It's My Life (Bon Jovi song)
It's my life | |
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Bon Jovi | |
publication | May 2, 2000 |
length | 3:46 |
Genre (s) | Pop rock |
Author (s) | Jon Bon Jovi , Richie Sambora and Max Martin |
album | Crush |
It's My Life is a rock song by the American band Bon Jovi , which was released as the first single from their seventh studio album Crush . It was first released in Europe on May 2nd and in the US on May 23rd, 2000. Music, lyrics and production are by Jon Bon Jovi , Richie Sambora and Max Martin .
The single reached number 33 in the US charts, making Bon Jovi one of the few bands to land a top 40 hit in the US charts in the new century after the commercial peak with glam metal in the 1980s. In Germany the song was the official title for the European Football Championship 2000 for ZDF.
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As in Livin 'on a Prayer , a talk box was used in the song . The song also quotes the Bon Jovi classic: A verse in the second verse reads “Like Tommy and Gina, who never backed down”. Tommy and Gina are a fictional couple that the content of Livin 'on a Prayer revolved around . These two characters also appear in the song 99 In the Shade on the album New Jersey (1988), which says: "Somebody even tells me Tommy's comin 'down tonight, if Gina says it's alright".
"The idea with Tommy and Gina is a tribute to our old fans who have been loyal to us from the start."
The text also contains a tribute to Frank Sinatra and his song My Way .
"My heart is like an open Highway,
like Frankie said, I did it my way"
“I've lived a life that's full. I've traveled each and ev'ry highway;
And more, much more than this, I did it my way. "
Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi had argued over this part of the chorus. Jon Bon Jovi insisted that Frank Sinatra be kept in the text, although Richie Sambora was unclear why they needed this reverence to Frank Sinatra. However, many did not even notice that Frank Sinatra was being talked about and took Frankie for a fictional person whom every listener of the song could choose to be his own Frankie . Jon Bon Jovi sees this as the special magic of the song.
Music video
The music video of Wayne Isham told by a teenager named Tommy who sees a live broadcast of a Bon Jovi concert on the Internet, in which his girlfriend is in the audience. She uses her cell phone to tell him to come to her. He goes on his way, walks through Los Angeles and experiences some adventures. The video was inspired by the film Run Lola Run and often censored by the music stations at one point when the main actor jumps off a bridge and is almost rolled over by a truck trailer immediately after landing.
The filming of the video took place on March 19, 2000 in the Second Avenue tunnel of Los Angeles, which was closed to it. The video ends with the boy meeting his girlfriend in the tunnel at the end of the song, she asks him where he has been, and he tells her that she wouldn't believe him.
Chart placements
Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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Chart placements | ||
Germany (GfK) | 2 (32 weeks) | 32 |
Austria (Ö3) | 1 (34 weeks) | 34 |
Switzerland (IFPI) | 1 (33 weeks) | 33 |
United Kingdom (OCC) | 3 (17 weeks) | 17th |
United States (Billboard) | 33 (20 weeks) | 20th |
Awards
Prices
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ASCAP Pop Music Awards
- 2000: in the category "One of the Greatest Songs of the Year"
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VH1 My Music Awards
- 2000: in the category "Video of the Year"
Nominations
Awards for music sales
Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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Australia (ARIA) | platinum | 70,000 |
Belgium (BEA) | platinum | 50,000 |
Denmark (IFPI) | gold | 30,000 |
Germany (BVMI) | platinum | 500,000 |
France (SNEP) | gold | 250,000 |
Italy (FIMI) | platinum | 50,000 |
Japan (RIAJ) | gold | 100,000 |
Netherlands (NVPI) | gold | 40,000 |
Austria (IFPI) | platinum | 50,000 |
Sweden (IFPI) | platinum | 30,000 |
Switzerland (IFPI) | platinum | 50,000 |
United States (RIAA) | 2 × platinum | 2,000,000 |
United Kingdom (BPI) | platinum | 600,000 |
All in all |
4 × gold 10 × platinum |
3,820,000 |
Main article: Bon Jovi / Music Sales Awards
Cover versions
- 2003: Bon Jovi (It 'My Life 2003)
- 2005: Paul Anka
- 2010: Glee Cast
- 2013: Helene Fischer and Sunrise Avenue ( The Helene Fischer Show )
On the 2003 compilation album This Left Feels Right, Bon Jovi's greatest hits can be heard in new, mostly quieter and slower versions. It's My Life can be found on it as a slow piano ballad and was also released as a single, which reached number 45 in the German and number 17 in the Austrian charts. Bon Jovi also played this slower variant on MTV Unplugged 2007 together with Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler from The All-American Rejects .
literature
- Alex Gernandt: Bon Jovi: Always and Forever . Goldmann Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-442-42851-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release and charts
- ↑ Gernandt, p. 259
- ↑ MTV Unplugged by Bon Jovi, 2007
- ↑ Gernandt, p. 261
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Chart info from It's My Life in different charts
- ↑ Chart tracking of It's My Life in Austria