Robbed hit of the week 07/29/24 - Three Days Grace's "(I Hate) Everything About You"...
"(I Hate) Everything About You" - Three Days Grace
from the album Three Days Grace (2003)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #55 (three weeks)
This week's "robbed hits" comes from the Canadian hard rock band Three Days Grace, who came together originally with three members of the former group Groundswell in the southern Ontario outskirts of Toronto in the late 1990's. Lead singer/guitarist Adam Gontier, bassist Brad Walst, and drummer Neil Sanderson moved to the United States, recording their self-titled debut album for Jive Records in central Massachussetts. Three Days Grace was released in the summer of 2003, preceded by the lead single that helped the band land their record deal, "(I Hate) Everything About You". Written by Gontier, the song starts out vague about the state of the relationship Adam finds himself in, coming to the realization that it's no fun anymore. The lyrics are pretty crude with "Every roommate kept awake by every sigh and scream we make" followed by the seemingly conflicted "All the feelings that I getbut I still don't miss you yet.". The production from Gavin Brown is sufficiently angsty, with the guitar crunch punctuating Gontier's yelling vocals. The music video tries to expand the anger in the song to three different scenarios including an abused young man, a cheated-on boyfriend, and a heartbroken young woman....
While "Everything About You" was big on rock radio, spending two weeks at #2 on Billboard magazine's Alternative Rock chart and peaking at #4 on their Mainstream Rock counterpart, and even hit #28 on the Mainstream Top-40 airplay list, the song stalled under the halfway mark on the Hot 100 in December of 2003. Internationally, the single was a top-40 hit in Australia at #22. The Three Days Grace album, released in July of that year, only made it to #69 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, but stayed on the list for 84 weeks, going on to sell over a million copies.
The band's follow-up single, "Just Like You", managed to top both the Alternative and Mainstream Rock radio charts, but again stopped at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. The third release from the set, "Home", stopped at #90 on the Hot 100, while spending six weeks at #2 on the Mainstream Rock chart and hit #7 on the Alternative counterpart.
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Here's the band live for a radio concert...
and finally in concert with new leader Matt Walst....
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