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"7 Things"
John Fields
Miley Cyrus singles chronology
"Start All Over"
(2007) 		"7 Things"
(2008) 		"Fly on the Wall"
(2008)
Music video
"7 Things" on
YouTube

"7 Things" is a song by American singer

pop punk
, while the lyrics in the song's refrain list seven traits Cyrus hates about an ex-boyfriend.

"7 Things" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics and enjoyed worldwide commercial success, becoming a top ten hit on charts in Australia, Japan, Norway, and the United States. The single was

Wonder World Tour and the Gypsy Heart Tour. The song premiered before its official release as a single on May 13, 2008, at the Elvis Duran Show.[2]

Background

"7 Things" is also under the

Best of Both Worlds Tour from October 2007 to January 2008.[4]

"I was locked up in the bus the entire time. And it was, like, such a great time for me to have a minute for myself, which I never get. So it was awesome to get to do that and just kinda go through all the different stages of what's been going on the last couple of years. And I just thought it'd be fun to just kinda. I didn't even mean for it to be for, you know, the record or for anything. It was just like 'just start writing this'. I got into it and I played some of it for my sister and she was like, 'dude, that's awesome'. And it was just so much fun to have, like, a good, little therapy moment for me, just to be able to go through everything. It was awesome. It was so much fun to write."[4]

Cyrus says "7 Things" was inspired by an

ex-boyfriend.[5] In an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Cyrus said that she was "going through [...] nine-hundred different emotions while trying to write the song" and that her use of the word "hate" demonstrated how furious she was.[4] When Seacrest asked if she was worried the song's subject would hear it and be upset, Cyrus responded that while she was slightly worried, "I want him to be upset. That was my point."[4] She showed her draft to co-songwriters and producers Tim James and Antonina Armato, who suggested adding it to Breakout.[4] Originally, "7 Things" was more "soft and nice" but Cyrus says she "went nuts" during the recording process and gave the song a harder sound.[6] Cyrus had initially chosen "Fly on the Wall" as the lead single from Breakout, but replaced it with "7 Things" because she felt it was a "better introduction" to the album.[7]

Nick Jonas allegations

A three-quarter portrait of a male teen looking forward. He has dark, curly hair, wears a black leather jacket, and strums a guitar hung over his shoulder.
The release of "7 Things" was followed by allegations that it was about Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.

Allegations that "7 Things" was about Nick Jonas, lead singer of the Jonas Brothers, arose soon after the song's premiere on the May 13, 2008, broadcast of the Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.[8] Cyrus and Jonas had dated for a year and a half before breaking up in late 2007.[9] Cyrus claimed, "Nick and I loved each other" and that after the breakup she "bawled for a month straight" while trying to rebel "against everything Nick wanted [her] to be".[9]

Henry Freeland of Paste described "7 Things" as "the list of reasons she hates an ex-boyfriend (who just might be lead Jonas Brother, Nick)" and her "concern [...] that all of this hatred only leads them to love Maybe-Nick [...] all the more".[10] Blogger Molly Lambert, quoted in The New York Times said, "[Cyrus] had recently broken up with her first serious boyfriend — a fellow Disney celebrity, Nick Jonas, of the Jonas Brothers, who was also her arena-concert tour mate during their secret two-year affair. In the video for '7 Things' she wears Nick’s diabetes dog tags while singing about how his vanity and insecurity undermined their relationship."[11] Jessica Herndon of People similarly points out the necklace and the fact that Jonas, "who split with Cyrus in late 2008 after two-and a half years of dating – has Type 1 diabetes and is a spokesperson for awareness of the disease."[12] When asked if the allegations were true, Cyrus said,

"[W]ith '7 Things,' I think a lot of people do, you know, think it’s about Nick Jonas, and if they think it is, that’s fine, or whoever they think it’s about. But mostly that song is about who, um, they want it to be to. Like mostly, it’s if a girl hates her current, or ex-boyfriend—for me it’s an ex-boyfriend—so I think, you know, like, Nick is someone that was really important in my life, but I don’t hate him. It’s a good song and it’s fun."[13]

Jonas responded to the allegations with, "I think it's funny. Honestly, I'm not insecure, my friends are cool—so it can't be about me!"[13] According to Tiger Beat magazine, when Cyrus' best friend Mandy Jiroux was asked if "7 Things" was about Jonas; she responded, "yes".[14]

Composition

Miley Cyrus - "7 Things" (2008)
The uptempo refrains of Miley Cyrus' "7 Things" are pop rock influenced.
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"7 Things" is a

verse in the song's fourth bar.[17] At each chorus, "7 Things" speeds up dramatically and Cyrus' vocals become aggressive and forceful;[20] Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly described the transition as "from sensitive breakup song in the strummy verses to punky-pop kiss-off in the double-time choruses."[21] McAlpine noted the stress Cyrus places on vowels in the song: "'yerw' instead of 'you', 'erw' instead of 'oh', and so on...".[18]

