Better Now (Collective Soul song)

"Better Now" is a 2004 song by the American alternative rock band Collective Soul, released as the second single off their 2004 album, Youth. It was written by singer/guitarist Ed Roland and producer Dexter Green.

"Better Now"
Single by Collective Soul
from the album Cursed: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Youth
ReleasedNovember 16, 2004
GenrePop rock
Length3:14
LabelEl
Songwriter(s)Ed Roland, Dexter Green
Producer(s)Ed Roland, Dexter Green
Collective Soul singles chronology
"Counting the Days"
(2004)		 "Better Now"
(2004)		 "How Do You Love"
(2005)

The coda features a saxophone solo. In concert, this is replaced with a guitar solo. The radio edit version also includes a guitar solo.[1] Also unusual for a rock song, the bass doesn't come in until the first chorus, and plays prominent alternating root / fifth quarter notes.

Jason Damas of PopMatters described the song as "a big, energetic pop hook set to a Cars-ish, robotic grind, and is spiked with a colorful layer of horns for color."[2]

The song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at #117 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.

Track listing
Promo single (CD00036)
  1. "Better Now" – (3:14)

Charts

Weekly charts
Chart (2005) Peak
position
Canada Hot AC Top 30 (Radio & Records)[3] 3
US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[4] 10
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[5] 9

Trivia
  • The Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, Indiana uses the song in recent television and radio ads.
  • The Kellogg Company used it in an ad for its Special K cereal, "feeling better now" in this instance being used to denote a woman's feeling healthier after going on their "Special K diet."[6]
  • For the 2008 Canadian election, Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper used the song as his intro music when he entered his party HQ for a victory speech. The song was similarly used in the 2011 Conservative federal election campaign. The song was once again featured heavily by the Conservative Party during the 2015 federal election campaign.[7]
  • The ending of the film Cursed. It is also featured on the soundtrack to the film.[8][9]
  • The band performed the song in the Charmed episode "Scry Hard".[10]
  • The trailer for the 2007 film Wild Hogs features the song.[11]

References
  1. "Better Now by Collective Soul - Songfacts". www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  2. "Collective Soul: Youth". PopMatters. 2005-01-16. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  3. "RR Canada Hot AC Top 30" (PDF). p. 66. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  4. "Collective Soul Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  5. "Collective Soul Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  6. North Star Media (2013-12-04), Collective Soul - Better Now (Special K Advertising Placement), retrieved 2018-11-23
  7. "Synthpop, hip-hop, 'dude rock': Canadian campaign songs, for better or worse | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  8. Robert Hiltz, Orchestrating an election: Music sets tone on campaign trail, Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
  9. "Various - Cursed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  10. "Music from Charmed (1998) S7E17". Tunefind. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  11. "Trailer Music: Wild Hogs (2007)". www.soundtrack.net. Retrieved 2018-11-23.


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