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Axel F (Crazy Frog song)

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"Axel F"
Single by Crazy Frog
Not on an album
Single Released May 2005
Single Format CD Single
Recorded 1997 (vocals), 2005 (song)
Genre Dance
Song Length 2:48/2:54
Record Label Ministry of Sound
Chart Positions #1 (UK), #1 (Europe)
Crazy Frog single chronology

"Axel F"
2005

"Axel F" is a 2005 (see 2005 in music) remix of "Axel F" by the German dance duo Bass Bumpers, who released it under the pseudonym Crazy Frog. "Axel F" was originally a 1985 hit for Harold Faltermeyer, and was the theme from the film of the same year, Beverly Hills Cop. Jamster arranged the remix, and later marketed it as a ringtone.

The remix consists of vocals taken from the Crazy Frog recording by Daniel Malmedahl in 1997. The remix uses mainly the same part of the two-minute original that was used in Jamster's ringtone release. The song also uses the "What's going on?" vocal shotguns from another 2003 remix of Axel F by Murphy Brown and Captain Hollywood (dubbed "Axel F 2003" and sometimes "Axel F 2004").

Released across Europe in May 2005, "Axel F" went straight to number one in the UK, with some of the best weekly sales of the year so far (out-selling rivals by four copies to one), and remained on top of the UK charts for four weeks. In other European countries the popularity has differed, with the remix failing to make the top twenty in Switzerland at first, before gradually climbing to #1, whilst only making #23 in Lithuania. It also reached #1 in the overall European chart, after initially being number two to Akon's "Lonely" for several weeks, and in nine other countries so far; the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Music video

The Ministry of Sound hired Kaktus Film and Erik Wernquist of TurboForce3D, the original creator of the 3D Crazy Frog, to produce a full-length animated music video to accompany the release of the song. The video features the Crazy Frog character, is set in the future, and centers on his pursuit by a bounty hunter. The bounty hunter receives notification of a $50,000 reward for capturing the frog, who is only identified as "The most annoying thing in the world", a reference to Wernquist's original name for the character.

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The bounty hunter sports fierce looking body armour and mounts an armoured hover cycle in the video, then proceeds to track the Crazy Frog as it commutes around the City on his imaginary motorcycle. As the bounty hunter closes in on his prey, the Crazy Frog becomes aware of his pursuer and an unlikely chase begins over skyscrapers and through the city's sewer system, before the bounty hunter launches a guided missile at the character.

However, the character is able to mount the missile as it approaches him, evidently confusing its guidance system, as it then begins to loop and glide uncontrollably. The missile eventually locks onto the bounty hunter's van, destroying it and creating a large mushroom cloud. The frog manages to escape the blast, covered in dust from the debris and appearing to deliver the closing lyrics.

Trivia

Some music video channels, to unintentionally humourous effect, censored the Crazy Frog's genitalia in the music video. Some had also already done this on the ringtone advertisement.

Track listing

  1. Axel F (Radio Edit) [02:54]
  2. Axel F (Club Mix) [6:23]
  3. Axel F (Club Mix Instrumental) [6:23]
  4. In The 80's [03:29]

Chart positions

World/Continental

National

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