The song's lyrics are written in

text it, I'll delete it", which Molly Lambert of The New York Times said "perfectly captur[es] our confusing age of technologically mediated courtship."[11] The song concludes with a variation of the refrain, in which Cyrus names the seven things she likes the most about her ex, again concluding with "you make me love you".[22]

Critical reception

Wonder World Tour

"7 Things" received mixed reviews from critics. Fraser McAlpine of the

Allmusic contended, "7 Things" is a twangy, clever piece of love-hate pop that feels descended from Shania Twain's flirty mix of rock and country" and marked it as one of the best tracks on Breakout.[23] Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly called it one of Breakout's "best tunes" because it "let Cyrus be feisty without graduating to Avril-like levels of petulance"[21] while Josh Timmermann of PopMatters finds it "appealing".[24]

Mordechai Shinefield of

About.com said the "winning performance" demonstrated that "Miley Cyrus does not intend to simply be a TV-generated phenomenon in the pop music world. She is a compelling pop artist in her own right."[20]

Chart performance

On the week ending June 21, 2008, "7 Things" debuted at number 85 on the Billboard Hot 100.[29] The song ascended to number seventy the week ending July 5, 2008, before jumping to number 10 in its third week due to sales of 130,000 digital downloads.[30][31] "7 Things" moved up to number nine on the week ending July 26, 2008, surpassing "See You Again" and becoming Cyrus' best charting effort on the Hot 100.[32][33] The single managed to spend fifteen weeks on the Hot 100, and was ranked at number 92 in the Year-End in 2008. "7 Things" also peaked at number 14 on the now-canceled Pop 100 chart.[34] In Canada, the song debuted at number 40 on the week ending July 5, 2008, and peaked at number 13 on the week ending July 26, 2008.[29][33] As of March 2023, "7 Things" has sold 2,000,000 units in the United States and was certified two-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[35]

"7 Things" was also a success in Australia and New Zealand. The song made its debut on the

Japan Hot 100;[29] it reached number nine on the week ending October 17, 2008, and reached its peak at number eight on the week ending October 24, 2008.[39][40]

In the

Norwegian Singles Chart on August 19, 2008.[43] The song experienced similar commercial outcomes throughout the rest of Europe; it charted within the top 40 of charts in Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Germany, and Switzerland.[43]

Music video

A brunette female teen faces forward with hear mouth open; she wears a necklace. Behind her are two guitar players and a white background.
Cyrus wears her ex-boyfriend's medical identification tag in the "7 Things" music video.

Cyrus invited

diabetes mellitus.[5]

The video was shot on May 30, 2008, in

Madonna, saying, "she can be hanging out and laughing, and then you put the camera on her and it's like, 'Holy shit!'"[5] The effervescence made editing more difficult for the director.[5] He said, "It was the hardest video I've ever edited because every moment was great. Every moment that she was on camera, she was amazing. She's got an incredible quality about her. She gets the camera, and that's what it takes to make a great music video."[5] Cyrus commented that she felt the video was "more honest than [the] song" and that she was "singing out to [...] that special person".[4]

The video commences with a

text message from her boyfriend. At one point, Cyrus holds a photograph of her and an ex-boyfriend with black curly hair, his face obscured by a doodle
on a piece of notebook paper. At the end of the video, Cyrus blows the camera a kiss, mouths "I love you," and turns away.

Video reception

The video premiered on June 28, 2008, on

Beyoncé Knowles' music video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)".[52]

Live performances

Cyrus performing "7 Things" during the Gypsy Heart Tour

Cyrus first live performance of "7 Things" took place on May 17, 2008, at the 2008 Zootopia, an annual summer concert put on by radio station Z100.[53] Later that summer, she promoted the song at outdoor concerts hosted by Good Morning America[54] and The Today Show[55] and while hosting the 2008 Teen Choice Awards.[56] Cyrus began promotion for "7 Things" in Europe in fall 2008, performing the track on the United Kingdom breakfast TV show GMTV, the French television show Le Grand Journal and the British singing competition The X Factor among other venues.[57] She performed the song twice on FNMTV; once on August 1, 2008,[58] and again while co-hosting New Year's Eve of 2008 with Pete Wentz.[59]

Cyrus performed "7 Things" along with several other songs on April 24, 2009, in a London

Madrid, Spain 7 Things has sold more than 1,500,000 million copies in the United States.[66]

Cyrus performed the song during the Gypsy Heart Tour.

In 2021, Cyrus began performing "7 Things", at music festivals, for the first time since 2011's Gypsy Heart Tour, reintroducing the song during her Lollapalooza set.[67]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "7 Things"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[92] 2× Platinum 140,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[93] Silver 200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[94] 2× Platinum 2,000,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "7 Things"
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Australia August 25, 2008 CD single EMI [95]
Germany September 12, 2008 Universal [96]
United Kingdom November 8, 2008 Polydor [97]

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