Talk:Complicated (Avril Lavigne song)

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Winnermario, can we leave the date as just 2002? Complicated was released at different times in 2002 in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US, so if we put down April 2002, it could be a little misleading. Also I removed Hot Digital Songs. Where did you get the info that it hit #1 or even charted? The chart didn.t exist until 2005. OmegaWikipedia 13:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right, so we will just leave it as 2002. And the chart position for the Hot Digital Songs was from an inaccurate webpage, so thanks for removing that. I was just wondering if you could add the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart as well? Winnermario 23:33, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm trying to find it. Do you know if Complicated was released as a cd single in the USA btw? And seeing as Avril is Canadian, do you think we should change the singlebox a bit (the format section) and the lead paragraph to show that? I mean articles by Americian artists reflect Americian formats, so I'm guessing this should reflect Canada more OmegaWikipedia 23:46, 11 September 2005 (UTC) ?
 * Also, I noticed you added a platinum certification. Since hardly any singles really get released in the USA now, and it came out before digital dowloads, I'm guessing you meant Candada. Is the stuff I found about the CRIA right? OmegaWikipedia 00:12, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

the harmonic progression
I know someone really went to the trouble of analysing the different harmonics in the song, but it doesn't really add anything generally informative to the article...it just seems somewhat obscure and random to have it there, so I'm removing it and pasting it here for future reference if anyone was interested in the harmonic progression of the song. Dagari 13:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Here's the info:

The acoustic guitar is tuned down a whole step, and the song is in F major. The introduction is a strummed vi-IV-I-V which returns as the chorus with different rhythmic accents. The verse of the song uses a I-vi-IV-V sequence, while the prechorus uses a IV-vi movement: IV-vi-IV-V. Finally the chorus arrives with vi-IV-I-V. Dagari 13:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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Matrix version
i thought for the longest time that the matrix version had something to do with the movie; this page lists both versions, but doesn't bother to specify what the differences are, or which one charted. does anyone happen to know definitively either way? 04:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Staking Place
Um, what the eff is a "staking place"? Mentioned twice in this article. 216.64.147.98 (talk) 00:03, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

lol, should be "skating", someone fix... eh, whatever, it's Avril Lavigne, leave it.

Atop the Fourth Wall reference
There was a bit in an episode of Atop the Fourth Wall where Linkara responds to a line "something something complicated" with "I see the way you're actin' like you're somebody else gets me frustrated", but I forget which one! - Ndrly (talk) 12:43, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

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Vocals and Editing
For some odd reason, during the final chorus of the song, there seems to be a duo of vocal doubles when Avril sings "I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated / Life's like this you, you fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get and you turn it into" or it sounds like two different recordings of her saying these words were overlayered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.23.94.165 (talk) 02:50, 31 October 2022 (UTC)