Takin' Back What's Mine

Infobox single
Name = Takin' Back What's Mine
Type = Single
Artist = Leah Haywood


Released = 16th April, 2001
Recorded = 2001
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:41
Label = Sony Music Entertainment
Producer = Paul Begaud
Jorgen Elofsson
David Hemming
Ulf Lindstrom
Johan Elkhe

Takin' Back What's Mine was the third single released by Leah Haywood from "Leah" in 2001. Unlike her first two singles, this song takes on a much more angry and dramatic tone where it deals about a girl reclaiming everything she physically owns after breaking up with her boyfriend. The single took a departure from her previous two where her image was moulded to be more "Britney-esque" by singing more angsty pop songs with a touch of rock. It was released nearly 6 months after her second single, "Crazy", had first charted while she was still writing and recording for her debut album. The song has been featured a few times in the Australian soap drama "Neighbours" just like her debut single "We Think It's Love" and is also one of the tracks featured on the CD portion of "Neighbours: The Music".

The single debuted and peaked at #18 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. It fared slightly better than her previous single did by becoming a top 20 hit and staying in the top 50 for 8 weeks. A non-album track "Anytime" (co-written by Barbara Griffin & Leah) was included on the single in addition to an alternate recording of an acoustic version of "We Think It's Love". The single was also part of the Sony Hitz music campaign containing a bonus sticker sheet featuring Leah and other artists on the label.

Music Video

The music video for Takin' Back What's Mine was directed by Mark Hartley (who had also directed the music video for her second single Crazy) featuring a girl dressed in black and wearing a black mask entering her ex-boyfriend's house to steal his belongings. Leah is also featured throughout the video standing on the stairs wearing a black sleeveless top and navy blue jeans and alternating with a white top when she sings on the balcony and on top of the stairs. She is also accompanied with four female dancers dressed in black catsuits and a mask similar to the main girl in the story. Towards the end of the video, there are shots the girl taking some of the items sung in the song such as "the goldfish" and "the dog" before she gets in a car and drives off with all of the stolen items.

There are two edits to this music video, a censored version and an uncensored version. The censored version used panning shots of Leah on top of the stairs during the bridge of the song while the uncensored version showed footages of the girl in the story beating up her ex-boyfriend with karate moves and also spoofing a shot of the matrix kick. Due to the violent nature of this scene, "Video Hits" would always air the censored version because of its family friendly time slot while "rage" always aired the uncensored version.

Track listing

1. Takin' Back What's Mine (3:41)
2. Anytime (3:59)
3. We Think It's Love (Acoustic) (3:18) "this version is slightly different from the one on the "Crazy" single

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