Axel F (Crazy Frog song)

{| id="toc" style="width:20em; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; float:right;" !align="center" bgcolor="yellow" colspan="3"|"Axel F" |- |align="center" colspan="3"| |- !align="center" bgcolor="yellow" colspan="3"|Single by Crazy Frog |- !align="center" colspan="3"|Not on an album |- !align="left" valign="top"|Single Released |colspan="2" valign="top"|May 2005 |- !align="left" valign="top"|Single Format |colspan="2" valign="top"|CD Single |- !align="left" valign="top"|Recorded |colspan="2" valign="top"|1997 (vocals), 2005 (song) |- !align="left" valign="top"|Musical genre |colspan="2" valign="top"|Dance music |- !align="left" valign="top"|Song Length |colspan="2" valign="top"|2:48/2:54 |- !align="left" valign="top"|Record Label |colspan="2" valign="top"|Ministry of Sound |- !align="left" valign="top"|Chart Positions |colspan="2" valign="top"|#1 (United Kingdom), #2 (Europe) |- !bgcolor="yellow" colspan="3"|Crazy Frog single chronology |-align="center" |valign="top"|
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|} "Axel F" is a 2005 (see 2005 in music) song by the Germany electronic music duo Bass Bumpers and the Crazy Frog. The track was made by Bass Bumpers and arranged by Jamster, who sell the infamous Crazy Frog ringtone, but is released as a song by the fictional Crazy Frog character. The song is effectively a remix of the 1985 instrumental theme of Beverly Hills Cop, which was a successful chart hit for Harold Faltermeyer in the same year. The remix takes the "What's going on?" vocal shotguns from a 2003 remix of Axel F by Murphy Brown (artist) and Captain Hollywood, which was a hit across Europe. The Axel F remix consists of vocals taken from the infamously popular Crazy Frog recording, which was made by Daniel Malmedahl in 1997. The remix uses mainly the "ding ding" part of the recording. Released across Europe in May 2005, "Axel F" went straight to number one in the United Kingdom, with some of the best weekly sales of the year so far (out-selling rivals by four copies to one). In other European countries the popularity has differed, with the remix failing to make the top twenty in Switzerland (although, in the Swiss charts, songs can gradually climb up the chart). Jamster has also earned more money from the remix by selling it as an MP3 (or real) ringtone. == 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. 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 skyscraper 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 lyric. == 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 == # Axel F (Radio Edit) [02:54] # Axel F (Club Mix) [6:23] # Axel F (Club Mix Instrumental) [6:23] # In The 80's [03:29] == Chart positions == *United Kingdom: #1 *Republic of Ireland: #1 *Belgium: #1 *Europe: #2 *France: #2 *Germany: #6 *Switzerland: #4 *Austria: #18 *Lithuania: #25 == External links == * [http://www.nnm.ru/filez/crazy-frog.swf Flash movie] 2005 songs Jamster ringtones

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