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Frank Sinatra (Miss Kittin & The Hacker song)

"Frank Sinatra"
Single by Miss Kittin & The Hacker
from the album First Album
Released 2000
Format CD single, Vinyl
Genre Electronica, electroclash
Label XYZ Records, Emperor Norton
Songwriter(s) Caroline Hervé, Michel Amato
Producer(s) Caroline Hervé, Michel Amato
Miss Kittin singles chronology
"The Vogue"
(2000)
"Frank Sinatra"
(2000)
"Silver Screen Shower Scene"
(2001)
"The Vogue"
(2000)
"Frank Sinatra"
(2000)
"Silver Screen Shower Scene"
(2001)
Music video
"Frank Sinatra" on YouTube

"Frank Sinatra" is a song by French recording duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker. It is the second single from their debut album as a duo First Album (2001). The song was originally included on the duo's 1998 EP Champagne and became an anthem of the electroclash scene. Miss Kittin included the song on her DJ mix album On the Road.

Miss Kittin explained in an interview that the song was inspired by her love of Frank Sinatra and jazz music.

"I love Frank Sinatra and the American crooners and romantic jazz in general. I was looking for a rhyme to "area" and here it came. What you don't know, is when I said "He's dead", I really thought he was... A friend told me it was funny because he's still alive... I couldn't believe it and felt guilty, especially when he died three months later..."

"Frank Sinatra" is credited as an electroclash and techno song, and is noted for its use of deadpan. In the song, Miss Kittin discusses having sex in limousines. According to Terry Sawyer of PopMatters, "In a deadpan cadence done in the accent of Ilsa the She-Wolf of The SS, Miss Kittin [...], created decadent club music for people too arch and smart for typical white label fare. It was a deader and more desolate take on tired convention of the house beat and unknown diva repeating a pithy chorus ad nauseum [sic], an alleged elevation of cliché through the detachment of kitsch.

Adam Bregman of Allmusic described the song as "undoubtedly the standout cut on the album." Ed Gonzalez, writing for Slant Magazine, said, "Backed by The Hacker's happy-to-be-cheap retro production, Miss Kittin provides the ultimate electroclash statement: she makes social climbing sound so stupid and empty, while reveling in it."


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