"One Word" is the first single from Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...

's second album Sleeping in the Nothing

Sleeping in the Nothing

Sleeping in the Nothing is the second and final album by Kelly Osbourne. Unlike the pop punk sound of her first album, Sleeping in the Nothing features Kelly singing to '80s-inspired electro beats...

. Unlike the pop/punk sound Kelly sported in the past, "One Word" was a synthpop song that showed Kelly embracing dance music. The single sounded very reminiscent of the 1980s Visage

Visage

Visage are a British New Wave rock band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s, and are best known for their 1980 hit "Fade to Grey".-New Wave years :...

 song "Fade to Grey", which caused some controversy over copyright issues, which was finally settled out of court when Osbourne's writing team agreed to give Visage a share of the royalties.

Reception

The song received a positive reaction from music fans and even some of Osbourne's harshest critics. On the track, Billboard said "she glides through the space-age number like she's the princess of the new wave dancefloor." Similarly, Malinda Lo said the track "eases you in with a spacey, synthesized intro" and "makes use of computer assistance in the best possible way". Brian Hiatt with Rolling Stone remarked, "Turns out her affectless vocals are better suited to...Eurythmics

Eurythmics

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-biting synth-pop." While the single wasn't a hit on the US Hot 100, it was extremely successful in the US dance charts and was consistently played at nightclubs across the nation thanks in part to a remix by acclaimed DJ Chris Cox. In the UK

United Kingdom

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, the original track reached #9.

Music video

The music video to the song, directed by Chris Applebaum

Chris Applebaum

Chris Applebaum is an American music video director, who has worked with a diverse range of artists, among them Rihanna, Hilary Duff, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Mandy Moore, Natasha Bedingfield, Fountains of Wayne and Britney Spears...

, is shot in black and white and are based on several themes and scenes from the 1965 French cult sci-fi movie Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville: Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution, mostly known simply as Alphaville) by Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

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.

Track listing

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   EP
  Extended play
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1. "One Word" (Chris Cox Remix) – 7:56
2. "One Word" – 4:03
3. "One Word" (Favela Funk Remix) – 4:16
4. "One Word" (Instrumental) – 4:05
5. "Sound of the Crowd" (Human League Cover) – 3:55

• CD Single

1. "One Word" (Chris Cox Club Remix) – 7:57
2. "One Word" (Album Version) – 4:03
3. "One Word" (Favela Funk Remix) – 4:16
4. "One Word" (Album Instrumental) – 4:05
5. "Sound of the Crowd" (Human League Cover) – 3:55

• One Word Pt. 1

1. "One Word" (Radio Edit)
2. "One Word" (Chris Cox's Radio Edit)

• One Word Pt. 2

1. "One Word" (Album Version) – 4:03
2. "Sound of the Crowd" – 3:55
3. "One Word" (Chris Cox's Club Remix) – 7:57
4. "One Word" (Music Video)

Charts

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|align="left"|US Hot Dance Airplay

Hot Dance Airplay

Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it...

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|align="left"|US Pop 100

Pop 100

The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...

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|align="left"|UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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|align="left"|Spanish Singles Chart
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|align="left"|Portuguese Singles Chart

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

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|align="left"|Canadian Singles Chart

Canadian Singles Chart

The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....

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|align="left"|Irish Singles Chart

Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...

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|align="left"|Australian ARIA Singles Chart

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

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|align="left"|Swedish Singles Chart

Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....

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|align="left"|Dutch Singles Chart

MegaCharts

MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...

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