"The Denial Twist" is the third single released from American alternative rock band The White Stripes' 2005 album, Get Behind Me Satan.

Track listing[link]

• CD version

1. "The Denial Twist" – 2:35
2. "Shelter of Your Arms" (The Greenhornes cover) – 3:30

• 7" version 1

1. "The Denial Twist" (album version)
2. "Shelter of Your Arms" (The Greenhornes cover) (album version)

• 7" version 2

1. "The Denial Twist" (Live on KCRW)
2. "As Ugly as I Seem" (Live on KCRW)

Music video[link]

The music video for "The Denial Twist" was directed by Michel Gondry. Like some of his previous work (namely The Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be" and Kylie Minogue's "Come Into My World"), the video features a spectacular array of visual effects as it follows The White Stripes from a talk show performance to a late night drive back to an apartment. As the camera pans in a circle, Jack and Meg appear distorted. This refers to the lyric of the song; that what people think is true is often shaped by the context in which information is presented to them and their willingness to be deceived—even by themselves—as various aspects of the video radically shift in perspective, size, proportion and believability. The choice of Late Night with Conan O'Brien as a setting for the video, aside from the band's personal association, is due to the lesser known fact that, like many film and TV sets, the Late Night stage looks much larger on television than it actually is.

The optical illusion used in the video is the technique of forced perspective, through an Ames room and distortions derived from it.

The creators of the distorted props, Jeff Everett and John Furgason, won a Music Video Production Association Award for Art Direction in 2006.^[1]

Conan O'Brien makes a cameo appearance in the video; The White Stripes had been a week-long musical guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien when they were promoting Elephant. The square-headed O'Brien doll in the video was a reference to a similar one given to the comedian at the end of their week-long stay on the show. The plaster blow-up was actually created by Gondry.

Writer Tom Breihan, who runs the Status Ain't Hood blog at the Village Voice website, also appears in the video. He blogged about his experience shooting the video before it came out, which led to Jack White insulting him in an interview with the British magazine NME.

This is Gondry's fourth video with The White Stripes, after "Fell in Love with a Girl", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" and "The Hardest Button to Button". The video can be found on the DVD compilation Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1)

The song is also the final 3" record made for the triple inchophone. However, it was never on general sale and only Jack himself had them to give out to fans, friends and family. These 3" records are extremely rare and very few have ever come up for sale on eBay.

References[link]

External links[link]

• "The Denial Twist" video details

The Denial is a 1925 film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Claire Windsor, Bert Roach, William Haines, Lucille Ricksen and Robert Agnew. It is written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the play by Lewis Beach. Lucille Ricksen, a promising young starlet, died of tuberculosis at age fifteen one week before the film's release. The film is considered partially lost.^[1]

Plot[link]

The past comes rushing back as a daughter (Lucille Ricksen) asks her Mother (Claire Windsor) to marry a young officer (Robert Agnew). The Mother's similar history from years past is presented in flashbacks.

Cast[link]

• Claire Windsor - The Mother
• Bert Roach - Arthur
• William Haines - Lover in flashback
• Lucille Ricksen - The daughter
• Robert Agnew - Young officer
• Emily Fitzroy - Rena, Mother in flashback
• William Eugene - Eugene
• Estelle Clark - Rosie
• Vivia Ogden - Effie

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Denial at the Internet Movie Database

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Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born June 4, 1972) is an American singer whose music combines elements of funk, soul, and blues. She also had a career as a child singer starting in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of notable music producer Don Costa and is married to Australian producer/songwriter Justin Stanley.

Early life[link]

Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan.^[1] Her father Don Costa was a notable producer and a musician with many connections in the music business. During her childhood Costa was surrounded by famous musicians and traveled around the world with her father.^[1]

At age 5 Costa recorded a single with Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Italian producers Danny B. Besquet and Tony Renis were working with her father on the album Don Costa Plays the Beatles when they had a brainstorm to produce an album with Nikka singing while her father played acoustic guitar. The album was well-received in Europe and Costa became known as a child star. At age 9 Costa sang with Frank Sinatra in an appearance on the lawn of the White House.^[2]

Costa's career as a recording artist under her own name started in 1981, when she recorded the song "(Out Here) On My Own" (from the musical Fame). The single, recorded in Milano with the conductor Victor Bach and produced by Besquet and Renis, spent fourteen weeks at #1 in Italy, nine weeks at #1 in Spain, and five weeks at #1 in France. The song also reached #7 in Switzerland and #32 in the Netherlands. The album Nikka Costa, produced by Besquet and Remis, was released outside the U.S. in 1981. The album reached #1 in Europe and South America^{[citation needed]} and Costa toured around the world.^[1] Her second album Fairy Tales (cuentos de hadas) was released in 1983. Don Costa died of a heart attack shortly after the album was recorded. The pop album Here I Am... Yes, It's Me was released to fulfill a contractual obligation in 1989, though it still topped some charts in Europe.^[1] In 1990 she performed at the SanRemo Music Festival with a rendition of All for the Love, an English version of Vattene amore by Mietta and Amedeo Minghi.

