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Not as We

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Recorded
  
2007

Label
  
Maverick

Genre
  
Piano rock

Released
  
November 25, 2008 (2008-11-25)

Length
  
4:45 (Album Version) 4:24 (Radio Edit)

Writer(s)
  
Alanis Morissette, Guy Sigsworth

"Not as We" is a song from Alanis Morissette's seventh studio album, Flavors of Entanglement.

Contents

It premiered on House MD when Dr.House contemplates after-life in Season 4 Episode 3 - 97 Seconds

"Not as We" was remixed and released as the second single from Flavors of Entanglement in North America, while "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man" was released as the second single in Europe.

The single was released to radio on October 13, 2008.

On November 25, 2008 the Not as We (Remixes) EP was released in Canada. The EP includes the radio edit and six other remixes.

  1. "Not as We" (Radio Edit)
  2. "Not as We" (Album Version)
  1. "Not as We" (Radio Edit)
  2. "Not as We" (Jack Shaft Radio Edit)
  3. "Not as We" (Blow-Up Edit)
  4. "Not as We" (Dangerous Muse Edit)
  5. "Not as We" (Eddie Amador's multipressor Edit)
  6. "Not as We" (DJ Lynnwood's Reborn Edit)
  7. "Not as We" (Holosound Edit)

The Album Version is a piano-driven ballad while the shorter radio edit adds guitars, bass and background effects and starts with the first line of the song while the Album Version has an instrumental opening. The music video uses the radio edit.

Music video

The music video, directed by James Whitaker and produced through RSA's promo division Black Dog Films, was shot in Los Angeles on September 10, 2008. It features imagery identifiable as being shot at Half Moon Bay. It premiered on Yahoo! Music on the night of October 2, 2008 and features Morissette in various stages on the path to emotional recovery.

Charts

The song unexpectedly charted when the album was released due to downloads of the song, resulting in a position of 22 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. As of December 2008, the song had already sold 38,000 paid downloads, according to Billboard. The digital downloads also helped the song reach the lower parts of UK Singles Chart (#197) despite the single not being commercially released in the United Kingdom.

References

Not as We Wikipedia
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