| "I Don't Care" | ||||
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| Single by Shakespear's Sister | ||||
| from the album Hormonally Yours | ||||
| Released | May 1992 | |||
| Format | 7" single CD single Cassette |
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:25 | |||
| Label | London Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Siobhan Fahey Marcella Detroit Manu Guiot Richard Feldman |
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| Producer | Alan Moulder | |||
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"I Don't Care" is a song by British based female duo Shakespears Sister, from their successful 1992 album Hormonally Yours.
The song incorporates a segment of the poem "Hornpipe" by Dame Edith Sitwell (from her Façade, and Other Poems poetry book), which is a surreal poem that attempted to capture the flow of a sailors jig. The poem is spoken by Siobhan Fahey on the song.
The song was released as the album's third single, as the follow-up to the single "Stay", which spent eight weeks at number one in the UK and six weeks at number one in Ireland. The single was successful, peaking at number 7 in the UK, becoming their last top 10 hit in that country."I Don't Care" reached the top 10 in Ireland too. It peaked at number 18 in Australia and number 11 in New Zealand. In the U.S. however it failed to replicate the top 10 success of "Stay" and it peaked at number 55.
In the UK the single was released as a two-part CD single.
The music video, directed by Sophie Muller, showed Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit's characters plotting to kill one another. The video ends with a climax on a mock stage - Fahey dressed in Victorian garb, in contrast to Detroit's poised and refrained character.
The video mirrored the internal struggle the duo was going through, as their personal relationship was deteriorating and eventually the duo was ended by Fahey in 1993.
| Chart (1992) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 18 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 29 |
| Dutch Mega Top 100 | 57 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 10 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 11 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 38 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 28 |
| UK Singles Chart | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 55 |
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