Everytime

"Everytime" was the third single, released in 2004, from Britney Spears's fourth album In the Zone (2003). As the first song she's ever written alone, it exposes a very personal insight into her emotions. The song is a piano ballad with a haunting feel, and its lyrics—"everytime I try to fly I fall / without my wings I feel so small / I guess I need you, baby"—are generally thought to be about Spears' breakup with Justin Timberlake. The controversial music video for the song was originally supposed to depict Spears's character dying in a bathtub from an "accidental" overdose of pills and alcohol. When word leaked out about the video's content, protests quickly changed it. The released video exists in two versions, the American version being slightly cleaned up, and the international version showing more skin and blood than deemed normally acceptable by MTV's standards. The video also features Stephen Dorff as her estranged boyfriend. The video portrays the couple arriving at a hotel in Las Vegas, where they are hounded by a group of photographers and fans, one of which pulls Britney from the back and causes her to get a concussion, something that the star does not notice until later in the video. After the couple reaches their suite and have an argument, Britney disappears into the bathroom, where she realizes that the back of her head is bleeding and drowns in the bathtub that she is lying in. In the US version she dreams that she is reincarnated and wakes up at the end, after her boyfriend discovers her body and Britney's ghost is shown walking through a hospital room where a woman is shown dying in one cubicle and a baby is being born in the next, symbolizing the reincarnation. In the international version she is reincarnated but does not wake up at the end. The song peaked at number four in US radio airplay, but topped the charts in the United Kingdom. It also managed to snag the number one spot on the world sales and world airplay charts. A DVD single of the video is available outside of North America. In November 2004, the single was certified gold by Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bb/riaa/archive/0411.jsp

Chart positions

lign="left"|Chart align="left"|Position
004 Adult Top 40 25
004 Canadian Singles Chart 2
004 Hot Dance Music/Club Play 17
004 Hot Dance Singles Sales 23
004 The Billboard Hot 100 15
004 Top 40 Mainstream 4
004 Top 40 Tracks 7

 

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