U Don't Know Me (Basement Jaxx song)

"U Don't Know Me"
Single by Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula
from the album The Singles
Released	June 13, 2005
Genre	Dance
Length	5:23
Label	XL Recordings
Writer(s)	Simon Ratcliffe Felix Buxton Kekaula
Producer(s)	Ratcliffe Buxton
Basement Jaxx singles chronology
"Oh My Gosh" (2005) "U Don't Know Me" (2005) "Do Your Thing" (2005)
Lisa Kekaula singles chronology "Good Luck" (2005) "U Don't Know Me" (2005)

"U Don't Know Me" is a song by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. It was released in 2005 by record label XL as the second single from their greatest hits album The Singles. It reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart.^[1]

Critical reception

Writing for Seattle Weekly, Michaelangelo Matos said the song sounds like an outtake from the duo's last album, Kish Kash.^[2] Charlotte Lyon from musicOMH called the song album's "weakest" track. "The heavy electronic pressing gives it a strong likeability, but unlike the rest of the tracks, you’ve heard it somewhere before," she stated.^[3]

Music video

The video for the song was directed by Mat Kirkby, who previously directed the duo's "Good Luck" video, which features a lookalike Queen Elizabeth II drinking, fighting and fleeing police during a night out in Soho, London.^[4] In an interview with Canadian music magazine The Record, Buxton stated:

Because the song is called "U Don't Know Me," [Kirkby] thought it would be quite interesting for it to be about the Queen and to have her on a night off, sort of just going out, just leaving her bodyguards behind…so [it's about] do we really know the Queen, the people in the media, do we really know them?^[5]

There was a scene where the Queen groping the lapdancer which was banned by MTV.

"MTV wasn't allowed to play it in the daytime in the UK at the beginning but yeah, people seem to enjoy it. It's not malicious, it's more a bit of fun."

References

1. "Basement Jaxx | Official Charts Company". Official Charts. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
2. Matos, Michaelangelo (October 9, 2006). "Schoolyard Heroes". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
3. Lyon, Charlotte (March 21, 2005). "The Singles - Basement Jaxx review". musicOMH. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
4. "MTV refuse 'groping Queen' video". BBC News. May 16, 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
5. "Basement Jaxx — Red Alert". The Record. Retrieved June 13, 2016.