My Happy Ending

"My Happy Ending"
Single by Avril Lavigne from the album Under My Skin
B-side	"Take It"
Released	August 7, 2004[specify]
Format	CD single
Recorded	in the UK
Genre	Pop rock
Length	4:02
Label	Arista
Writer	Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker
Producer	Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Avril Lavigne Canada singles chronology
"Take Me Away" (2004)	"My Happy Ending" (2004)	"Nobody's Home" (2004)
Avril Lavigne non-Canada singles chronology
"Don't Tell Me" (2004)	"My Happy Ending" (2004)	"Nobody's Home" (2004)

"My Happy Ending" is a song written and produced by Avril Lavigne and Butch Walker for Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin (2004). It was released as the album's second internationally released single in 2004 (see 2004 in music) and became Lavigne's third most successful single in the United States and Australia, reaching the top ten in both countries. In those countries, it peaked higher than "Don't Tell Me", the album's first single. In the United Kingdom, it reached the top five, and in the United States, it peaked at number nine. The RIAA certified "My Happy Ending" platinum in January 2005, making it Lavigne's second platinum single after "Complicated" (2002). The song contains the word shit, which generated a small amount of controversy. This song was once very popular on Radio Disney, and because Disney is targeted toward children, the word shit was replaced by stuff, especially in the radio edit of the song.

In visual media

The "My Happy Ending" music video, directed by Meiert Avis, features Lavigne in a cinema auditorium watching the times when she and her boyfriend were together. In one part of the video, Lavigne's character understands the reason why her boyfriend wants her and she gets mad at him. She watches the memories they had together and at the end she doesn't like him.

Lavigne in the theater, watching her memories.

The song was used in a season five episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Mea Culpa" (November 25, 2004), and in a season four episode of Smallville, "Facade" (October 6 2004).^[1]

Singles and formats

UK CD single 1

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version)
2. "Take It" (previously unreleased)

UK CD single 2

1. "My Happy Ending"
2. "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
3. "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
4. "My Happy Ending" (music video)

UK CD promo

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version) [explicit]
2. "My Happy Ending" (radio edit) [clean]

Germany, Italy and Taiwan CD single

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version)
2. "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
3. "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
4. "Take It" (previously unreleased)
5. "My Happy Ending" (music video)

Australia CD single

1. "My Happy Ending" (album version)
2. "My Happy Ending" (live acoustic version)
3. "Take Me Away" (live acoustic version)
4. "Take It" (previously unreleased)

Charts

References