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"Everytime" is a song co-written by American pop singer Britney Spears and her back-up singer Annette Stamatelatos, and is included on Spears' fourth album In the Zone (2003). Produced by Guy Sigsworth, it was released as the album's third single during the second quarter of 2004 (see 2004 in music). The song is a piano ballad about the loss of a loved one, and its protagonist states: "everytime I try to fly I fall / without my wings I feel so small / I guess I need you, baby".

Music video

Directed by David LaChapelle, the controversial music video for the song was originally supposed to depict Spears' character dying in a bathtub from an "accidental" overdose of pills and alcohol. When word leaked out about the video's content, protests lead to it being changed.

The released video exists in two versions: the American version is slightly cleaned up, and the non-U.S. version shows more skin and blood. The video portrays Spears with her boyfriend (played by Stephen Dorff) arriving at a hotel in Las Vegas, where they are hounded by the paparazzi. One reporter pulls Spears from the back and gives her concussion, something she does not initially notice. After the couple reach their hotel suite and have an argument (during which the boyfriend throws a vase), Spears disappears into the bathroom where she drowns herself in the bathtub.

In the U.S. version Spears dreams that she is reincarnated and wakes up at the end after her boyfriend discovers her body. Spears' ghost is shown walking through a hospital where a woman is dying in one cubicle and a baby is being born in the next, symbolizing the reincarnation. In the non-U.S. version, she is reincarnated but does not wake up at the end. The video was at number one on MTV's Total Request Live countdown for six days, and it also reached number three on both VH1's Top 20 Countdown and MuchMusic's Countdown.

Chart performance

"Everytime" peaked at number fifteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 thanks to its top twenty placement on the Hot 100 Airplay, and it reached the top ten on the Hot Digital Tracks chart; however, digital download statistics did not contribute to a song's Hot 100 position until 2005. It remained on the Hot 100 for eleven weeks, was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 units and ranked at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 2004.

Following the major worldwide successes of both "Me Against the Music" and "Toxic", "Everytime" followed the trend of making top ten placement in nearly every country it charted in. In Australia "Everytime" became Spears's third consecutive number-one single, and it also received an ARIA gold certification for shipments of over 35,000 units. It also reached number one in the UK, where it stayed in the top forty for eleven weeks, sold 196,000 copies and ranked eighteenth on the 2004 year-end charts.

Track listing

• Non-U.S. version

1. "Everytime" (album version)
2. "Everytime" (Hi-bias radio remix)
3. "Everytime" (Above & Beyond radio mix)
4. "Don't Hang Up"

• U.S. version

1. "Everytime" (album version)
2. "Everytime" (Hi-bias radio remix)

• Europe (UK and Italy excluded) remixes version

1. "Everytime" (album version)
2. "Everytime" (Hi-bias radio remix)
3. "Everytime" (Above & Beyond radio mix)
4. "Everytime" (The Scumfrog Vocal mix)

Charts

External links

• Analysis of the music video

• 2003 songs
• 2004 singles
• Australian number one singles
• UK number one singles
• Irish number one singles
• Britney Spears songs
• Love songs