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| Label = [[Arista Records|Arista]] |
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Revision as of 07:12, 4 March 2010
"My Happy Ending" | |
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B-side | "Take It" |
"My Happy Ending" is a song written and produced by Avril Lavigne and Butch Walker, engineered by Russ T. Cobb for Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin (2004). It was released as the album's second internationally released single in 2004 (see 2004 in music) and became Lavigne's third most successful single. It peaked higher than "Don't Tell Me", the album's first single. In the United Kingdom, it reached the top five, in the United States, it peaked at number nine, doing better in Mexico where it peaked at number 1. The RIAA certified "My Happy Ending" platinum in January 2005, making it Lavigne's second platinum single after "Complicated" (2002).
Structurally, the song is written in 4/4 style and has a repeated hook in both the chorus and in the intro and outro. The song's bridge is hailed as the strongest bridge in Lavigne's songs both vocally and lyrically.
Music video
The music video for "My Happy Ending" was written and directed by MTV and Grammy winner Meiert Avis. The video was shot on location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Harlem, New York City. The video begins with Lavigne running down a street and cuts to a medias res as Lavigne enters into a cinema, where she finds the film playing is a montage of her memories concerning a specific relationship she had. At first, the memories (shown in full color) are happy, depicting Lavigne at the park with her boyfriend, as he hands her a flower and they laugh together. They are also shown goofing off inside a laundromat. However, as Lavigne sings "so much for my happy ending", the memories start to lose color. Lavigne and her boyfriend lie in bed together, as she looks at him and he (obviously reeling from a disagreement) stares blankly away. The relationship culminates during the song's bridge inside a grocery store, where the boyfriend antagonizes Lavigne, insisting that he talk to her. He grabs her and tries to pull her into his embrace. Fed up, Lavigne turns and pushes him into a wall of cans. She proceeds to run out of the grocery store and down the street (from the beginning of the video), and to a guitar shop where she grabs a guitar and walks to the roof of the building. There, she walks right past the unapologetic boyfriend without looking at him. The theater film tears and the memories end, leaving the final seconds of the video as a close-up on Lavigne in the theater as she tries to decide if the break-up is happy after all.
Lavigne said of the video "It's about a relationship that doesn't work out, and having to say goodbye to all of the memories and... all that stuff." When asked if the video for "My Happy Ending" actually contains a happy ending, Lavigne said: "I don't know if the video has a happy ending. It kind of depends on how you look at it? In one way, it's because me and "the guy" in the video aren't together anymore, and I think that's a better thing."
The music video is also currently one of the most watched videos of all time on YouTube with more than 30,000,000 views.
In visual media
"My Happy Ending" was used for the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing.
The song was used in a season five episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Mea culpa" (November 25, 2004), in a season four episode of Smallville, "Facade" (October 6, 2004) and in a season five episode of Gilmore Girls, with Dean's little sister listening to it.[5]
The song has also been a hit in video games, and has been featured in three major karaoke series, Lips (video game), SingStar, and Karaoke Revolution.
Lavigne sung the song during the closing ceremony at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Track listing
Japan CD
(BVCP-29613; Released July 7, 2004)
- "My Happy Ending" (radio version)
- "My Happy Ending" (album version)
- "Don't Tell Me" (live acoustic version)
- UK CD single 1 / French single
- "My Happy Ending" (album version)
- "Take It" (previously unreleased)
- UK CD single 2
- "My Happy Ending"
- "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
- "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
- "My Happy Ending" (music video)
- Germany, Italy and Taiwan CD single
- "My Happy Ending" (album version)
- "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
- "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
- "Take It" (previously unreleased)
- "My Happy Ending" (music video)
- Australia CD single
- "My Happy Ending" (clean version)
- "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
- "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
- "Take It" (previously unreleased)
- US CD promo
- "My Happy Ending" (radio version) - 4:02
- "My Happy Ending" (album version) - 4:02
- "My Happy Ending" (Callout Hook) - 0:10
- UK CD promo
- "My Happy Ending" (album version) [explicit]
- "My Happy Ending" (radio edit)[clean]
Charts
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Release history
Region | Date |
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Japan | July 7, 2004 |
Germany | July 19, 2004 |
United Kingdom | August 2, 2004 |
Canada | August 3, 2004 |
United States | September 14, 2004 |
France | November 2, 2004 |
References
- ^ http://www.supload.com/listen?s=LO4FSF4453DH
- ^ a b http://www.last.fm/music/Avril+Lavigne/_/My+Happy+Ending
- ^ a b http://www.mp3.com/albums/629930/summary.html
- ^ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2004 Singles
- ^ http://www.tunefind.com/artist/Avril+Lavigne Tunefind.com
- ^ 'My Happy Ending' Charts. MusicSquare.com 2006-10-02
- ^ 'My Happy Ending' in the U.S. and Canadian Charts. AllMusic.com 2006-10-02
- ^ 'My Happy Ending' in Top40-Charts.com. Top40-Charts.com 2006-10-02
- ^ My Happy Ending Austrian Single Charts
- ^ Airplay Top 100