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| Single by David Bowie | ||||
| from the album Earthling | ||||
| Released | 27 January 1997 | |||
| Recorded | Looking Glass Studio, New York City 1996 | |||
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"Little Wonder" is a song by English musician David Bowie, released as the second single from his 21st album, Earthling (1997). "Little Wonder" backed by three remixes,[1] was issued on 27 January 1997.[2] The single was a success, peaking at number 14 in the UK and topping the chart in Japan.[3] The accompanying music video was directed by Floria Sigismondi and depicts Bowie at three different ages. Biographer David Buckley considers it a dance-oriented video rather than a rock one, reminiscent of Orbital's "The Box" (1996).[4]
"Little Wonder" was one of the first tracks Bowie and Reeves Gabrels wrote for the album.[5] Bowie called writing the track a "ridiculous" exercise in pure stream of consciousness: "I just picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and made a line for each of the dwarves' names. And that's the song [laughs]. And then I ran out of dwarves' names, so there's new dwarves in it like 'Stinky'."[6] Originally set to be a "nine-minute jungle electronic epic",[4] the song was trimmed to six minutes for the album.[3] Described by biographer Chris O'Leary as a combination of arena rock and electronica,[2] it utilises percussion and power chords from the Prodigy's "Firestarter", a 1996 UK number one that assisted in bringing drum and bass rhythms to the mainstream.[3]