2 on the Billboard album chart and became Branch’s second platinum-selling disc in the U.S. She followed it up with 2003’s Hotel Paper, which debuted at No. In 2001, Branch released The Spirit Room, which sold two million copies in the U.S., thanks to the catchy, heartfelt hits “Everywhere” and “All You Wanted,” and ushered in a new era of young women writing and performing their own songs. The label had heard her independently released album Broken Bracelet and was impressed by her obvious songwriting talent, powerful vocal delivery, and precocious guitar chops at a time when many young female artists were singing other people’s songs. I mean, the last time I dated I was a teenager!”īranch was 17 when she signed with Maverick Records. It’s been a couple of really interesting years. “But this album is about adult, messy love and not teenage love. “My first album certainly was written without much real-life experience,” she says. A lot of these songs are about heartbreak, but knowing that it doesn’t mean the end of the world, it just means letting go and moving on and knowing that you’re going to find something better, as hard as that is.” Branch also notes that Hopeless Romantic is her first truly autobiographical record. “I love hearing human stories about people interacting with each other, and the title perfectly sums up the record. Not surprisingly, Hopeless Romantic is filled with songs about relationships. The Sedona, Arizona-born singer, songwriter, and musician went through a divorce, changed record labels, moved from Los Angeles to Nashville, fell in love, and, in the process, made the album of her dreams with her producer and now partner, Patrick Carney of The Black Keys. “City” is now the closing track on Branch’s upcoming new album Hopeless Romantic, and Branch’s world has completely changed since she wrote it. Once I sang it, I thought, ‘Oh, here we go.’”
It was one of the first things I wrote that felt really honest and it was kind of an ‘A-ha’ moment for me. ‘City’ was a song about me realizing that I wanted to make a change. I met my ex-husband when I was 19, got married at 20, and had a baby at 21. I got signed at 17 and released my first album a month after I turned 18. A lot of huge things happened to me really young. “I felt stagnant in this weird holding pattern, but I never acknowledged it to myself until I wrote that song. “I was nearing my 30th birthday and I thought, ‘Something needs to change in my life,’ she says. The two finally meet each other at the end of the music video.One day in 2012, Michelle Branch wrote a song called “City” that would turn out to be eerily prescient. There are two music videos for the song, one features Branch singing the song inside a rundown building and shows Branch posing for The Spirit Room photoshoot, this video was exclusively available via enhanced CDs until it was made available on iTunes in limited countries the official and second music video shows Branch inside her apartment spying on her crush who also seems to be spying on her as well. The song attained moderate success, reaching the top 20 in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The song received positive reviews from critics praising its lyrical content and Branch's vocal performance. The song was produced by John Shanks and was released in July 2001 by Maverick Records. It was written by Branch and John Shanks for her debut album, The Spirit Room (2001). "Everywhere" is the debut single released by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch.
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