"Lucky Star" is a song by British electronic music duo

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. It was released as a single from their third studio album, ''

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''. The song features grime artist Dizzee Rascal and Mona Singh, the daughter of Channi Singh. It was released under XL Recordings, the same label Dizzee Rascal himself was on at the time of release. It was released as a 12" single, and reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart. A music video was produced to promote the single.

Development

Reception

AllMusic's John Bush stated: "Teenage garage-rap sensation Dizzee Rascal turns in a fabulous outré performance on "Lucky Star," but the Indian filmi sample driving the song displays Basement Jaxx in a light they've never been in before: behind the times." While comparing the album's sound to "the aural equivalent of Shiva's rainbow

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," Mark Pytlik from '' Pitchfork Media'' stated: "Oh well-- at least Felix and Simon had the good sense to dress Dizzee up in pretty colors while they had him."

Music video

The video for "Lucky Star" was directed by Katie Dawson and shot at London-based Camden Studio, with a guest appearance by Rascal. Dawson was picked directly from the duo after they saw her directorial work for

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and wanted to create something similar. Dawson stated the video was "the quickest turn around job" she has ever worked on. "I was approached late in the day on a Thursday. The band wanted to see a treatment by Friday morning. They loved it and gave the go ahead to shoot the following Wednesday," she said. Later on, the casting for a belly dancer, martial arts expert, gymnast, rocket girl, breakdancer with booking crew and studio were all finished within two days. A chroma key studio background from the Camden Studio was used. After shooting the green screen shots, the duo needed the edit complete with all compositing and animations finished by the following week. "Sticking Dizzee's head on a radioactive child's dancing body was never going to be straight forward; but I've always said directing is a group effort and with something this complicated having a great team around you made it really enjoyable even though I didn't get much sleep that week," Dawson said.

Charts

References

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