Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me)
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| Single by Simple Plan | ||
| from the album Still Not Getting Any... | ||
| Released | 2005 | |
| Format | CD Single | |
| Recorded | 2004 | |
| Genre | Pop punk | |
| Length | 4:00 | |
| Label | Atlantic | |
| Writer(s) | Simple Plan | |
| Producer(s) | ? | |
| Certification | Uncertified | |
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| Simple Plan singles chronology | ||
| "Shut Up" (2003) |
"Untitled" (2005) |
"Crazy" (2005) |
Untitled (or "How Could This Happen to Me") is a song, and a music video, by the Montreal, Canada pop punk band Simple Plan.
The song's official title, when the CD was released, was Untitled. However, when it was released as a single, it was given the parenthetical, perhaps to distinguish it from other songs named "Untitled" or else for the convenience of DJ's. The song is notable for the salient vocals and piano.
The music video tells a story of an automobile accident on a rainy night. A man, drinking alcohol while driving, inattentively drives head-on into a car driven by a woman, who dies. The man survives, relatively uninjured.
The 'hook' of the video is what happens to the victim's loved ones at the moment of impact, when it is graphically shown that there are "more victims than people think, and many lives are changed forever", to quote Simple Plan's description:
- "Over the last few years, a lot of people we know have been involved in tragic accidents caused by drinking and driving. One of the students at our high-school crashed his car driving back from a weekend trip and killed his best friend. It was a very sad time that none of us will ever forget.
- When an accident happens, there are more victims than people think, and many lives are changed forever...Parents, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, grandparents...everybody feels the impact.
- We wanted to tell a story with this video: the story about all of the innocent victims affected by drinking and driving."
[edit] Trivia
- The song was used in a Smallville episode.
- "How Could This Happen to Me" is also used on YTMND in a derogatory fashion, usually stating that something is emo.
[edit] See also
- Lyrics
- Music video on Simple Plan's website
| Simple Plan |
| Jeff Stinco | Chuck Comeau | Pierre Bouvier | Sébastien Lefebvre | David Desrosiers |
| Discography |
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| No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls | Still Not Getting Any... | MTV: Hard Rock Live |
| Videography |
| A Big Package for You | MTV: Hard Rock Live |
| Singles |
| "I'm Just a Kid" | "I'd Do Anything" | "Addicted" | "Perfect" | "Welcome to My Life" | "Shut Up!" | "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me)" | "Crazy" | "Perfect World" |
| Labels |
| Lava Records | Atlantic Records |
