White Stripes member Jack White for the band's third studio album, White Blood Cells (2001). Released as the album's second single in 2002, it reached number twenty-one on the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (which roughly corresponds to number one hundred and twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100) and the United Kingdom. The song was covered in 2003 as "Fell in Love with a Boy" by Joss Stone and as a lounge song by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine for their second album, Tuxicity (2002). It was also included on a polka medley by "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Angry White Boy Polka", from his 2003 album Poodle Hat.

The April issue of Rolling Stone magazine listed the song as one of the forty songs that changed rock history.

Contents 1 Music video 2 Track listings and formats 3 Charts 4 Joss Stone version 4.1 Chart performance 4.2 Track listings and formats 4.3 Credits and personnel 4.4 Production 4.5 Charts 5 References 6 External links

The music video is a Lego animation directed by Michel Gondry. It was shot frame by frame with each frame having the Lego bricks rebuilt, sometimes in a complex manner to seem as if it were an actual shot, and then formed together to give the illusion of motion. The video mostly consists of red, white, and black color.

In an interview for the The Work of Director Michel Gondry DVD, Jack stated that the White Stripes' long-time collaboration with Michel Gondry started by accident; for "Fell In Love with a Girl", Jack stated that he wanted to work with the director who did Beck's video for "Devils Haircut", referring to Mark Romanek. Their record company mistakenly hired Gondry, thinking he was the director of "Devils Haircut". Jack didn't mind, as he also did the video for Beck's "Deadweight", which Jack also liked.

The video won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2002: "Breakthrough Video", "Best Special Effects", and "Best Editing". It also received a nomination for "Video of the Year", but lost out to Eminem's "Without Me".

CD single

1. "Fell in Love with a Girl"
2. "Let's Shake Hands"
3. "Lafayette Blues"

7" single

1. "Fell in Love with a Girl"
2. "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (live at BBC Radio-1 Evening Session)

• this is the same recording of the song that would one year later be an album track on Elephant and eventually be released as a single

Chart (2004)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	21
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles	21
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	12

"Fell in Love with a Boy"
Single by Joss Stone from the album The Soul Sessions
Released	26 January 2004 (UK) 27 January 2004 (U.S.)
Format	CD single, 7" single, digital download
Recorded	The Studio (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre	Soul, blues
Length	3:38
Label	Relentless
Writer	Jack White
Producer	Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, Betty Wright, Steve Greenberg, Mike Mangini
Joss Stone singles chronology
"Fell in Love with a Boy" (2004) "Super Duper Love" (2004)
Alternate covers
British 7" single cover
British promo CD single cover
American promo CD single cover

In 2003, English soul singer Joss Stone covered the song, retitled as "Fell in Love with a Boy", for her debut album The Soul Sessions (2003). It was released in early 2004 as the album's first single.

"Fell in Love with a Boy" topped the Argentinian Singles Chart, which helped the song to peak at number fourteen on the Top Latino.^[1] It also peaked at number eighteen on the UK Singles Chart.

British CD single

1. "Fell in Love with a Boy" (Radio Version) – 2:25
2. "Victim of a Foolish Heart" (Live at Ronnie Scott's, London, November 25, 2003) – 6:25

European CD single

1. "Fell in Love with a Boy" (Radio Version) – 2:25
2. "Victim of a Foolish Heart" (Live at Ronnie Scott's, London, November 25, 2003) – 6:25
3. "Fell in Love with a Boy" (Acoustic Version) – 3:30

British 7" single

Side A:

1. "Fell in Love with a Boy" (Radio Version) – 2:25

Side B:

1. "Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin' on Me?) Pt. 1" – 4:20

British and American promo CD single

1. "Fell in Love with a Boy" (Radio Version) – 2:25

• Joss Stone – lead vocals
• Angie Stone – background vocals
• Betty Wright – background vocals
• Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson – drums
• Kirk Douglas – guitar
• Adam Blackstone – bass
• James Poyser – keyboard
• Kamal – keyboard

• Producers: Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, Betty Wright, Steve Greenberg, and Mike Mangini
• Engineer: Steve Greenwell
• Mixer: Steve Greenwell

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Argentina Top 40	1
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles	62
German Airplay Chart	66
Irish Singles Chart	46
Italian Singles Chart	31
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	23
Top Latino	14
UK Singles Chart	18
World R&B Top 30 Singles	21

• "Director brings White Stripes video to life with LEGO bricks", on the video by Michel Gondry from LEGO.com
• Music video for "Fell in Love with a Girl" at YouTube
• Music video for "Fell in Love with a Boy" at YouTube

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Discography
Albums: The White Stripes | De Stijl | White Blood Cells | Elephant | Get Behind Me Satan | Icky Thump
EPs: Walking with a Ghost | Conquest
Singles: "Let's Shake Hands" | "Lafayette Blues" | "The Big Three Killed My Baby" | "Hand Springs" | "Hello Operator" | "Lord, Send Me an Angel" | "Party of Special Things to Do" | "Hotel Yorba" | "Fell in Love with a Girl" | "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" | "We're Going to Be Friends" | "Red Death at 6:14" | "Candy Cane Children" | "Seven Nation Army" | "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" | "The Hardest Button to Button" | "There's No Home for You Here" | "Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)" | "Blue Orchid" | "My Doorbell" | "The Denial Twist" | "Icky Thump" | "Rag and Bone" | "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" | "Conquest"
DVDs: Candy Coloured Blues (unofficial) | Under Blackpool Lights
Other projects: Aluminium
Related articles
Sympathy for the Record Industry | Third Man Records | Ian Montone | The Upholsterers | The Go | The Raconteurs

v • d • e Joss Stone
Albums	The Soul Sessions · Mind, Body & Soul · Introducing Joss Stone
Singles	"Fell in Love with a Boy" · "Super Duper Love" · "You Had Me" · "Right to Be Wrong" · "Spoiled" · "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" · "Tell Me 'Bout It" · "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now" · "Baby Baby Baby"
Other songs	"Cry Baby/Piece of My Heart" · "Cry Baby Cry" · "L-O-V-E"
DVD	Mind, Body & Soul Sessions: Live in New York City
Related articles	Discography