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Graduation (Friends Forever)

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Released
  
April 4, 2000

Recorded
  
1999

Label
  
Elektra

Format
  
CD single

Genre
  
Pop, trip hop

Length
  
5:39 (Album Version) 4:26 (Radio Edit)

"Graduation (Friends Forever)" is a single by American pop singer Vitamin C released in 2000 through Elektra Entertainment. It was the third single from her debut studio album, Vitamin C. The song is well known for being played at high school graduations and at some middle school and elementary school promotions.

Contents

Content

The opening lyrics of "Graduation (Friends Forever)" allude to "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople. The song is heavily based on Pachelbel's Canon in D, transposed to the key of C major, and also includes the opening of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30. Some radio stations played an alternate version, which features clips of students talking about graduation dispersed through the song. After the song became popular, the album was reissued in United States to include both versions, with the "Student Interview Mix" being a hidden track. Several years after the song's initial peak, Radio Disney made a new edit to cater to their younger demographic, in which the interviews of students graduating high school were replaced by interviews of students graduating elementary school and middle school.

Reception

The single reached number twelve on the Top 40 Mainstream, number twenty-three on the Rhythmic Top 40 and number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 30, 2000, after reaching the Top 40 on May 9, becoming her second single to reach the Top 40. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" reached number two on the Australian ARIA Charts, peaked at number twenty-one in New Zealand on the RIANZ Charts, reached number thirteen in the Swedish Singles Chart and number four on the Irish Singles Chart. The single was certified Platinum in Australia.

Music video

The music video for "Graduation (Friends Forever)" was directed by Gregory Dark and was filmed at Van Nuys High School. The video is featured in the DirecTV original show Rock and a Hard Place.

Track listing

German CD Single

  1. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (LP Version) - 5:39
  2. "Me, Myself And I" (Pablo Flores Miami Mix – Radio Edit) - 4:36
  3. "Me, Myself And I" (Jonathan Peters Radio Edit) - 4:00

Australian CD Single

  1. Friends Forever (Graduation) (Edit) - 4:26
  2. Friends Forever (Graduation) (LP Version) - 5:40
  3. Not That Kind Of Girl (LP Version) - 3:28

US Promo CD Single

  1. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (Edit)
  2. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (LP Version)
  3. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (LP Version w/ Student Interviews)
  4. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (Instrumental)
  5. "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (Call Out Hook)
  6. Audio Bio
  • Was featured during the prom scene in the 2012 film 21 Jump Street.
  • Was featured during the car scene in the movie Scary Movie 2. In the scene, the main character Cindy is driving to Hell House while the song is playing the radio. She starts singing along (albeit horribly off-key) until midway through she is interrupted by Vitamin C herself who tells her to stop it.
  • The song was covered by T-Squad on their only album T-Squad.

    • References

    Graduation (Friends Forever) Wikipedia
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