| "Nothing 'Bout Me" | ||||
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| Single by Sting | ||||
| from the album Ten Summoner's Tales | ||||
| Released | 14 February 1994[1] | |||
| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Sting | |||
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"Nothing 'Bout Me" is a song by English singer-songwriter Sting as the final single from his fourth studio album, Ten Summoner's Tales (1993). In Canada, the single was released in autumn of 1993, although in the rest of the world, it was released in early February 1994 by A&M Records. The song peaked at numbers 57 and 43 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, and also reached the top 50 in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.
The song features an AABA song structure with ascending chords at the end of the verses and the coda. A walking bass line is also present throughout. The melody uses 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 13 tones within the key of E-flat, creating a hexatonic scale, although according to Christopher Rait's 2019 doctoral dissertation on Sting's music for Canada's York University, it can be "more readily heard as a tertiary stack".[2]
Sting commented that the song was "a tongue-in-cheek reaction to all the amateur psychology I'm subjected to whenever I put an album out. Listeners figure they can work you out through the songs. And they probably can. I'm not sure it suits my purpose to be so transparent though, so this is my attempt at diverting that. It's supposed to be a funny song."[3]
- ^ "Single Releases". Music Week. 12 February 1994. p. 21.
- ^ Rait, Matthew (May 2019). The Music of Sting (PhD thesis). York University. pp. 178, 198. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ "Sting Interview: The Independent on Sunday (1994)". Sting.com. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.