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"Everybody's Changing"
Song


Everybody's Changing is a song composed and performed by English piano rock band Keane, released as their third and sixth singles and featured on their debut album Hopes and Fears. It is also their first commercial release. The song was one of Keane's biggest hits and was also a British hit in 2003, and a world hit in 2004.
Two different CD singles of Everybody's Changing were released. The first release by Fierce Panda and the second one (one year later) by Island Records. These two singles have been divided in "Part 1" and "Part 2" by Keane fans.

Fierce Panda single

Everybody's Changing Part 1 is Keane's first commercial single, and their first single without their guitarist, Dominic Scott too. Simon Williams from Fierce Panda went to a Keane gig and he was impressed by their sound, so he asked them to sign a contract for the record company and release a single. It was selected by Steve Lamacq as his single of the week on Radio 1 in April 19th 2003.
The CD single was released in May 12 2003. During the first week 733 copies of the 1500 released were sold, reaching #122 as said by the BBC[1]. However, such the limited releases sold, nowadays the CD is valued in about £90.

The cover art designed by Moving Brands represents Tom's shadow filled with the photography of two boats. The typeface used in the cover is different from that used in both the Hopes And Fears and the Under the Iron Sea eras. The recording of Everybody's Changing is different from the one found on Hopes And Fears and on the Part 2 single.

"Everybody's Changing"
Song

Island single

The 2004 version of Everybody's Changing is Keane's second single from the Hopes And Fears era (after Somewhere Only We Know and their sixth released single (see wikitable on Keane for details). The single was released just a week before the album and it sold about 25,000 copies.
There were also pocket CD's with two songs and polyphonic ringtones, as well as alternative versions for France, Holland and Germany.
The enhanced CD includes the UK videoclip for Macromedia and wallpapers. This single was only released in Europe and Australia. It reached number 4 at the Billboard and sold 21,653 copies in its first week, making it the third best selling Keane single.

Composition, recording and musical structure

It was composed in 2001 by Tim Rice-Oxley, just after Dominic left the band.
The first version was recorded at home (as written on the back cover) and the second one at the Helioscentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex.
Everybody's Changing uses the same instrumentation as Somewhere Only We Know:

The style of Everybody's Changing has been described as "Piano rock", a style of rock in which the piano is the main instrument instead of the guitar. After the main piano riff, the piano is not used until the second verse. Through all the song, a synthesizer is played on the background.

Information about songs

Everybody's Changing

The song is about trying to work out where you are in the world, while some of the people around you are going off and doing different things. Tim wrote it while we were really struggling to get anywhere as a band, and we were watching all our friends move away and get on with their lives, while we were stuck in battle getting nowhere, and wondering if we were doing the right thing[2]

To The End Of The Earth

It was first composed by Tim Rice-Oxley and Dominic Scott in 2000. It was composed in guitar, and a demo version played on guitar was recorded too. This version was included in early 2001 by the band on their website so fans could hear it and it was leaked into the internet. A "full album" version of the rare single Wolf At The Door included this demo as a track. However this version is fake. After Scott's departure, Rice-Oxley composed the piano riff for the intro and outro. It was rerecorded for the CD single.

  • Length: 3:02 (demo version: 3:53)
  • Tempo: 120bpm
  • Key: Dm
  • Time signature: 4/4

Fly To Me

It has been considered several times as Keane's most beautiful song. During an interview, Margaret Rice-Oxley (Tim's mother) revealed she and Tim's father cried the first time they heard this song. Official sheet music for this song is available on the Wise Publication's book of Hopes and Fears.

  • Length: 5:32
  • Tempo: 120bpm
  • Key: G
  • Time signature: 4/4

The Way You Want It

Is a piano/voice early song that appeared only on the Fierce Panda single. It also appears on the Strangers DVD though is not credited

The Way You Want It is definitely a white-album influenced...[3].

  • Length: 3:19
  • Tempo: 120bpm
  • Key: Em
  • Time signature: 4/4

Track listings

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Fierce Panda single

CD NING133CD

  1. Everybody's Changing
  2. Bedshaped
  3. The Way You Want It

Island Single

CD CID855

  1. Everybody's Changing
  2. To The End Of The Earth
  3. Fly To Me
  4. Everybody's Changing (Video)

7" Vinyl IS855
Released May 3rd 2004

  1. Everybody's Changing
  2. Fly To Me

Alternative versions

Some European alternative versions were released after the original British edition. The cover was the same.

Netherlands, CD
Released July 23rd 2004

  1. Everybody's Changing
  2. Fly To Me

France, CD
Released March 21st 2005

  1. Everybody's Changing
  2. Somewhere Only We Know (Live) (Forum, London, May 10th 2004)

UK, 3" Pocket CD
Released July 19th 2004

  1. Everybody's Changing
  2. Fly To Me
  3. Everybody's Changing (Polytone)
  4. Fly To Me (Polytone)
  5. Everybody's Changing (Truetone)
  6. Fly To Me (Truetone)

Appereances

The song has appeared in some compilations:

Music videos

There are three videos for this song:

International version

File:ECKeanevideo.jpg
Shot from the Everybody's Changing video

Keane appear playing on a white room and actually everybody’s changing for other people. Template:Spoiler The videoclip starts with Keane playing the song in a white room. During the first verse, drummer Richard Hughes changes into an Eskimo man, converting quickly into Hughes again. When Chaplin sings the second verse "says everybody's changing and I don't know why", an Asian woman is playing the piano instead of Rice-Oxley, and a basketball player from the Lakers team drumming instead of Hughes. When the chorus begins, the woman changes into a doctor and the player into a girl wearing a brown cap and jacket. Then, the doctor changes into an English police officer and the girl into the Esquimo again. On the final of the chorus, the camera moves away and the Esquimo changed to a souldier and the police officer into a ballet dancer.
On the third verse, Hughes and Rice-Oxley appear again. On the final of it, Rice-Oxley changes again into the Asian woman. The camera moves away again, and Hughes has changed into the basketball player again and Rice-Oxley into the police officer. During the chorus, the player changes into the girl and the officer into the dancer again. Then, the girl into the souldier. Once more, the girl into the player and the dancer into Rice-Oxley. The chorus finishes changing the player into the Esquimo and Rice-Oxley into the doctor again.
For the bridge, Chaplin changes for the first time and very quickly. First into a wandering, then in a Drag queen, in an Aboriginal, a gymnast girl, the Aboriginal again, the girl again and finally the wandering before becoming Tom again.
For the last chorus, Hughes changes again into the Esquimo, Rice-Oxley into the doctor and Chaplin into the drag queen, just before Hughes and Rice-Oxley appear again. The song fades. 19 different people appear on the video, including Keane. Template:Spoilerend

United States version

Keane appear on a scene representing a sunset and screenshots of gigs in London, Mexico City and United States.

Unreleased version

Director Mark Pellington shot a documentary-style video for the song centered around people who experienced loss and upheaval due to the death of a loved one. The band shelved the piece after deciding the final version was too depressing.

References

  1. ^ "Keaneshaped - Discography - Everybody's Changing". Retrieved July 19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Keaneshaped FAQ: About songs". Retrieved May. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Keaneshaped FAQ: About songs". Retrieved May. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
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