Editing Everytime (section)

{{Short description|2004 single by Britney Spears}}
{{About|the song by Britney Spears||Every Time (disambiguation){{!}}Every Time}}
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{{Use American English|date=September 2020}}
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{{Infobox song
| name       = Everytime
| cover      = Everytime.png
| alt        = Image of Britney Spears. She is sitting in a giant purple flower wearing a dress in the same style. In the middle of the image, the words "Britney Spears" are written in green capital and small letters. Below them, the word "Everytime" is written in purple italics.
| border     = yes
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Britney Spears]]
| album      = [[In the Zone]]
| B-side     = Don't Hang Up
| released   = {{Start date|2004|05|10}}
| recorded   = November 2002
| studio     = [[Conway Recording Studios|Conway]] (Hollywood, California)
| genre      = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| length     = {{duration|m=3|s=50}}
| label      = [[Jive Records|Jive]]
| writer     =
* Britney Spears
* [[Annet Artani]]
| producer   = [[Guy Sigsworth]]
| prev_title = [[Toxic (song)|Toxic]]
| prev_year  = 2004
| next_title = [[Outrageous (song)|Outrageous]]
| next_year  = 2004
| misc       = {{External music video|{{YouTube|8YzabSdk7ZA|"Everytime"}}}}
}}
"'''Everytime'''" is a song by American singer [[Britney Spears]] from her fourth studio album, ''[[In the Zone]]'' (2003). It was released as the third [[Single (music)|single]] from ''In the Zone'' on May 10, 2004, by [[Jive Records]]. After her relationship with [[Justin Timberlake]] ended in 2002, Spears became friends with her background singer [[Annet Artani]]. They started writing songs together at Spears' house in [[Los Angeles]], and then traveled to [[Lombardy]], Italy, where they collaborated on "Everytime". Musically, it is a [[piano]]-driven [[Pop music|pop]] [[Sentimental ballad|ballad]], which lyrically pleas for forgiveness for inadvertently hurting a former lover. Spears composed the music herself and wrote the lyrics with Artani about a romantic breakup.

"Everytime" received universal acclaim from [[Music journalism|music critic]]s, who praised its lyrics, composition, and Spears' [[Breathy voice|breathy vocals]] and songwriting, deeming it amongst the highlights of ''In the Zone''. Commercially, it became a global success, topping the [[Record chart|chart]]s in five countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom, and reached the top-ten in 16 other markets. In the United States, the single peaked at number 15 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. Spears did a series of live performances, such as for TV shows ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on [[NBC]] and ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' in the United Kingdom. On her [[Concert tour|tour]]s, Spears also performed the song on piano in a flower-themed setting at [[The Onyx Hotel Tour]] (2004), while suspended on a giant umbrella at [[The Circus Starring Britney Spears]] (2009) and in an angel costume at [[Britney: Piece of Me]] (2013). The song has been [[Cover Song|covered]] by artists like [[Glen Hansard]], [[Ethel Cain]], [[Kelly Clarkson]], [[Lewis Capaldi]], [[Trisha Paytas]], and [[James Franco]] in the 2013 film ''[[Spring Breakers]]''.

Inspired by the cinematography of the 1995 film ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]'', the accompanying [[music video]] for "Everytime" was directed by [[David LaChapelle]]. It features Spears as a pop star fighting with a male companion ([[Stephen Dorff]]) as she is hounded by [[paparazzi]]. She starts to drown in her bathtub after bleeding from a head wound. In the hospital, doctors fail to resuscitate her, while simultaneously a child is born in the next room (implying she has been [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]]). The original concept had Spears kill herself from a drug overdose, but that part of the plot was removed after it received criticism from organizations such as [[Kidscape]], who perceived it as a glamorization of [[suicide]]. Critics took note of the video for its religious references to ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'', [[Kabbalah]] and [[stigmata]], as well as for foreshadowing Spears' own struggles with fame.