Everything I'm Not
| "Everything I'm Not" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||
| Single by The Veronicas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Secret Life of.../Hook Me Up: UK Edition | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 22 November 2005 (Australia) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD, digital download | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop rock, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:23 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Sire | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Songwriter(s) | Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Jessica Origliasso, Lisa Origliasso, Rami | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Rami | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The Veronicas singles chronology | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
"Everything I'm Not" is the second single released in 2005 from The Veronicas' album The Secret Life of.... It reached #7 on the ARIA Singles Charts and has been certified Gold (over 35,000 units shipped).
The song is also featured in the trailer to the 2007 live-action Bratz film.
Kelefa Sanneh from the New York Times named it amongst some of the excellent songs on the album, calling it "[...] loud [and] melancholy[...]". Preston Jones from Slant Magazine stated that it felt "[...] like the estrogenically inclined counterparts to the boy-toy confection that is the Click Five's Greetings From Imrie House." Ryan Dombal from Entertainment Weekly reviewed the remix version of "Everything I'm Not", stating that the track might finally break them into the US mainstream.
"Everything I'm Not" was released in Australia on 22 November 2005. The song made its debut on the chart on issue date 4 December 2005 at number thirteen. After a steady climb up the charts for eight weeks, the song made its peak at number seven on 22 January 2006, where it stayed for one week before it slowly moved off the top 50. The single was certified gold with shipments of over 7,500 copies.
In New Zealand the single made its chart debut at number ten but only remained on the chart for nine weeks, its last position at number twenty-one. In Europe it peaked at number fourteen on the Belgium Ultratip charts at number three.
The Veronicas performed "Everything I'm Not" on television shows such as Dancing With the Stars,The Panel,Sunrise,Live at the Chapel and the 2006 ARIA Music Awards. They also performed live recordings of the song on Sessions@AOL and in 2009 they performed the song on UK radio station Capital FM to promote the single's release. On 10 September 2009, they performed the song live at the Oxford Art Factory on Oxford Street in Paddington, Sydney as part of the MasterCard's Priceless Music Events.
...
Wikipedia