Amazing (Alex Lloyd song)
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| Single by Alex Lloyd | ||||
| from the album Watching Angels Mend | ||||
| Released | 17 September 2001 | |||
| Format | CD, digital download | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 3:22 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alex Lloyd | |||
| Producer(s) | Magnus Fiennes, Alex Lloyd | |||
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"Amazing" is a song written by Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd. The song was released in September 2001 as the second single from his second studio album, Watching Angels Mend. It was a successful single, which reached the top of the New Zealand chart, and topped the poll in youth radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2001. The song is an example of the evergreen 'four chords of pop' progression.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002, the song was nominated for Single of the Year and Highest Selling Single, losing out on both to "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue.
At the APRA Music Awards of 2002 the song won the 'Song of the Year' award.
The video clip of this song was filmed around the Southern Highlands in New South Wales. It features a schoolgirl named Sarah living in the year 1976. One day while travelling to school by bus, Sarah notices a young man walking near the road. Desperately, she decides to skip school and have her own freedom including writing her name in a local toilet, rowing a boat, drawing a picture and walking around the streets in her local town. Unfortunately, Sarah's chance of freedom was cut short when her mum caught her in a library. At the end, Sarah is back in uniform the next day and waits for a bus to get to school.
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In 2004 the song was licensed for use in advertisements for the Ford Territory 4-wheel drive (SUV) vehicle. It has been used in two other TV advertisements, reportedly earning Lloyd payments of "hundreds of thousands of dollars". In 2008, truck driver Mark O'Keefe sued Lloyd, claiming that the two of them wrote the song together on "a series of beer coasters" at a hotel in 1991 when Lloyd was 16, and that accordingly Lloyd owed him royalties. Lloyd denied ever meeting O'Keefe.
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