2001Released
3:34

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Everywhere. By Songfacts®.

"Everywhere" was Michelle Branch's first single; she wrote the song in her Sedona, Arizona, bedroom when she was about 15 years old, not long after getting a guitar for her 14th birthday. In the song, her special someone is with her (metaphorically) everywhere, so even when they're apart, she can feel his presence. It's almost like he's a ghost, as Branch sings about "the part of you that's drifting over me." She's been asked about the deeper meaning in the song but insists it has none, saying the lyric is simply "teenage rhyme." She elaborated in a 2021 Songfacts interview, saying: "It's that feeling when you can't stop thinking about somebody. They literally permeate your thoughts and drift into everything that you're thinking about, or every little thing reminds you of that person. Still to this day, people ask what it's about and try to find a deeper meaning than a high school crush, and I'm flattered that so many people have different applications for it."

This is Branch's most popular song, but it took her a while to warm up to it. For years, she slagged it off, saying in a 2005 interview that she "despised" the song. "I was really young when I wrote it," she said. "For a lot of people that's their first impression of me, so I'm kind of stuck in this song that I wrote that doesn't really mean anything to me and I'm kind of embarrassed about. It just doesn't mean that much to me."

In its original form this song was much more subdued and Branch's label, Maverick Records, had no intention of funding the recording. But when Michelle played it for John Shanks, the producer Maverick paired her with, he heard potential in the song and had her record it anyway, tweaking the melody and giving it a huge chorus. When the label heard this new version, they were thrilled and made it the first single. Shanks, who had previously worked with Melissa Etheridge and Bonnie Raitt, earned a writing credit for his contribution.

Top Listeners

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Everywhere.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
97BPM

Album

The album Everywhere is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Everywhere.
Maverick
© 2001 Maverick Recording Company
℗ 2001 Maverick Recording Company

See your Spotify stats (with number of plays and minutes listened) and discover new music.

Music data, artist images, album covers, and song previews are provided by Spotify. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB.

5.8MArtists
73.6MSongs
12.3MAlbums
6.3KGenres
2.5MLabels
493KPlaylists