The music video was directed by Jonas Odell. The song also later appeared on several top lists from NME, Q and Rolling Stone magazine. It ranked number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number seven on the Canadian Singles Chart. Upon release, the song reached number three on both the Modern Rock Tracks chart and UK Singles Chart. The line "take me out" could be refrencing the Archduke Ferdinand begging the assassins to kill him, as he doesn't want to live without his beloved wife. The lyrics of the song could also be refrencing the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, where his wife was murdered right before him. In the chorus of the song, the narrator says the line »I say, don't you know?«, which is a vague way of saying: ✽on't you know how I feel about you?«, to which to which the girl responds that she doesn't know what he is talking about. But in the end, it is up to the girl to »pull the trigger of the gun«, and make or break the heart of the narrator of the song. The narrator uses the metaphore of a crosshair in the second line of the song, in which he refrences himself as the crosshair and the girl he is interested in as the target. The lyrics of the song tell a story of the narrator checking out a girl at a party. The group later moved to Sweden with producer Tore Johansson to record their debut record in late 2003 and early 2004. The band wanted to release their first EP by themselves, but was later released by Domino Records in 2003 under the name Darts of Pleasure in 2003. The band got signed by the independent label Domino Records. Kapranos later met guitarist Nick McCarthy, whom studied jazz bass in Germany and returned back to Scotland in 2001. The same year, Kapranos gave a bass guitar (which was given to him by Mick Cooke of another Scottish band Belle and Sebastian) to his friend Bob Hardy, and taught him how to play bass. Singer Alex Kapranos met drummer Paul Thomson at a party, and later teamed up to write songs together. The members of the band were in several different bands before the formation of the group. The song was released as the second single from their self titled debut record Franz Ferdinand, which was released on the 9th February 2004. It’s got to feel as if you’re being spoken to as much as sung to in the natural cadences of conversation.Take Me Out is a song by the Scottish indie/dance rock band Franz Ferdinand. Because that’s what’s got to be right, the delivery of the vocals has to be natural. So after we halved it, we sped it up a bit. So, we halved the tempo and then it sounded just a little bit too slow. Then I said look if we half the tempo, it’s going to sound better in the verse. We had this problem, whenever we tried to play it with the band we just couldn’t get it to seem to work. It was kind of like the verse and then I say don’t you know… But we couldn’t get the temp right. Originally, it had a more traditional structure. And that was when the chorus was at the right tempo. Nick was playing along on an old crappy Yamaha synthesizer sort of thing.īut when we wrote it, the temps were wrong. But at the same time, I wanted it to be dance music. Those answering lines is what I was trying to do there. There’s a real dark, sinister element to it. The really sinister-sounding stuff like “ Smokestack Lighting,” that kind of stuff. And some of it kind of-eh-doesn’t really engage me so much. I’ve got a very mixed attitude to blues music. I was trying to do that Hubert Sumlin and Howlin’ Wolf thing of like singing a line and then playing the guitar answer to it. And the guitar line I had, which became like the hook in the main part of the song, that came when I was singing the words, as the words were coming out of my head. And the tension is almost unbearable and you want to the other person-you’re almost desperate to the point where you want the other person to literally take you out or figuratively take you out.
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