Daniel Powter Songs - Bad Day, Free Loop, Love You Lately, Next Plane Home, Jimmy Gets High (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Bad Day, Free Loop, Love You Lately, Next Plane Home, Jimmy Gets High. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Bad Day" is a pop song written by Canadian singer Daniel Powter. It was released as the first single from his second album Daniel Powter (2005) and achieved the #1 spot in the U.S. and Ireland. In the U.S. it became the most successful single of 2006 as ranked by Billboard Magazine. Despite the song's success, Powter failed to release any more pop hits, making him a one-hit wonder. The boy and girl in split screen from the music video.The music video is directed by Marc Webb and features two single people, a male (Jason Adelman) and a female (Samaire Armstrong), waking and going about their daily schedule. The video shows this happening over a three-day period, but makes no distinction between the days apart from the different clothing worn for each day. The main event is the two adding graffiti to the same wall, separately, on each day, culminating in the completion of a heart. At the end of the video, life mirrors the image created on the wall, with the boy offering the soaking wet girl a red umbrella in the pouring rain, as a cab stops for them. Parts of it were shot in a split-screen. Throughout the video, Powter is shown with his tuque, playing his piano. The Metro Red Line subway in Los Angeles was used during the shooting of this video and prominently featured throughout. The area where the two meet and add the graffiti on the wall is on the mezzanine level of Pershing Square Station in downtown Los Angeles. Billboard called the song "one of the great discoveries of the year" and the top One Hit Wonder of the 2000s. "Bad Day" reached number seven on the Canadian Singles Chart; it was als...http: //booksllc.net/?id=4421511