There Is No Arizona
| "There Is No Arizona" | ||||
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| Single by Jamie O'Neal | ||||
| from the album Shiver | ||||
| B-side | "Frantic"[1] | |||
| Released | August 7, 2000 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:57 | |||
| Label | Mercury Nashville | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jamie O'Neal Lisa Drew Shaye Smith | |||
| Producer(s) | Keith Stegall | |||
| Jamie O'Neal singles chronology | ||||
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"There Is No Arizona" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Jamie O'Neal. It was released in August 2000 as the first single from O'Neal's debut album, Shiver. The song reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. It was written by O'Neal, Lisa Drew and Shaye Smith.
Content
The narrator talks about how a man sets off to Arizona, and promises to send for the woman (the narrator) when he has things set up. Time goes by and she gets one postcard with no return address, then nothing more. She tries to hold out hope that he'll come back or send for her but finally, as her friends keep asking her when she's going, she realizes that the dream of having a better life with him in Arizona is never going to come true. She realizes that the wonderful, love-filled paradise she had hoped for was just a lie, or, to be generous, a pipe dream, the man told her when he left her. Her vision of Arizona does not exist.
Music video
The music video was directed by Lawrence Carroll and premiered in mid-2000. It starts with O'Neal sitting on a bench in a desert with a postcard in her hand singing. She eventually tears up the postcard and the pieces blow away in the wind. Once the second chorus hits, a tarp behind her is revealed, and behind her is a skyscraper of New York City. She then is seen walking through NYC (including sitting on another bench, standing in the heart of Times Square, in front of the Flatiron Building, and walking through Central Park), all while others are passing her by. As the song ends, she (in Times Square again) simply turns and walk away.
Chart performance
"There Is No Arizona" debuted at number 69 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of August 12, 2000.
| Chart (2000–2001) | Peak position[1] |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 1 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[3] | 40 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2001) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 29 |
References
- ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 305. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
- ^ "Jamie O'Neal Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ "Jamie O'Neal Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "Best of 2001: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2012.