Unwritten (song)
November 29, 2004 (see publication)
Unwritten is a song by English singer Natasha Bedingfield. Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois and Wayne Rodriguez wrote the song for her debut album Unwritten. The song was released in November 2004 as the third single from the album in the United Kingdom and in 2006 as the second single from the album in the United States. The song peaked in the official American charts Billboard Hot 100 number 5, so the song was her first top ten hit in the U.S..
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Unwritten was the most played song on American radio in 2006. In March 2006 the song was honored in the United States with a platinum record. By June 2011, the song sold in the United States 2.731 million and was thus once again awarded a platinum record.
Unwritten is Bedingfield's most successful single in the U.S., along with Pocketful of Sunshine; both songs reached the Billboard Hot 100, the official U.S. charts, number 5
The song brought Bedingfield a Grammy nomination in the category Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards 2006, but lost Christina Aguilera's hit single Is not No Other Man.
Music Video
To promote the song for two different music videos were filmed. The first music video was shot in 2004 in the UK. The second music video was filmed in 2006 in New York City.
The first music video International version, where Michael Gracey has directed, Bedingfield is on the cover of an animated book in a large library. In the music video Bedingfield also climbs up the bookshelf. The higher Bedingfield climbs, the more the shelf like a rock, at the highest point of the shelf it even snows. At one point flies around a dove. In autumn, the pages of some books are ripped out by persons who look in the sky with the leaves. The music video can be with the lyrics as an oblique spiritual story of striving to climb ( and to achieve a heavenly dove ) indicate. While the lyrics are also Bedingfield's concerns with the process of song writing, illustrating, but this is even more strongly addressed in the song These Words, another song from the album Unwritten.
The second music video North American and Spanish version where Chris Applebaum directed by, Bedingfield shows in an elevator. When the elevator stops and the doors open, Bedingfield experienced in each floor of the building of new experiences for their lives. Among other things, she sings in a church choir, she sees a couple who kisses crazy, it looks like the janitor of the building, his money and his watch and throws away Bedingfield will also inform their pleasure with a man who comes into the elevator. The man is then to Bedingfield's love partner. According to a Total Request Live interview, Bedingfield wanted for the music video is also a scene where she gets wet, it was a hot and sunny day in Rio de Janeiro during the filming of the American version of the music video These Words. This scene occurs in the music video when Bedingfield for the second time the line " Feel the rain on your skin" sings. Jump and some children and dance, as they are sprayed with the water.
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Charts
After the song has placed in the American charts for two weeks at number 5, Unwritten reached into the American charts of the year 2006 ranked 6th Unwritten stayed a total of 38 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100, represented 13 weeks of them in the top ten. By June 2011, the song sold in the United States 2.731 million and was thus twice awarded a platinum record. This was the third most successful song of a female artist in 2006 in the United States, behind Hips Do not Lie by Shakira and Wyclef Jean and Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado and Timbaland. The song spent 13 weeks in the American Top Ten. Unwritten was in the United Kingdom are not as successful as her subsequent number -one hit These Words, but still celebrated success on the charts and reached # 6 It is one of the few songs by Bedingfield, which in North America than in Europe successfully placed. In Germany the song reached number 22