Girl's Not Grey

Infobox Single
Name = Girl's Not Grey


Artist = AFI
from Album = Sing the Sorrow
Released = 2003
Format = CD
Recorded = 2002
Genre = Alternative rock Punk rock
Length = 3:10
Label = DreamWorks
Last single = "The Days of the Phoenix EP" (2000)
This single = "Girl's Not Grey" (2003)
Next single = "The Leaving Song, Pt. II" (2003)|

"Girl's Not Grey" is a single by AFI released in 2003. It is regarded as the song that gave the band widespread North American attentionFact|date=March 2007 and it was their most popular song until "Miss Murder" and still is in the UK.Fact|date=March 2007 Its video won an MTV Video Music Award for Best MTV2 Video in 2003. [ [http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/past-vmas/2003/ MTV Video Music Awards | 2003 | Highlights, Winners, Performers and Photos from the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards | MTV.com ] ] . This song is playable in the video game "Rock Band 2".

Track listing

UK 7"
#"Girl's Not Grey" – 3:10
#"The Hanging Garden" (live at BBC) – 3:45

Europe
#"Girl's Not Grey" – 3:10
#"This Celluloid Dream" (Demo) – 4:18
#"Synesthesia" (Demo) – 4:35
#"Girl's Not Grey" (Final) Clip – 3:11

Germany
#"Girl's Not Grey" – 3:10
#"This Celluloid Dream" (Demo) – 4:18

UK CD 1
#"Girl's Not Grey" - 3:10
#"The Hanging Garden" (live at BBC) - 3:45
#"Synesthesia" (Demo) - 4:35
#"Girl's Not Grey" (Final) Clip - 3:11

UK CD 2
#"Girl's Not Grey" - 3:10
#"Reiver's Music" (336 Sessions) - 3:23
#"Now The World" (336 Sessions) - 4:01
#"Girl's Not Grey" (Prelude) Clip - 3:11

Music video

The video begins with the band playing in an alley. From the alley, a cloud of mist rises. As the band continues to play, a girl with a blue bob haircut walks down the street. She then sees an odd-looking, pink, plush toy-like rabbit look around the corner at her. It then waddles down the alley and literally walks into Jade Puget and disappears. The girl follows the rabbit through the alley and into Jade Puget. The girl and rabbit wind up in a strange world where everything is pink and all the trees have flowers in bloom. Strangely, the girl's appearance changes from real-world to anime-like (though still live action) and the rabbit turns blue (some have commented that the girl looks like Rei Ayanami). The girl looks forward through very tall grass and spots the rabbit waving to her. The girl continues to follow the rabbit until the rabbit shows the girl a cliff and then winds up standing on it. The girl is devastated to see that she is separated from the rabbit. As she turns her back on the rabbit on the cliff, a swirling mass of flower petals begins to encircle her, causing her pain. As she struggles desperately to free herself from the petals, the band plays on, and soon she disappears into the whirlwind of petals, leaving nothing but her pair of golden ballet slippers amidst other people's ballet slippers. The band is back in the alley and a flurry of petals come flying out of Davey Havok's chest as the song ends. The video could also be referring to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland novel in which a little girl follows a rabbit into an alternate reality.

There is also an alternate video [ [http://youtube.com/watch?v=n2rmgpASyKY YouTube - AFI - Girl's Not Grey - RARE GREY VERSION ] ] . In the video each member of the band is covered entirely in black paint, and they are playing the song in the alley. There are no signs of the girl, rabbit, or the alternate world.

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