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"Everytime" is the third single from Pop singer Britney Spears released from the album In the Zone during the second quarter of 2004.

"Everytime" was written primarily by Britney, though she did have assistance from her backup singer, Annette Stamatelatos. The song was produced by Guy Sigsworth. Dealing primarily with the loss of a loved one, the track exposes a very personal insight into her emotions. The song is a piano ballad with a haunting feel, and its lyrics—"everytime I try to fly I fall / without my wings I feel so small / I guess I need you, baby"—are generally thought to be about Spears' breakup with singer Justin Timberlake. One theory is that the lyric, "I may have made it rain", is a sorrowful reference to Timberlake's "Cry Me a River". Due to the fact that the song and music video caused such controversy it is perceived as a signature song.

Tracklist

International Version

1. Album Version
2. Hi-bias Radio Remix
3. Above & Beyond Radio Mix
4. Don't Hang Up

US Version

1. Album Version
2. Hi-bias Radio Remix

Europe (UK and Italy excluded) Remixes Version

1. Album Version
2. Hi-bias Radio Remix
3. Above & Beyond Radio Mix
4. The Scumfrog Vocal Mix

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 quickly changed it. The released video exists in two versions; the American version being slightly cleaned up, and the international version showing more skin and blood than deemed normally acceptable by MTV's standards. The video also features Stephen Dorff as her estranged boyfriend (who some critics and fans believe is thought to represent Justin Timberlake). The video portrays the couple arriving at a hotel in Las Vegas, where they are hounded by the paparazzi, one of which pulls Spears from the back and causes her to get a concussion, something that the star does not notice until later in the video. After the couple reaches their suite and have an argument that involves Stephen throwing a vase and wrecking the room. Spears disappears into the bathroom where she drowns herself in the bathtub.

In the U.S. version, she 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 international version, she is reincarnated but does not wake up at the end.

Chart performance

"Everytime" peaked within the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, thanks to its top twenty placement on the Hot 100 Airplay. With a relatively high peak of number seven on the Hot Digital Tracks, the song likely would've become a top ten hit on the Hot 100 had its downloads accounted for chart positions at the time of the single's release; however, this method of chart calculation did not begin until early 2005. The song was later ranked at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End chart for 2004.

At Top 40 radio, "Everytime" fared well, peaking within the top ten of both the Top 40 Tracks and Mainstream Top 40.

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 Britney's third consecutive No. 1 single.

"Everytime" was a huge hit in the U.K. selling 54,000 copies in it's first week of release debuting at number-one, the single just missed out on a silver certifiation selling 196,000 copies ranking at 18 on the 2004 year end charts.

Certifications

• ARIA (AUS): Gold (35,000+ units)
• RIAA (USA): Gold (500,000+ units)

Chart Trajectories

External links

• Page proving Britney doesn't commit suicide in the video

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