As mentioned the song because of you as originally wrote the song with David Hodges and Ben Moody, the pair were former members of the band evanescence and they also worked to produce the video. During summer 2008 the song became the second most played song for the past 5 years through all forms of media communication within the UK. 2009 saw the single become the biggest single of an american idol album, with over seven million albums worldwide and was ranked 7th most successful pop song of all time by billboard within the same year.
The idea of the song focuses on the cycle of families and the idea of nature/nurture. In the sense that we act how our parents acted towards us and therefore this is a continuous cycle which in some circumstances can be a continuous negative cycle.
The song was written back when kelly was 16 as she was trying to deal with emotional stress that she herself was trying to deal with as the result of her parents divorce. However when she met with Moody and Hodges and decided to start working with them she asked them if they'd aid her with polishing of the final aspects of the song.
Her Label 'thankful' never wished to release the song yet it won her an ASCAP songwriters award for "Song of the Year"
The video because of you was directed by Vadim Perelman and is based upon the true story that is kelly's troubled childhood.
At the beginning of the video we see the Clarkson household where a heated argument is taking place between her and her partner. We see a threat of the fiance threatening to smash a picture of the family. Time freezes and with this so does the character which is her partner. However Clarkson is a separate part of this her character still keep the ability to move and be mobile. We see her character looking around her house, and onlooking upon her younger self. She takes the hand of her younger self and the two relive her troubled childhood as various painful memories are played. An example of this sees the younger Clarkson making a picture for her father, who tosses it into the sink, and Clarkson's mother making an unappreciated dinner for her father. These events drive her mother to the point of taking pills and crying in front of the younger Clarkson.
The breaking point for the Clarkson parents is a finals physical fight which gets out of hand and we see them throwing object and attacking each other. Shortly after this were shown her farther with his bags packs leaving with the younger kelly trying to get him to stay yet he pulls away and we can tell he leaves at this point we see the older Clarkson running back into the house but in a sense is running back in time to the present day. Here we see time unfreeze the partner become mobile and the twos fight is non existent and instead of fight we see the two make up the daughter of the older Clarkson then comes into the shot and we see the family together they accept her and all embrace together.
The offical release of the video "Because of You" was on October 3rd 2005 via 'Total Request Live'
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