...on the Radio (Remember the Days)

Infobox Single
Name = ...on the Radio (Remember the Days)


Artist = Nelly Furtado
from Album = Whoa, Nelly!
Released = December 3, 2001
flagicon|AUSJanuary 22, 2002
flagicon|UKFebruary 19, 2002
Format = CD single, digital download, maxi single, 12" single
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Electronica, soul, trip hop
Length = 3:55
Label = DreamWorks
Writer = Nelly Furtado
Producer = Gerald Eaton, Brian West
Last single = "Turn off the Light"
(2001)
This single = "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)"
(2001)
Next single = "Hey Man!"
(2002)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = CD Maxi cover"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)", also known as "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)", is the third official single from Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado's first album, "Whoa, Nelly!". The song's album title was "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)"; the word "shit" was censored and removed from the title for radio airplay and substituted on the cover art with "#*@!!".

Despite the success of Furtado's previous two singles, the song failed to chart on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 and began a string of singles for Furtado that failed to chart, until 2006 with "Promiscuous". "#*@!! on the Radio (Remember the Days)" charted in other countries and reached fourteen on the Canadian BDS Airplay Chart.

Furtado, who wrote the song in one session, said it is about the feelings of insecurity she experienced when hiding her desire to make pop music to fit in with her underground musical peers. "I could try to be cool and whatever, but why do I have to try?", she said. "Why can't I just be myself? The moment you make that step and say, 'I want to make pop music' is a big thing. But no matter what happens to me there'll always be someone going, 'Oh, her music sucks now because everyone likes it.' I feel that song a lot."

Music video

The music video was directed by Hype Williams and features fellow British Columbian recoding artists Swollen Members. The video begins with a remix of the intro of the song, with Furtado writing in chalk the directors name and editors name. The video finally begins with Furtado listening to music with earmuffs and the camera is showing parts of the room where Furtado is in. The lyrics begin and Furtado is singing on the bed with earmuffs and she gets up and picks up a radio and walks out of the house. She gets in a car while these dancers start doing tricks in an alleyway, the second verse shows Furtado singing to the camera while driving a car and she ends up where the dancers are and starts to singing the chorus with them while dancing. The bridge shows Furtado lying in the grass holding a flower and singing upwards to the camera, and then shows her running up to the stage where there is a concert going on and she begins to sing the last part of the song. The crowd of the concert begin to shout "Myself" while the music stops then begins again. The video ends with Furtado quick 15 seconds flashes on a TV screen singing, dancing with the dancers and singing at the concert.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)."

Australian CD maxi-single [ [http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/furtado_nelly/albums.jhtml?albumId=690036 MTV.com: Australian CD single] ] [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/189654 discogs.com: AUS CD Maxi-Single] ]
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (explicit version) - 3:54
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (clean version) - 3:54
#"Turn off the Light" (remix) (featuring Ms. Jade and Timbaland) - 4:40
#"Turn off the Light" (Decibel's after Midnight mix) - 7:00

European CD single [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/1194920 European CD single] ]
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (semi-clean version) - 3:54
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (explicit version) - 3:54

CD maxi-single [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/423540 Nelly Furtado - ...on the Radio / Turn off the Light] ]
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (semi-clean version) - 3:54
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (explicit version) - 3:54
#"Turn off the Light" (remix) (featuring Ms. Jade and Timbaland) - 4:40
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (music video)

UK CD maxi-single [ [http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/furtado_nelly/albums.jhtml?albumId=690035 ...on the Radio [UK Single | Album Track Listing | MTV] ] [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/530745 UK CD maxi-single] ]
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (explicit version) - 3:54
#"...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Carl H. vocal mix) - 5:26
#"I'm like a Bird" (Nelly vs. Asher Remix)

Remixes

* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Carl H. Vocal Mix) (5:26)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Carl H. Dub Mix)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Yoggie's Reggae Mix) (4:02)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Yoggie's Tuff Riddim Remix)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (A Dan The Automator Remix) (4:20)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (DJ Yomy Remember The Ultimix Remix)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (DJ Fontez Remix) (4:19)

Other versions

* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (LP Version)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Album Version) (3:57)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Single Version) (3:55)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Karaoke Version) (4:14)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Explicit Version) (3:54)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Clean Version) (3:54)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Semi Clean Version) (3:54)
* "...on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (Squeeky Clean Version)

Charts

References

External links

*Youtube|s8NDQls3_kc|"...On the Radio (Remember the Days)" music video