Head over Feet

"Head over Feet"
Artwork for European and Australian releases
Single by Alanis Morissette
from the album Jagged Little Pill
B-side
  • "You Learn (Live)"
  • "Hand In My Pocket (Live)"
  • "Right Through You (Live)"
ReleasedJuly 22, 1996 (1996-07-22)[1]
Recorded1994–1995[2]
Length4:27
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Glen Ballard
Alanis Morissette singles chronology
"Ironic"
(1996)
"Head over Feet"
(1996)
"All I Really Want"
(1996)
Music video
"Head over Feet" on YouTube

"Head over Feet" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, taken from her third (and first outside Canada) studio album Jagged Little Pill (1995). Written by Alanis and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard, it was released as the album's fifth single outside of the United States in July 1996 and presented a softer sound than the previous singles from the album. "Head over Feet" talks about being best friends and lovers with someone at the same time, with Alanis thanking them for their manners, love and devotion.

"Head over Feet" received positive response from critics, who described it as soft and light. The song became Morissette's first number-one hit on the US Billboard Adult Top 40 chart and also topped the Top 40/Mainstream chart. In the United Kingdom, it was her first top-10 single, and it reached the top 20 in Australia. In Canada, the song spent eight weeks at number one on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks Chart, the most of any of her four number-one songs from Jagged Little Pill. The single also peaked at number one in Iceland.

A live version of "Head over Feet" is featured on the album Alanis Unplugged (1999), and an acoustic version of the song was recorded for the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005). The song is included in the Jagged Little Pill musical and is performed on the show's soundtrack by actors Celia Rose Gooding, Antonio Cipriano, Elizabeth Stanley and Sean Allan Krill.

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  2. ^ "Entertainment Weekly October 9, 2015".