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Automatic Flowers

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"Automatic Flowers"
Single by Our Lady Peace
from the album Clumsy
ReleasedJuly 14, 1997[1]
Recorded1996
Genre
Length4:05
LabelColumbia 1271
Songwriter(s)Raine Maida, Arnold Lanni
Producer(s)Arnold Lanni
Our Lady Peace singles chronology
"Clumsy"
(1997)
"Automatic Flowers"
(1997)
"Carnival"
(1997)
Music video
"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.

Background and writing

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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.

Music video

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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 performance

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Chart (1997) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM) 29
Canada Alternative Top 30 (RPM) 8

References

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  1. ^ a b c OLP Bandology Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at OurLadyPeace.cc
  2. ^ "Our Lady Peace directs its next video"[usurped] July 26, 1997, article at Jam! Canoe. Retrieved August 1, 2009
  3. ^ Anon (1997). "News Archive" Ourladypeace.com at the Internet Archive. Retrieved September 18, 2009
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