Invisible (Jaded Era song)
| "Invisible" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Jaded Era | |
| from the album Invisible | |
| Released | 2003 (U.S.) |
| Genre | Alternative rock, pop |
| Label | Catch 'em |
| Writer(s) | Kira Leyden, Jeff Andrea, Marco Hilj, and Eric Ortopan |
| Producer(s) | Tim Patalan |
| "Invisible" | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||
| Single by Ashlee Simpson | |||||||||
| Released | June 6, 2006 | ||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||
| Recorded | Record Plant Recording Studio, Hollywood, California | ||||||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||||||
| Length | 3:45 | ||||||||
| Label | Geffen Records | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Ron Fair | ||||||||
| Ashlee Simpson singles chronology | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
"Invisible" is a song written by Kira Leyden and Jeff Andrea, members of the Ohio-based unsigned alternative rock/pop band Jaded Era, and recorded for the band's second album, Invisible (2003). It was covered by pop rock singer Ashlee Simpson for the re-release of her second album, I Am Me, and was released as the album's third single in 2006.
Andrea wrote the song's riff when he was seventeen years old and recorded it on a cassette tape, while Leyden said she wrote its lyrics on her hands during a lonely day at college; after completing the song together, they commented "There was always something special about it". Leyden has frequently said "everyone has felt completely invisible once in their lifetime, and sometimes it's just you against the world", and that the song's lyrics paralleled the band's status as independent and unsigned. Leyden and Andrea have also called it "the cornerstone for this band and where we come from", and it was produced by Tim Patalan.
The music video for Jaded Era's version of "Invisible" was directed by Dave Greene and members of the band, and produced on a US$300 budget. It comprises footage of the band performing the song intercut with black-and-white clips of a homeless man, a bullied school student, a hitch-hiker and a drug addict.
"Invisible" was covered by Ashlee Simpson, released as a single in the summer of 2006; to date, it is the first single by Simpson that she did not co-write. Although it was said that the song would be included on a re-released version of Simpson's 2005 platinum album I Am Me, this did not occur. It appears as a bonus track on some editions of her third album, Bittersweet World.
In an interview Simpson stated that the song was mainly about having emotional strength and how she has learned from previous experiences (the Saturday Night Live and Orange Bowl incidents) to pick her pieces up from the floor and keep her head held up; according to her, "Invisible" reflects those moments, where she has had to pick herself up completely in order to succeed. "It's basically about life, about finding the courage to get back up and keep fighting, which I think everybody deals with every day", Simpson has said of the song. In a video of part of the process of recording the song, in which she is seen working with Ron Fair, Fair described how he approached Simpson with the song, which he thought would be a "perfect fit" for her; he had, Simpson said, had the song for about two years and chose her to record it. Fair said that although Simpson is a songwriter herself, even many great artists have performed songs written by others.
...
Wikipedia