Everything You Want | |
Cover: | Everything You Want single.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Vertical Horizon |
Album: | Everything You Want |
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Prev Title: | We Are |
Prev Year: | 1999 |
Next Title: | You're a God |
Next Year: | 2000 |
"Everything You Want" is a song by American alternative rock band Vertical Horizon, the title track and second single from their third studio album.[4] First released to alternative radio in October 1999, the single reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 on July 15, 2000, following a commercial release on June 27, 2000. It also peaked atop the Billboard Adult Top 40 and was Billboards "Most Played Single" of 2000.[4] It remains the band's most successful single.
In 2009, lead vocalist Matt Scannell said he "still experience[d] joy" singing "Everything You Want" because he knew "it came from a true place".[5] The song deals with unrequited love, and Scannell explained its background in a 2010 interview:
I was in love with this girl, and she was just a broken person. She kept turning to everyone except me for love and acceptance, and I wanted so much to help her. I wanted to be the one to give her everything she wanted, but I couldn't. She just couldn't accept it from me, and it was that pain, that led me to creating the song.[6]
A music video for the single was directed by Clark Eddy in Los Angeles.[7] Throughout the video, a split screen effect depicts two versions of Scannell acting differently in mirror environments. Lyrics flash across the screen as the band performs the song in a bright, illuminated room with black, vertical pinstripes. Couples are shown arguing, with various messages appearing across the screen such as "every six seconds you think about sex" and "there are two sides to every story." Finally, the view blurs with a message reading "everything you want is not everything you need" as the video comes to a close.
In January 2000, the video was chosen as "Inside Track" of the month by VH1.[8]
US CD single[9]
US 7-inch single[10]
A. "Everything You Want" (radio mix) – 4:06
B. "You're a God" (radio mix) – 3:48European and Australian CD single
Chart (2000–2001) | Peak position |
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Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[11] | 33 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade)[12] | 14 |
Chart (2000) | Position | |
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US Billboard Hot 100[13] | 5 | |
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[14] | 2 | |
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[15] | 1 | |
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)[16] | 17 | |
US Triple-A (Billboard)[17] | 3 |
Region | Date | Formats(s) | Label(s) | |
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United States | October 19, 1999 | Alternative radio | RCA | [20] |
November 1, 1999 | [21] [22] | |||
Contemporary hit radio | [23] | |||
June 27, 2000 | [24] | |||
Europe | July 2000 | CD | [25] | |
United Kingdom | August 14, 2000 | [26] |