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Annie (song)

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"Annie"
Single by Our Lady Peace
from the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
Released30 September 1999
Recorded1999
GenreAlternative rock, post-grunge
Length4:03
LabelSony BMG Music Entertainment
Songwriter(s)Raine Maida and Jeremy Taggart,
Producer(s)Arnold Lanni
Our Lady Peace singles chronology
"Is Anybody Home?"
(1999)
"Annie"
(1999)
"Thief"
(1999)

"Annie" is a 1999 single by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace from the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. It was less successful than other singles from that album, such as Thief.

Plot

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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.

Writing

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"I don't talk about my lyrics much (to the band)," Maida says, "But the day I heard the news, I said: 'Guys, the song Annie is written exactly about this.' I felt the need to tell them because I didn't want them to think that morning I had been reading the paper, writing lyrics."

Origin

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While many of the songs on Happiness... were developed from ideas brought into the studio that remained unchanged throughout recording, "Annie" developed mainly from jam sessions over a long period of time. "It [Annie] took a long time," said Maida, "We had the verse for the longest time and it took weeks in the rehearsal hall just playing it as a band and finally the chorus happened. And it's all out, now it's a song. Jeremy started the beat to 'Annie' with Duncan doing the bass groove and you know what? right away you know this is something to work on."[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Anon. "Our Lady Peace" - Canadian Musician Dec. - Nov. 1999. Retrieved November 30, 2009