I Won't Change You

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“I Won't Change You”
“I Won't Change You” cover
Single by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
from the album Shoot From The Hip
B-side "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"
Released December 22, 2003 (UK)
December 29, 2003
Format CD single
Genre Pop–Dance
Length 3:40
Label Polydor Records
Writer(s) Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Gregg Alexander
Matt Rowe
Producer Gregg Alexander
Matt Rowe
Sophie Ellis-Bextor singles chronology
"Mixed Up World"
(2003)		 "I Won't Change You"
(2003)		 "Circles (Just My Good Time)"
(2005)
Alternative cover
UK CD2
UK CD2

}} "I Won't Change You" is a pop song written by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gregg Alexander and Matt Rowe for Ellis-Bextor's second album Shoot From The Hip (2003). The song was released as the album's second single in December 2003, reaching number nine on the UK singles chart.

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[edit] Music Video

When the music video was filmed, Sophie was pregnant[citation needed]. The song's music video was directed by Trudy Bellinger at 'The Crocker's Folly' and was released in December 2003.[1]

The video features Ellis-Bextor speed dating, changing her looks multiple times to attract a partner. First, she wears a brown wig consisting of a part down the middle of her head and a pony-tail on either side, after a second round with the same man (merely taking off her gold trench coat to reveal a tight fitting black dress underneath) she looks like an informal, yet sophisticated red head woman. Progressively, she then becomes a black-haired woman, the hair being short, full and curly. After staring into he drink, which suspectly turns bright blue, she is seen dancing with the man who she continuously changes for, in a blue dress and a Marilyn Monroe-esk blonde wig. Finally, you see her in a black haed scarf and long wavey blonde hair. All the while, she is singing to the same man, who finds this night of speed dating an escalating amusement and she eventually ends up in the arms of him, using editing techniques to change which "Sophie" is in his arms. Throughout the video, there are scenes of Sophie in the bathroom in her original look singing to the mirror and changing outfits in a stall.

[edit] Track listing and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "I Won't Change You".

UK CD single 1
(Released December 22, 2003)

  1. "I Won't Change You"
  2. "Murder on the Dancefloor" (Phunk Investigation Vocal mix)

UK CD single 2
(Released December 22, 2003)

  1. "I Won't Change You"
  2. "I Won't Change You" (Solaris Vocal mix)
  3. "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"
  4. "I Won't Change You" music video

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2003) Peak
position[2]
UK Singles Chart 9
Irish Singles Chart 40
German Singles Chart 80

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "I Won't Change You" Music Video. mvdbase.com. Retrieved July 2, 2007.
  2. ^ World Chart Positions. acharts.us. Retrieved July 2, 2007.
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