32 Flavors
| "32 Flavors" | |
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| Song by Ani DiFranco | |
| from the album Not a Pretty Girl | |
| Released | 1995 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 6:07 |
| Songwriter(s) | Ani DiFranco |
| Producer(s) | Ani DiFranco |
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| Single by Alana Davis | ||||||||
| from the album Blame It on Me | ||||||||
| B-side | "Lullaby" | |||||||
| Released | January 31, 1998 | |||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||
| Length | 3:45 | |||||||
| Label | Elektra | |||||||
| Songwriter(s) | Ani DiFranco | |||||||
| Producer(s) | Alana Davis | |||||||
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"32 Flavors" is a song written and performed by Ani DiFranco. The song was later covered by Alana Davis as her 1998 debut single. The title of the song is a pun on Canton, Massachusetts-based ice cream store Baskin-Robbins and its well-known "31 flavors" slogan.
This song appears on her sixth studio album Not a Pretty Girl, released in 1995. A variation of the song, performed by Ani DiFranco, is featured on the movie soundtrack of the 1999 Canadian romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate.
The song was used in an ad campaign by the National Football League in 1999. The ad featured a number of players who have worn the number "32" on their jerseys.
A cover version of "32 Flavors" was released as the first single by Manhattan-based singer Alana Davis. The song appears on her debut album Blame It on Me. The CD single also included Davis' song "Lullaby". It received a 3 out of 5 star rating on Allmusic. "32 Flavors" rose as high as #37 on the Hot 100 chart in Billboard magazine, Davis' sole Hot 100 charting.
Davis' record label A&R representative Josh Deutsch suggested she record "32 Flavors" to serve as the first single released from her new album. Davis was pleased with the finished result but was uncomfortable with covering the song as she felt she could not connect with all of the personal emotions that DiFranco wrote into the song. Davis told MTV News, "Ani DiFranco is very much her own song writer, you know and I think of her songs as being very specific to her ideals and stuff. At first I wasn't sure about taking her ideas and trying to make them my own and reinterpreting them. But I started to play around with it I don't know, I took out the parts that I wasn't comfortable with, you know, and I put in ideas of my own and sent her a copy of it and she said she loved it, so..."
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