| Lucky Star | |
| Cover: | Lucky Star (Basement Jaxx song).jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Basement Jaxx featuring Dizzee Rascal |
| Album: | Kish Kash |
| Released: | [1] |
| Length: |
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| Label: | XL |
| Producer: | Basement Jaxx |
| Chronology: | Basement Jaxx |
| Prev Title: | Do Your Thing |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Good Luck |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
"Lucky Star" is a song by British electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. It was released as a single from their third studio album, Kish Kash. The song features grime artist Dizzee Rascal[2] and Mona Singh,[3] the daughter of Channi Singh. It was released under XL Recordings, the same label Dizzee Rascal himself was on at the time of release. It was released as a 12" single, and reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart.
A music video was produced to promote the single.
AllMusic's John Bush stated: "Teenage garage-rap sensation Dizzee Rascal turns in a fabulous outré performance on "Lucky Star," but the Indian filmi sample driving the song displays Basement Jaxx in a light they've never been in before: behind the times."[4]
While comparing the album's sound to "the aural equivalent of Shiva's rainbow cumshot," Mark Pytlik from Pitchfork Media stated: "Oh well-- at least Felix and Simon had the good sense to dress Dizzee up in pretty colors while they had him."[5]
The video for "Lucky Star" was directed by Katie Dawson and shot at London-based Camden Studio, with a guest appearance by Rascal. Dawson was picked directly from the duo after they saw her directorial work for MTV and wanted to create something similar.[6]
Dawson stated the video was "the quickest turn around job" she has ever worked on. "I was approached late in the day on a Thursday. The band wanted to see a treatment by Friday morning. They loved it and gave the go ahead to shoot the following Wednesday," she said. Later on, the casting for a belly dancer, martial arts expert, gymnast, rocket girl, breakdancer with booking crew and studio were all finished within two days.[6]
A chroma key studio background from the Camden Studio was used.[7] After shooting the green screen shots, the duo needed the edit complete with all compositing and animations finished by the following week.
"Sticking Dizzee's head on a radioactive child's dancing body was never going to be straight forward; but I've always said directing is a group effort and with something this complicated having a great team around you made it really enjoyable even though I didn't get much sleep that week," Dawson said.[6]