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According to the singer, Dryden Mitchell, the band would play a few riffs of the song while warming up before gigs and audience members would request the entire song. [84] The cover became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and was also a number-one hit in Australia for eight weeks. In Europe, it reached number three ...
The song is sampled in the Lil' Romeo track "We Can Make It Right" from his second album Game Time. Play covered the song in 2004 for their third studio album Don't Stop the Music which was later featured on the 20th Anniversary DVD release of Annie. The song is interpolated in the chorus of Lukas Graham's 2014 single "Mama Said". [7]
The song revolves around a character, Annie, who seems to be unpopular, weird, and perhaps insane. Raine Maida has stated that this song is about a girl contemplating murdering students at her school, similar to the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre , which occurred three weeks after this song was written.
With Annie Lennox appearing with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit in the music video, the BBC stated Lennox's "powerful androgynous look" was the music video that "broke the mold for female pop stars“. [6] Rolling Stone called the song "a synth-pop masterpiece that made Lennox and Dave Stewart MTV superstars". [7]
The EGOT winner is currently back on stage in the musical, playing at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in N.Y.C. through Jan. 5, 2025
Sia covered the song for the soundtrack for the 2014 film. [2] [3] The single charted in Australia, Belgium, UK and in Poland where it became an airplay hit—the song peaked at number 3 on the Polish Airplay Top 20 Chart and at number 2 on the Polish TV Airplay Chart.
A 6-year-old girl got the surprise of a lifetime when, after she went viral singing a song by Jelly Roll, the country music superstar responded. Now, she says she hopes to meet him — and sing ...
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