Music Everywhere

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"Music Everywhere"
Anna Abreu Music Everywhere.jpg
Single by Anna Abreu
from the album Just a Pretty Face?
Released10 August 2009
FormatCD single, digital download
Recorded2009
Genre Pop, Electro, Eurodance
Length3:16
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Patric Sarin, Rauli Eskolin, Eva Peijakas
Producer(s) Rauli Eskolin
Anna Abreu singles chronology
"Come Undone"
(2009)		"Music Everywhere"
(2009)		"Impatient"
(2009)
Music video
"Music Everywhere" on YouTube

"Music Everywhere" is a song by Finnish singer Anna Abreu from her third studio album, Just a Pretty Face? (2009). Rauli Eskolin (known professionally as Rake) co-wrote the song with Patric Sarin and Eva Peijakas. Eskolin, who has previously worked on Abreu's first two albums Anna Abreu and Now , also produced the song. "Music Everywhere" is a Pop song which continued Abreu's move into dance-inspired music, with its Electro and Eurodance elements. The song was released on 10 August 2009 in Finland, as the album's lead single.

Anna Abreu Finnish-Portuguese singer

Anna Abreu is a Finnish singer of Portuguese descent who rose to fame as the runner-up of the third series of the Finnish singing talent show Idols in 2007. Her music is primarily pop, though her songs also have R&B, dance and Latin rhythms to them. Since her participation in Idols, Abreu has become one of the best-selling Finnish Idols contestants and one of the most successful Finnish female singers, with certified record sales surpassing 190,000 copies, which places her also among the 100 best-selling music artists of all time in Finland.

<i>Just a Pretty Face?</i> 2009 studio album by Anna Abreu

Just a Pretty Face? is the third studio album by Finnish singer Anna Abreu, released in Finland by RCA on October 21, 2009. The album was preceded by the lead single "Music Everywhere" and followed by the promotional singles "Impatient" and "Slam".

<i>Anna Abreu</i> (album) 2007 studio album by Anna Abreu

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Contents

Lyrical content

"Music Everywhere" in an up-tempo dance-pop song that celebrate Abreu's love for music and the joy and excitement that it brings her and others. Abreu sings that she finds 'salvation' in music (including her own) being 'on heavy rotation', and that when 'music is everywhere' then life is much more exciting and positive. The final verse of the song also reflects upon Abreu's strong beliefs in her own musical direction and that she will not change simply to please the 'suits', stating that she 'won't budge', finally ending with the statement 'I am who I am and that's more than enough'.

Chart performance

"Music Everywhere" initially debuted at number four on the Finnish Top 20 Singles Chart, before moving up to number two in its sixth week weeks later, becoming Abreu's fourth top ten hit and her third top five hit. It remained on the chart for twenty-three weeks. To date, it is Abreu's longest-running single on the chart. [1] "Music Everywhere" also reached number six on the Finnish Download Chart and number four on the Airplay Chart.

Chart (2009) [2] Peak
position
Finland (Top 20 Singles)2
Finland (Digital)6
Finland (Radio)4

Music video

The music video for "Music Everywhere" was directed by Mikko Harma, and was shot mainly at Helsinki airport. The video begins with Abreu, wearing a dressing gown and slippers, exiting a camper van and entering the airport hangar, where stylists begin to make her over. This is filmed in greyscale, which changes to full colour when the song's chorus begins. Abreu is then seen singing and dancing in an empty airport hangar. This is interspersed with shots of her riding a motorcycle and dancing in both a limousine and on the airport runway. Abreu then appears wearing the blue and gold dress from the cover art of Just a Pretty Face?, dancing and swining in a circular trapeze, which can also been as part of the photography inside the album sleeve.

Live performances

Abreu performed the song on television at the 2009 Finnish version of Children In Need, wearing the blue and gold dress seen in the music video and the Just a Pretty Face? album cover. [3] It has since become Abreau's fourth most performed song when on tour. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Music Everywhere" – 3:16

Credits and personnel

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Finland10 August 2009CD single, Digital download RCA

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References

  1. ↑ Steffen Hung. "finnishcharts.com - Anna Abreu - Music Everywhere". finnishcharts.com. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
  2. ↑ "Musiikkituottajat - Tilastot - Suomen virallinen lista - Artistit". ifpi.fi. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
  3. ↑ "anna abreu music everywhere live elama lapselle 2009 www.0daymusic.org - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
  4. ↑ "Anna Abreu Tour Statistics | setlist.fm". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
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