Tender (song)

Single infobox
Name = Tender


Artist = Blur
from Album = 13
Released = Start date|1999|02|14 (Japan)
February 22, 1999 (UK)
March 1, 1999 (Europe; UK: 7")
Format = 7" vinyl, cassette, 2 x CD
Recorded = 1998
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 7 min 40 s (album version)
Label = Food (UK)
EMI
Producer = William Orbit
Chart position =
* #2 (UK)
* #3 (Italy)
* #29 (Sweden)
* #32 (Australia)
* #45 (Switzerland)
* #94 (Germany)
Reviews =
*"All Music Guide"
(3/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:z23m96hogep1 Part 1]
(2.5/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gsb1z87a1yv4 Part 2]
(2.5/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zl5a8qp9btn4 Australia CD]
Last single = "M.O.R."
(1997)
This single = "Tender"
(1999)
Next single = "Coffee & TV"
(1999)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = single

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Lower caption = Enhanced CD Cover "Tender" is a song by the band Blur. It is the first track on their sixth album "13" and was also released as the lead single before the album's release. The single reached #2 in the UK singles chart - kept off #1 by Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time".

The song was written by Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon and the vocals are shared on the track. Following Coxon's departure from the group, Blur continued to perform the song live with Albarn asking the audience to sing Coxon's lines; "Oh my baby/Oh my baby/Oh why?/Oh my". At Blur's headline appearance at Reading Festival in 2003 he introduced the song by saying "I don't want, for one moment, to be a sentimental but... Graham wrote this song as well... you know the bits he sings and I want you to sing them as loudly as you possibly can. Everyone needs to sing this song."

The video for the song is a live studio performance with the band and a group of backing singers. An offical video for this track was recorded by Sophie Muller (director of the promo videos for Beetlebum and Song 2), but it was never released as the band simply didn't like it.

A remix of the song by Cornelius was released on the "No Distance Left to Run" single.

Backing vocals are provided by London Community Gospel Choir.

Track listing

*7"
#"Tender"
#"All We Want"

*CD1
#"Tender"
#"All We Want"
#"Mellow Jam"

*CD2
#"Tender"
#"French Song"
#"Song 2"
#"Song 2" (video)

*Japan CD
#"Tender"
#"Swamp song"
#"Mellow Jam"
#"French Song"

Production Credits

*"Tender", "Mellow Jam", "French Song" and "Swamp Song" produced by William Orbit
*"All We Want" and "Song 2" produced by Stephen Street