Have a Nice Day (Stereophonics song)
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| Single by Stereophonics | ||||||||||||||
| from the album Just Enough Education to Perform | ||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Surprise" | |||||||||||||
| Released | 11 June 2001 | |||||||||||||
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| Recorded | 2001 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Post-Britpop, Alternative rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 3:25 | |||||||||||||
| Label | V2 Records | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Kelly Jones | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Bird & Bush | |||||||||||||
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"Have a Nice Day" is the second single from rock band the Stereophonics taken from their third album Just Enough Education to Perform. Produced by Steve Bush and Marshall Bird, it was released on 11 June 2001. The song received negative reviews but the single reached number five in the UK charts and went on to be a bigger success than its predecessor and subsequently one of their biggest hits.
The lyrics for "Have a Nice Day" are based on a cab fare Stereophonics took in San Francisco Bay when they were touring in the United States. When the band got in the back of the cab the driver said to them, "I hate this place, it's full of tourists and processed fish". He explained to the trio that he was a poet who believes everyone in the world are alike; the only difference is the accents. At the end of the journey the driver ended the conversation with: "That'll be seven bucks, have a nice day". After the cab journey lead singer and guitarist Kelly Jones took the conversation and placed it into the lyrics.
Jones later put the words and music together on October 1999 in a hotel in Europe. The song was first released on Just Enough Education to Perform on 17 April 2001. It was later released as the album's second single on 11 June 2001. The song was also included in the band's first greatest hits compilation album, Decade in the Sun: Best of Stereophonics.
The first video for "Have a Nice Day" was directed by Jake & Jim, it features the band along with their touring musician Tony Kirkham on keyboard and twenty-one models. Throughout the video Kelly Jones is tied to a blue and white target with balloons round his wrists and ankles.
The treatment was written by Kelly Jones, who was trying to do a mix between Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland album cover and the Clint Eastwood film Bronco Billy though when he went to the set and saw the half-naked models with glitter he ended up feeling like Les Dawson.
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