Lucas With The Lid Off

"Lucas With The Lid Off"
Single by Lucas
Released October 1994
Genre Jazz 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 a 1994 song by Danish rapper Lucas Secon that was released as the lead single from his album Lucacentric. The single was a hit in the United States, reaching number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100[2] and number 22 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.[3]

The video for the song was directed by the French film maker Michel Gondry[4] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.[5]

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.'"[6]

Lucas With The Lid Off was nominated in the Best Music Video (short form) category at the 37th Grammy Awards,[7] (one of two Michel Gondry music videos nominated that year, the other being Sinead O'Connor‘s Fire On Babylon)[8]

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.[9]

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.[12]

References

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