After graduating from high school, Costa decided to move away from pop and moved toward funk and soul, becoming influenced by Motown artists.^[1]

Adult career[link]

While already a music business veteran, in the early 1990s Costa transitioned away from childhood pop to mature soul. She married Australian producer/songwriter Justin Stanley and moved to his country. (Costa and Stanley now have a daughter named Sugar McQueen.) While in Australia, Costa began writing her own songs and formed a "happy funk" band called Little Mona & The Shag Daddies, which broke up after four gigs in Sydney. Costa's next venture was a band called Sugarbone, which toured Australia in 1994. Costa describes the experience as "It was really scary to unveil it but the reaction was good. It helped my confidence." ^[3] After Sugarbone, she signed to the Mushroom label in Australia. In 1996 Costa released the album Butterfly Rocket in Australia, which reached the Top 20. The record led to a nomination for ARIA Music Awards Breakthrough Artist in 1996 and Best Female Artist in 1997.^[4]

In 2000, Costa's song "Like A Feather" was featured in a Tommy Hilfiger television advertising campaign. That exposure coupled with the track's music video helped launch her U.S. music career. The album Everybody Got Their Something was released in 2001 and reached #120 on the Billboard 200. The title track and "Like a Feather" were radio hits, although the latter did peak in the UK Singles Chart at #53.^[5] In 2005, Costa released the album can'tneverdidnothin'. She toured with Lenny Kravitz who also performed on the record. In 2006 she and her husband Justin recorded and performed the theme to the short-lived CBS sitcom "Courting Alex", which starred Jenna Elfman.

Costa was a guest singer on Mark Ronson's album Here Comes the Fuzz. Ronson has produced some of Costa's songs.^[6] Her song "Push & Pull" from the album Everybody Got Their Something is included in the soundtrack of the 2001 movie Blow starring Johnny Depp. Her song "Everybody Got Their Something", was used in the soundtrack of the 2009 movie All About Steve starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper. Her song "Stuck To You" from the album Pebble to a Pearl was used in an episode of Grey's Anatomy in season five.

Costa is currently signed with Stax Records.^[7] Her latest studio album Pebble to a Pearl was released on October 14, 2008. In 2010 she released the single "Ching Ching Ching" in Europe. The song is notable from a genre change from soul/funk to electro-pop. The single reached #77 in Germany, making it Costa's first single to chart in Germany since "On My Own" in 1981. A new album titled PRO★WHOA! was set for release in late 2010 but has been delayed until early 2011. Costa co-wrote the song "Diamonds Made from Rain" on Eric Clapton's 2010 album Clapton.

Costa sings a reinterpreted version of the INXS hit "Kick", on the INXS album Original Sin, digitally released in Australia in October 2010, and in the United States in April 2011.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Nikka Costa (1981) - Released in Europe and South America
• Fairy Tales aka Cuentos de Hadas (1983) - Spanish album, released in Europe and South America
• Here I Am... Yes, It's Me aka Loca Tentación (1989) - Spanish album, released in Europe and South America
• Butterfly Rocket (1996) - Released only in Australia
• Everybody Got Their Something (2001) - US #120
• can'tneverdidnothin' (2005) - US #157
• Pebble to a Pearl (2008) - US #157
• PRO★WHOA! (2011)

Demos[link]

• Sugarbone (1994) - Three-track demo tape recorded in Australia
• Everybody Got Their Something - Demo (2001) - Featuring unreleased tracks and alternate mixes from the album sessions
• Can'tneverdidnothin' - Unreleased Version (2004) - Featuring unreleased tracks and alternate mixes from the album sessions

Remix albums[link]

• Return of the Funky White Bitch (2001) - a promo release featuring remixed versions of songs from Everybody Got Their Something, with remixes by Mark Ronson

Live albums[link]

• Live at the Bridge (1996) - EP bundled with the re-released version of Butterfly Rocket
• Live in Tokyo (2001) - promo CDR featuring a performance at Astro Hall
• Live at the Roxy (2005) - DVD sold at concerts

References[link]