Top Of The World - The Dixie Chicks - Cover

Here we have Stephanie Sexton performing The Dixie Chick's classic "Top Of The World" for her graduating recital at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) Check out loads more videos from our recent recitals on our channel. Plus celebrity performances, Pro Tools tutorials, Top 5's, and other great Australian Music Vids. No Copyright Infringement intended AIM - Leading School For Today's Music Industry Check out our Website, http://www.aim.edu.au/ Our Facebook Page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Australia/Australian-Institute-of-Music/... Our Video Page, http://www.aim.edu.au/video/ Our Twitter, http://twitter.com/AIMsydney My Space, http://www.myspace.com/australianinstituteofmusic You Tube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/AimTvSydney Check out our App in the ITunes Store : http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/australian-institute-music/id385491415?mt=8# The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) is more than just a music school! Here on YouTube and the AIMtv channel, you'll find a whole bunch of cool videos showing you what we do here at AIM. From music videos to pro tools tutorials, micro-lectures, live performances, events, news, master classes, promotions, studio sessions and course related videos, there's plenty to watch, and always something new coming up. AIMtv is our in-house filming production service, a creative platform for capturing video content from students & staff. To study music at AIM is all about having a fun, professional, academic experience, that helps set you up for a diverse lifelong career in the music industry, from performing to studio work, teaching, publishing, entertainment management, music business and a whole lot more, all connected as part of the AIM learning experience. The best thing you can from here do is to come along to an OPEN Day or check out our website at http://www.aim.edu.au "Top of the World" is a contemporary folk-country song written by Patty Griffin and most known as recorded and performed in Grammy Award-winning fashion by the Dixie Chicks. Griffin wrote and recorded "Top of the World" for her would-be 2000 album Silver Bell. But a dispute with her label A&M Records caused the album to go unreleased and Griffin to be dropped, although copies of Silver Bell circulated and increased Griffin's reputation as a songwriter within the music industry. The Dixie Chicks, who had already treated other Griffin songs and had toured with Griffin on their 2000 Fly Tour, recorded "Top of the World" as the concluding track on their 2002 album Home. Dixie Chick Emily Robison said of "Top of the World" that it was "biggest departure on the album, but I'm so glad that we did it because I think it shows a whole other dimension."During their 2002 concert film An Evening with the Dixie Chicks, Maines attempted to explain the song's startingly unusual perspective: It is written from the point of view of a man who has passed on, and he's sort of looking down wishing that he had been a different person, and having a lot of regrets and wishing he hadn't had the negative effect on the people in his life and err... I don't know what I just said... Author Chris Willman wrote that this was "a song that could send a chill down even a seasoned spine after repeat listens."The New York Times said that "Top of the World" was an example of the Dixie Chicks turning to Griffin for their most ambitious material that at the same time led to the Chicks' commercial and critical success. "Top of the World" was released as a single in mid-2003, together with a music video, but failed to chart. At six minutes the song was likely too long for radio, but by now the infamous controversy regarding Maines' criticism of U.S. President George W. Bush had broken out,[5] and the Chicks had become a country radio anathema. Maines would remark of the video, "We haven't been banned from television yet."Directed by Sophie Muller and filmed in London, it portrayed the three Chicks as three women in different stages of the protagonist's life. The story started with a boy growing up with his single mother (Emily Robison), who frequently abused and neglected him. As a result, he would become frustrated with his life and in turn mutilate inanimate objects such as a rag doll. Later, the boy grows up as a bitter person and never grows close to his daughter and wife (Martie Maguire). When he became old, and his daughter (Natalie Maines) grows up, she loves and takes care of him like her mother did when she was little. The old man dies feeling regretful about his life, but the cycle is broken when Natalie raises a good family in her generation and loves her family. It was premiered on VH1 on September 22, 2003, and it would later be nominated for MVPA Awards in the Adult Contemporary Video and Director of the Year categories.

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