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  Cover Head over Feet single coverjpg
  Artist Alanis Morissette
  From Album Jagged Little Pill
  Released 1996
  Format CD Single
  Genre Rock
  Label Maverick
  Writer Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
  Producer Glen Ballard
  Chart Position <ul><li>#1 <small>( US Adult Top 40 )</small></li>
  Last Single " Ironic " <br>(1996)
  This Single "Head over Feet" <br>(1996)
  Next Single " All I Really Want " <br>(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 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). 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 singles '' (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).


HARMONIC STRUCTURE

Head over Feet has a harmonic structure that is unusual in a number of ways. First, the choruses are in a different key than the verses. Each verse begins and ends in the key of C Major, whereas each chorus begins in the key of D major. As a result, the end of each chorus the song modulates down a major second. It is common for pop and rock songs to modulate up a second or a third as a way to heighten excitement, but it is very rare for a song to modulate down.

Second, the song uses a at the beginning of each chorus. Direct modulations are the type of modulation most common in popular music, and involve simply ending one phrase in one key and beginning the next (here, the beginning of each chorus) in a different key. The progression, starting with the end of the verse, is: I, V, vi, IV, D: I, vi, IV, V, etc. .


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