This Year's Love (song)

Infobox Single
Name = This Year's Love


Artist = David Gray
from Album = White Ladder
A-side =
B-side = "Flame Turns Blue", "The Lights of London"
Released = 2001
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Iht Records
Writer = David Gray
Producer = David Gray
Certification =
Last single = "Babylon" (2000)
This single = "This Year's Love" (2001)
Next single = "Babylon" (single remix edit) (2001)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Last single = "Please Forgive Me" (re-issue) (2001)
This single = "This Year's Love" (re-issue) (2001)
Next single = "Sail Away"
(2001) |

"This Year's Love" is a song by artist David Gray from his 1999 album "White Ladder". It was the third single released from the album. The single peaked at #18 in the UK Singles Chart.

ong structure

The song features vocals and piano by Gray; it also has some strings played in the background; these are more accentuated on the single (strings remix) version, which also has some gentle drumming in the background.

Music video

The video features Gray playing a small piano and a permanent individual cloud is raining over him. Also the main character has an individual cloud raining over him, it moves in the same direction as he does. First he is given a "map to the stars" envelope by a kid, it has the word HOPE written in it. Later, a man talks to him and convinces him to stand in a car. He is seen afterwards talking to a woman. It's raining on the whole street, but when it stops, the rain is falling only on the character. She notices it and runs away. Seeing that the cloud caused this problem, he runs away from the cloud trying to escape from it, but his efforts are worthless. He then opens the "map to the stars" envelope. In it there is a coordinate of a place, the character starts following it and it leads him to the desert, in a place where three other people are standing, with their own individual clouds above them. Suddenly the character faints and transforms into David Gray, and the cloud, along with the people disappears. Afterwards, in the night, a group of flashing lights — apparently the stars — are seen in the direction of Gray, floating down to earth.

Notable appearances of the song

The song can be heard in:

* the season-four episode of the television show "Dawson's Creek".
* "Wimbledon".
* "The Girl Next Door". A piano-solo version of the song is also featured in the movie.
* "Crazy/Beautiful"; however, it is not on the movie's soundtrack.
* The movie "This Year's Love".