Say, for instance, those days when life gets in the way and you don’t have the time available to devote to your normal workout. “People may opt out completely if they cannot meet that ‘requirement.’”īy saying “10 minutes is enough,” you open up more opportunities to get moving. “When we set the threshold at 30, 60, 90 minutes of movement, it can be overwhelming,” Lauren Leavell, a NASM-certified personal trainer and certified barre instructor in Philadelphia, tells SELF. A sustainable practice is easier to keep up long-term. I’d consider my test run a total win, especially at a time when looking forward to anything is an impossible task of its own. Now it’s my time, a space for me to connect with my body, give it what it needs without asking for anything more, and feel ready for the day ahead. It’s no longer a battle between me and my schedule, trying to block out a huge chunk of time to make enough minutes in the day for a circuit I wasn’t that into anyway. During this experiment (three months and counting!), I have now come to cherish and look forward to those 10 minutes in the morning. So simple it only took 10 minutes to come together.įor more Grammy news, check out the MTV News Grammy Archive.It’s a huge shift from how I felt before. It's a simple song, and that usually helps." "It came out at the end of the real aggro rap-rock thing, so maybe people were ready for a change, back to a good melody. "I knew it would be a hit, but the level of hit certainly surprised me," he said. Staub also gives credit to the timing of the release. "If they're not faking it, it goes a long way." "If the song is convincing, then it comes off that way," he said. The job was easy, Staub added, because of the honesty in the recording. "I wanted it to make a statement," he said. Staub modeled his mix of "How You Remind Me" after Lifehouse's "Hanging by a Moment," the most played song of 2001. "I'm mixing Michelle Branch right now and she heard that song on the radio and that's the reason I got that call," Staub said. Producer Rick Parashar, who has worked with Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam, certainly deserves some credit, while mixer Randy Staub (Metallica, P.O.D.) has also been praised for his work. Sometimes you just magically hit it."Īlong with the melody, "How You Remind Me" just sounds good, with Kroeger's voice resonating clearly over crisp guitar licks and a smooth but meaty rhythm section. If you knew the formula, you'd write every song like that. "My dad, a country music fan, told me, 'I didn't get it the first time, but I got it the second.' That's what's really cool. "It's one of those melodies that just rings in your head," Peake said. "How You Remind Me" also happens to be armed with more than just memorable lyrics. "For some reason, women like bashing the person I sing about in the song," Kroeger said. People were applying the song to their own relationships, but at the same time, acknowledging Kroeger's personal story. The song struck a chord with a wide array of listeners, even reaching adult contemporary and pop radio formats. If you can do it well, you can appeal to anybody." Damn near 99 or 100 percent of the people on the planet can relate to that. "The last time we played it, Chad said, 'This is for all of your sh-y ex-girlfriends,' and you can pretty much say 'sh-y ex-boyfriends' in the same breath. "It's very sarcastic," guitarist Ryan Peake said at the time of the album's release. Kroeger penned the break-up anthem about a specific person - his ex-girlfriend Jodi - but wrote it with ambiguous verses like, "It's not like you to say sorry/ I was waiting on a different story/ This time I'm mistaken/ For handing you/ A heart worth breaking." In fact, that may have been the most productive 10 minutes in rock history, considering the song became the most played of 2002 (even though it was released in September of 2001) and will compete for the Record of the Year Grammy at Sunday's ceremony. Every part of that song was thought-out, and a lot of effort was put into it. You're like, 'OK, this is good - this is really good.' You can tell. "You start arranging it, and you get that in your stomach. "I could tell when I brought the song to the band ," Kroeger said. Ten minutes later, the Canadian rockers finished "How You Remind Me" and pretty much decided it would be the first single. A week before Nickelback were to enter the studio to record their third album, frontman Chad Kroeger played the rest of the band the skeleton of a song he was writing as a possible last-minute addition.
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