Head over Feet

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"Head over Feet"

Single by Alanis Morissette
from the album Jagged Little Pill
Released	1996
Format	CD single
Genre	Rock
Label	Maverick
Writer(s)	Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
Producer(s)	Glen Ballard
Chart positions
#1 (U.S. Adult Top 40) #7 (UK) #12 (Australia)
Alanis Morissette singles chronology
"Ironic" (1996)	"Head over Feet" (1996)	"All I Really Want" (1997)

"Head over Feet" is a song written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard for Morissette's third album Jagged Little Pill (1995). It makes use of the phrase "friends with benefits", which means a casual, often sexual, relationship. It was released as the album's fifth single (sixth in the United States) in 1996 (see 1996 in music) and presented a softer sound than the previous singles from the album. "Head over Feet" became Morissette's first number-one hit on Billboard's U.S. Adult Top 40 chart and topped the Top 40 Mainstream chart, but it was her first song not to enter the top twenty on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. It topped the American Top 40 for eight weeks (the second most for a Morissette song after "Ironic", which spent nine weeks at number one).^{[citation needed]} In the United Kingdom it was her first top ten single, and it reached the top twenty in Australia.

There are two versions of the single's video: the "Head" version and the "Feet" version (played in Europe and Asia). Clips of the latter are featured on the DVD Jagged Little Pill, Live (1997). A live version of "Head over Feet" is featured on the album Alanis Unplugged (1999), and an acoustic version of the song was recorded for the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005).

[edit] Charts

Chart (1996)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	7
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	27
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	1
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	25
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	1
Chart (1997)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	12
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Adult Recurrents	1