| "Automatic Flowers" | ||||
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| Single by Our Lady Peace | ||||
| from the album Clumsy | ||||
| Released | July 14, 1997 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
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| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | Columbia 1271 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Raine Maida, Arnold Lanni | |||
| Producer(s) | Arnold Lanni | |||
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| "Automatic Flowers" on YouTube | ||||
"Automatic Flowers" is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released in July 1997 as the third single from their second studio album, Clumsy .
In writing the song, Raine Maida began by thinking about a woman who lived alone in her apartment. The woman has little going on in her life, and the apartment is dingy, without much of a view. She has boxes from her childhood, and one day she takes out a pop-up book and opens it to a garden with pop-up flowers. Whenever she wants to cheer herself up, she opens the book. Maida puts only traces of the entire history in the lyrics.
For the first time, Our Lady Peace self-directed their music video for this song. The video consists of the band playing in a dimly lit room (a rehearsal space in Toronto). [2] [3] The video reached the #1 spot on the Muchmusic countdown on October 15, 1997. [1] In 1998 it was ranked #47 for Muchmusic's favourite videos of all time. [1]
| Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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| Canada Top Singles (RPM) | 29 |
| Canada Alternative Top 30 (RPM) | 8 |