Message to Myself
"Message to Myself" | ||||
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Single by Melissa Etheridge | ||||
from the album The Awakening | ||||
Released | 2007 | |||
Recorded | Document Room, Malibu | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 3:26 | |||
Label | Island | |||
Songwriter(s) | Melissa Etheridge | |||
Producer(s) | Melissa Etheridge, David N. Cole | |||
Melissa Etheridge singles chronology | ||||
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"Message to Myself" is a song by Melissa Etheridge and the first single of her album The Awakening released in 2007.
Song information
The song was written by the singer and is about how she writes songs to remind herself that she is fine when she is depressed – she discovers the good things in her life again when she hears these songs in the radio. The line "I've warned myself of the blackness in my chest" is a reference to the time when she was suffering from breast cancer,
Musically, the song is an up-tempo rock song that rides on a pop hook which has been described as "one of the most buoyant sing-along she's ever led".
Charts
In the United States, the song did not reach the
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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Adult contemporary
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25[citation needed] |
Germany | 52[citation needed] |
Track listing
All songs written by Melissa Etheridge.
- "Message to Myself" – 3:26
- "I Need to Wake Up" – 3:33
Music video
The video, directed by Danny Clinch, shows Melissa in a white room with her band singing along to the song which is played on an old gramophone. She is writing her message ("I'm loved") on a wall of glass until her band joins her writing various catchphrases ("simple truth", "I am almost free", "All is love", "I found my sound") on the walls until the formerly white room turns all colorful. Her spouse at the time Tammy Lynn Michaels and the couple's baby twins appear in the video too as well as other people who mean a lot to her enter the room[6] which shows the positive and optimistic character of the lyrics and how life gets better step by step listening to the music. Already at the beginning of the video snippets of the end of the video are shown when the room is crowded which is supposed to reflect the positive look in the future as soon as she can listen to her own song.
Cover artwork
The single cover of the US release looks like an abstract painting but is in fact a tinted mammography image. This has also been used for the album cover where the image pretends to show the waves of the ocean at first sight.
Credits and personnel
- Vocals and acoustic guitarby Melissa Etheridge
- Recorded and mixed by David N. Cole
- Assistant engineering by Jorge Costa and Jared Kvitka
- Mastered by Brian
References
- ^ "Interviews". Archived from the original on 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ a b "MelissaEtheridge.com – Melissa". Archived from the original on 2007-11-28. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ GoLyr.de – Kostenlos: Melissa Etheridge – Come to my window Songtext und Lyric auf Golyr.de
- ^ Melissa Etheridge singt ihre „Message To Myself” bei Thomas Gottschalk | zoolamar.com – webrebelzine
- ^ Melissa Etheridge – Message To Myself – Music Charts
- ^ YouTube – Message to myself – Melissa Etheridge