"Tender" is a song by the band Blur. It is the first track on their sixth album 13 and was also released as a single. The single reached #2 in the UK singles chart - kept off #1 by Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time".
The song was written by both Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon and the vocals are shared on the track. Despite Coxon's departure from the group, Blur still perform this song live with Albarn asking the audience to sing Coxon's lines; "Oh my baby/Oh my baby/Oh why?/Oh my". At Blur's headline appearance at Reading Festival in 2003 he introduced the song by saying "I don't want, for one moment, to be a sentimental but... Graham wrote this song as well... you know the bits he sings and I want you to sing them as loudly as you possibly can. Everyone needs to sing this song."
The video for the song is a live studio performance with the band and a group of backing singers.
A remix of the song by Cornelius was released on the "No Distance Left to Run" single.
The intro line of the song, "Tender is the night" may be an allusion to "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. As in one section of the poem the afore mentioned line appears.
"Shatter / Tender" are two songs by the British rock band Feeder. They were released by the band as a double a-sided single in October 2005, reaching #11 in the UK Singles Chart. Shatter did not appear on a regular studio album; but has since been included on the band's compilation album The Singles. The song is still performed live by the band at their shows, usually after "Feeling a Moment". The single is backed up with "Tender" from the studio album Pushing the Senses, and appears alongside "Shatter" in the end credits of the English dub of the Russian film Night Watch (Ночной дозор, Nochnoy Dozor).
The track was released as a single after a petition of over 1,000 names was submitted to the bands label, and was a b-side on "Tumble and Fall" after appearing on the video game Gran Turismo 4. The names of the petition, appear on a scrolling list in movie credits style on the DVD format of the single, while "Tender" plays.
