The White Stripes are an American rock duo, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar, piano, and once bass and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals). After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit independent music underground, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock revival scene. Their successful albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom. \"Blue Orchid\" is the first track by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes from their album Get Behind Me Satan, and the first single to be released from the album. The recorded sound is produced by an playing a guitar into an Electro-Harmonix creation, the Polyphonic Octave Generator (POG). Live, the sound is produced by a bass-rich guitar tone, used in combination with Whammy Pedal and the POG to create the heavily metallic sounding breaks of the song (\"How dare you, how old are you now anyway\" and \"get behind me, get behind me now anyway\".) The single comes in three editions, each with different additional tracks. All three covers feature two people dressed up as The White Stripes, but are noticeably different people. The first CD and the 7\" feature the couple in the same order as Get Behind Me Satan, with \'Jack\' on the right. The second CD version features \'Jack\' on the left. In an NPR interview, Jack White referred to \"Blue Orchid\" as the song that saved the album. He has denied that the song relates to the ending of his relationship with Renée Zellweger. The video for \"Blue Orchid\" was on Yahoo!\'s Top Twenty Scariest Music Videos of all Time, charting at number 13. It features Karen Elson, a model who would marry Jack White soon after the shoot. The video, which was directed by Floria Sigismondi, ends with a horse, its hooves raised in the air, about to stomp on Elson, but just before the hooves land on her, the video quickly goes black, ending. \"Blue Orchid\" has been remixed by High Contrast on the album Fabric Live 25. It is the first track on the second disc of the album. It features the main guitar riff accompanied by a largely drum and bass inspired backing beat. The vocals from the song, \"You took a white orchid, you took a white orchid and turned it blue\" are repeated at various points throughout the track. The song is used as the theme song for the Australian Radio Show Wil & Lehmo on Triple M; it is also used briefly in the trailer for the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud, in which Jack White features with other musical artists The Edge and Jimmy Page. The song is also playable in the music video game Guitar Hero 5. Single by The White Stripes from the album Get Behind Me Satan Released May 30, 2005 Format CD, 7\" Recorded March 2005 Genre Alternative rock, garage rock Length 2:37 Label XL Recordings Producer Jack White