It Happens
"It Happens" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music duo Sugarland. It was released in February 2009 as the third single from their album Love on the Inside. The duo's members, Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, wrote the song along with Bobby Pinson, with whom the duo also co-wrote the album's first two singles, "All I Want to Do" and "Already Gone".
Content
"It Happens" is an up-tempo accompanied by steel-string acoustic guitar and electric guitar. In it, the female narrator (Jennifer Nettles, the duo's lead singer) tells of oversleeping and coming to work late. She borrows her neighbor's car to drive to "Wally World" in the second verse, and is involved in an accident with her ex and his new girlfriend. A "Pssh" sound precedes the phrase "It happens" on all but the second chorus, so as to make the phrase sound like "shit happens".
Reception
In his review of the album, Entertainment Weekly critic Chris Willman said that the song recalled "cheekily potty-mouthed hits like Blake Shelton's 'Some Beach'." Thom Jurek of Allmusic cited the song as an example of the album's personal influence, as Nettles had gone through a divorce while writing it. Matt Bjorke described the song favorably as well in his review for the Roughstock website. He called it "a playful, irreverent song" and considered it a better single choice than "Love" (which was originally slated as the album's third single), because he thought that "It Happens" showed a more traditionally country sound than "Love" did.
Podcasts:
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by Dar Williams
It Happens Every Day
by: Dar WilliamsThe first part of every day for me is good, I've got the bus stop in my
neighborhood, Everything's on purpose, everywhere theygo, Hiding in my car and
running in the snow, Running with the friends they'll know for years, I've seen
it all from here, from here. It happens every day, before they go to school,
They play until the bus drives up beside my lan, And there's always been a
mother who waits till they are gone, Then she turns away, Happens every day.
Noon comes and turns this campus upside down, I watch the students in this
college town. You would think they're earefree, I have seen their trials,
Frowning into Shakespeare and practicing their smiles, Even underlining
Nabokov, When I am not in love, in love. It happens every day, with their
journals and cafes, Looking up at their reflections on the other wall, With
every new idea, wondering if they've changed at all, Then they turn away, it
happens every day. Life is as hard and as easy as they say, Walking the staps
we've chosen on this day. Some w
ill be outrageous, some have rarely shown, Some will walk like couples, some
quite alone. As I think about the world I see, They stare and smile at me, at
me. It happens every day, at the crossing of the street Looking out to see
what's new and what is still the same, And the only word for lovei s
everybody's name, And that will always stay, happens everyday. And every day