^ Danger! High Voltage (US CD single liner notes).^ "Rea's Flaming Painting(s) In Music Video".
^ "Xbox Celebrates a Legacy of Innovation in Forza Motorsport 6 TV Ad".^ "Electric Six: Danger! High Voltage".^ Tyrangiel, Josh (June 2, 2003), "Brilliant Idiots".^ Petridis, Alexis (June 27, 2003), "Electric Six: Fire" The Guardian.^ "5 Jack White projects you may not know about"."Music From the Underground - Electric Six". ^ "IN Interview: The Electric Six | inweekly".^ a b c Plagenhoef, Scott Schreiber, Ryan, eds.Retrieved June 25, 2021.Electric Six’s Danger! High Voltage! single, an insanely catchy piece of sleazy funk rock. It's the catchiest dance-rock track to come along in years. Paintings featured in the video were created by artist Brian Rea. Set in a manor house, it shows lead singer Dick Valentine and actress Tina Kanarek as a wealthy couple, outfitted with a brightly flashing codpiece and bra respectively. The video for this song was produced by Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire. This song also appears in the CD entitled "As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt.
It was used in commercials for Subaru, the TV show Malcolm in the Middle, animated series The Simpsons and the video game Forza Motorsport 6.
The song is also featured in films Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The video features taxidermy and a glowing codpiece." In other media Writing for The Village Voice, Amy Phillips said, "The two men shout declarations of affection to each other over a sizzling Saturday Night Fever groove, and the sax sounds as if it's being played by someone with a long, luscious mullet. It was also featured in The Pitchfork 500. That good." The song is listed at number 234 on the best songs of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media. NME's Piers Martin wrote " rustle up the sort of pop-party thrash which sounds like the idiot half-brother to The Rapture’s ' House Of Jealous Lovers'. The New York Times called the song "catchier than anything on the radio by the White Stripes." The Guardian called it "insanely catchy", though "the archetypal comic novelty single." Josh Tyrangiel with Time magazine also praised the track.
The later album and single version was produced by British music producers, Damien Mendis and Stuart Bradbury-who also created club mixes under the name of Soulchild. They were forced to drop this name following legal pressure from the Bristol trip hop collective of the same name. The song was originally recorded in early 2000, when the band was under the name The Wildbunch. O'Leary and not White, although music critics suspected this name was a pseudonym for White. Members of the band have claimed in interviews that the singer was an auto mechanic named John S. Jack White of the White Stripes, a fellow Detroit native, performed the secondary lead vocals on the track.