Smiley Faces


"Smiley Faces" is a song by Gnarls Barkley and is featured on their debut album, St. Elsewhere. It was released 17 July 2006 as the second single from that album in the United Kingdom.

Music videos

Like the single "Crazy", there are also two different music videos for this song.
The mockumentary-style music video for "Smiley Faces", directed by Robert Hales shows a music historian and an A&R executive being interviewed about whether or not Gnarls Barkley exists and pondering over whether Barkley is behind the music scene. The video shows musical acts and cultural events from the 1920s to the 1990s, with Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse in the background. The effect is similar to that of Woody Allen editing himself into archival film footage in Zelig. In September 2007, the video won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing. There was another music video made directed by Marc Klasfeld and animated by Edgar Reyes, featuring an instant messaging smiley with a gangster smileys' wife, going to a sex dungeon, killing the gangster with a chainsaw, getting arrested and sent to prison, getting broken out of prison by the gangsters' wife, being at a Gnarls Barkley concert, drinking a lot and being sick, going home with the gangsters wife and then her getting three of her topless friends, with the main smiley being very happy. This video was originally put on music channels before the mockumentary video, but was banned due to sexual scenes and violent scenes. This video for it can still be found on YouTube, however. Still another video version, popular on YouTube features Mark Monero.

Trivia

The song was used in Season 4 of Strictly Come Dancing. Louisa Lytton and her professional partner Vincent Simone danced the Jive to the song and scored the first 10 of the series.

Track listing

; UK CD1
  1. "Smiley Faces" - 3:05
  2. "Smiley Faces" - 3:14
; UK CD2
  1. "Smiley Faces" - 2:43
  2. "Go-Go Gadget Gospel" - 2:15
  3. "Crazy" - 3:00
  4. "Exclusive Microsite"
; UK 12" Vinyl
  1. "Smiley Faces" - 3:05
  2. "Go-Go Gadget Gospel" - 2:15
  3. "Smiley Faces" - 3:10

    Charts

The song entered the UK Official Download Chart on 3 May 2006 at number 152. It reached its peak at number 12 on July 9, 2006. It then entered the UK Singles Chart on July 16, 2006 at number 23 based on download sales alone, climbing to number 10 after the physical release was available.
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