Love Like Winter

Infobox Single | Name = Love Like Winter


Artist = AFI
from Album = Decemberunderground
Released = September 26, 2006
Format = CD
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Pop rock
New wave
Coldwave
Length = 2:45
Label = Interscope
Writer = Havok, Puget, Carson, Burgan
Producer = Jerry Finn
Last single = "Miss Murder"
(2006)
This single = "Love Like Winter"
(2006)
Next single = "The Missing Frame"
(2007)
prev_track = "The Interview"
prev_no = 5
this_track = "Love Like Winter"
track_no = 6
next_track = "Affliction"
next_no = 7

"Love Like Winter" is the sixth track on AFI's album "Decemberunderground", released in 2006. It is also the second single for the album, following "Miss Murder". The music video for the single was directed by Marc Webb, who also directed the videos for AFI's "The Days of the Phoenix", "The Leaving Song, Pt. II" and "Miss Murder". The band members refused to discuss the video until its release, as they wished to surprise their most diehard fans.cite web | title=Does Davey Drown? AFI Tease 'Winter' Video | work= MTV News Article | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1540705/20060912/index.jhtml?headlines=true] Unlike its predecessor, the video for the single reached the #1 spot on "Total Request Live".
#Love Like Winter - 2:45
#Jack the Ripper (Morrissey cover) - 2:47
#On the Arrow - 3:07
#Love Like Winter (Music video) - 2:46

Music video

The band is in a forest and one by one die off, leaving Havok as the only remaining member of the band, chasing after a mysterious woman (Christina Petrovic), who reveals herself as evil, not enticing as Havok once believed. The woman presumably kills Havok by drowning him under thin ice. Suddenly she appears behind him, kisses him and they both drown under the thin ice.

The video was inspired by Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" duology and Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow".cite web | title=www.mtv.com | work= MTV News Article | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1540705/20060912/index.jhtml?headlines=true]

In mid-September 2006, the song appeared on the band's MySpace page, along with promotional photos from the then-unreleased video.

On September 26, AFI was in the "TRL" studio at 3:30 EST on MTV to debut the video. On December 11, the video retired at the #7 position on "TRL", spending only 40 days on the countdown, making it the first video to spend the least amount of time on the "TRL" countdown.

On November 15, 2006, a "long version" of the video was released on Yahoo!. The video contains approximately one minute of additional footage inserted at the beginning of the video depicting the concluding portion of the preceding song on "Decemberunderground", "The Interview". This portion of the video shows the band members as well as the hooded woman, as well as the "water underground" mentioned in the closing lines of the song. During this new portion of the video, there are five quick flashes. The first four are frames from four short videos AFI made during their "5 Flowers" mystery that ended with people getting passes to "secret shows" in April 2006. The fifth frame is something new. It has the word ÞrírÞrírSjö over the cover of the 7" single of the single from "Sing the Sorrow", "The Leaving Song Pt. 2". ÞrírÞrírSjö is Icelandic for "three three seven". Around midnight PST on November 17 2006, the extended version of the video was removed from Yahoo! However, the long version can still be seen on YouTube. At a later, unknown date, the long version of the video was re-added to Yahoo! and can be seen listed there as [http://search.music.yahoo.com/search/?m=all&p=love+like+winter Love Like Winter (Long Version)] . Both versions can be purchased on iTunes.

This song was also produced by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation who also produced a remix which was never released.

Charts

References

External links

*YouTube|82QfoYvXLW4|"Love Like Winter"
*The Making of "Love Like Winter": [http://www.afireinside.net/media/default.aspx/mid/59 Part 1] , [http://www.afireinside.net/media/default.aspx/mid/60 Part 2] , and [http://www.afireinside.net/media/default.aspx/mid/61 Part 3]