Everytime
| "Everytime" | |
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| B-side | "Don't Hang Up" (European Limited Edition Single) |
"Everytime" is a song co-written by American pop singer Britney Spears and her back-up singer Annette Artani, and is included on Spears' fourth album In the Zone (2003). Produced by Guy Sigsworth, it was released as the album's third single during the second quarter of 2004 (see 2004 in music).
Covers
This song has been covered by Glen Hansard and Colm Mac Con Iomaire, members of the band "The Frames." It was recorded for the "Today FM" CD titled Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 2 (out of Ireland) which also included a cover of Britney Spears' "Toxic." All volumes are currently available on iTunes. The melody of Pachebels' "Canon in D" is played at the end of the cover. The Taiwanese trio S.H.E. covered the song in Mandarin for their album Encore (Bie Shuo Dui Bu Qi / Don't Have to Apologize).
Music video
Directed by David LaChapelle, the controversial music video for Everytime was originally supposed to depict Spears' character dying in a bathtub from slitting her wrist. When word leaked out about the video's content, protests led to it being changed.
The released video exists in two versions: the American version is slightly cleaned up, and the non-U.S. version shows more skin and blood. The video portrays Spears with her boyfriend (played by Stephen Dorff) arriving at a hotel in Las Vegas, where they are hounded by the paparazzi. One reporter hits Spears with a camera in the back of her head and gives her a concussion, something she does not initially notice. After the couple reach their hotel suite and have an argument (during which the boyfriend throws a vase), Spears disappears into the bathroom. While in the bathtub, Spears realizes that she is bleeding from the head and she loses consciousness and drowns in the bathtub.
Unconscious Spears follows her body to the hospital, not before being shown running towards the camera away from a bright light—a scene often associated with the transition into afterlife. Britney then sings directly to the camera; behind her, her body can be seen with doctors fighting to revive her, and then the camera pans round to show a baby being born, symbolising reincarnation. The video then shows Spears running away from the camera and towards the bright light seen before—implying her liberation from life and her acceptance/longing for death. The video was at number one on MTV's Total Request Live countdown for six days, and it also reached number three on both VH1's Top 20 Countdown and MuchMusic's Countdown.
The video was #2 on MuchMusic's 50 most controversial videos for the blood, skin, and Graphic scenes
In the bath scene Spears is seen wearing the red string worn by members of the Kabbalah Centre. This comes months after Spears was introduced to Kabbalah by Madonna.
Some would consider the video for "Everytime" ironic because Spear's is pictured leaving the building in a stretcher and in 2008 Spear's was taken to hospital in a stretcher from her home.
Chart performance
"Everytime" peaked at number fifteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 thanks to its top twenty placement on the Hot 100 Airplay. It also reached the top ten on the Hot Digital Tracks chart. It remained on the Hot 100 for eighteen weeks, was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 copies and ranked at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 2004.
Following the major worldwide successes of both "Me Against the Music" and "Toxic", "Everytime" followed the trend of making top ten placement in nearly every country it charted in. In Australia "Everytime" became Spears's third consecutive number-one single, and also received an ARIA gold certification for shipments of over 35,000 units, but only stayed in the charts for 4 weeks (1, 2, 18, 29). It also reached number one in the UK, where it stayed in the top forty for eleven weeks, sold 196,000 copies and ranked eighteenth on the 2004 year-end charts.
In Canada, "Everytime" became Spears' longest-charting single with forty-six weeks in the top fifty and peaked at number two a week following its debut. The CRIA awarded the track a platinum single certification for shipments of over 10,000 units. It was placed at number sixteen on 2004's year-end list of the best-selling singles.
In Latin America, the song charted inside the top ten in most countries, not achieving the same amount of success as its predecessor, "Toxic", but still, the song reached number-nine on the Latin American Top 40 Singles Chart spending four non-consecutive weeks inside the top ten and sixteen weeks overall.
In Italy, "Everytime" was released as the second single from her "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative" album due to the long chart-running of "Toxic" in the country. The single was only released as a video one: no CD single or radio airplay was available, so the song could only chart on video charts. The single has sold worldwide 4.118.000 copies.[1]
Mixes
Not all remixes are official. Formats and track listingsThese are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Everytime".
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