“Absolutely (Story of a Girl)” by Nine Days

"Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" was the lead single from Nine Days' fourth album, The Madding Crowd, going out in March 2000 on 550 Music and Epic, and it's a blast of sunny power pop with a hook you could spot from across the mall. Singer and guitarist John Hampson wrote it about the woman who was then his girlfriend and later his wife, and the band cut it at Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta with Nick DiDia producing and Chris Lord-Alge mixing it bright and punchy.

It climbed to number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and into the top 10 in Canada and New Zealand, and Liz Friedlander's video got played on MTV and VH1. Years later it found a second life in Everything Everywhere All at Once, which used it in both the music and the dialogue, with Hampson writing several alternate versions for the film.

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