"Love How It Hurts" is a single by the English indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

 band

Band (music)

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 Scouting for Girls

Scouting for Girls

Scouting for Girls are a Brit and Ivor Novello nominated band from London, formed in 2005 by Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Peter Ellard. Stride and Ellard met in the Cub Scouts and Churchouse met Stride on their first day at school. They have sold over 1.2 million albums and over 1.5 million...

 , The song is released off the re-release of their album, "Everybody Wants to Be on TV

Everybody Wants to Be on TV

Everybody Wants to Be on TV is the second studio album by the English pop band Scouting for Girls. It was released on 12 April 2010 through Epic. The first single on the album debuted on the Scott Mills BBC Radio 1 show on 15 January 2010. The album artwork was released on January 19, 2010...

". The song was released as a digital download

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 on 10 July 2011. It debuted on the UK Top 40 singles chart at Number 17 on 17th July 2011.

Track listing

Music video

The official music video to accompany the single "Love How It Hurts" was released on the band's website and YouTube on 3 September 2010. The music video shows a young geeky boy falling in love with a pretty girl as they soon started to become friends a cool bad boy comes over and takes the girl away. The geeky boy tried to give her a tape holding 'Love How It Hurts' on it. Yet again the cool boy interrupts and breaks it apart. Next they have all grown up and he is still in love with her. The geeky boy runs to meet her, intercut with scenes of the girl and geeky boy. He tries to marry her and (yet again) the cool boy interrupts, throws the ring off a nearby cliff and tries to walk off with the girl again. The music video ends when the girl stops walking and looks back at him.

The band do not feature in the video, a first for them. Roy Stride said this was due to them touring Germany and that: "The record label just decided to make it without us!".
The band made two 'Alternative Endings' to the video, and fans were to pick their favourite. It features bassist Greg as the geeky boy and leader singer Roy as the bad boy fighting over the girl, played by drummer Pete.
It was filmed at a service station on their way back from a gig and according to their Twitter, "Total Budget £9.36".

Personnel

Performance credits

• Vocals: Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse
• Bass
  Bass guitar
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  : Greg Churchouse
• Percussion: Pete Ellard
• Piano
  Piano
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  : Roy Stride
• Guitar
  Guitar
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  : Roy Stride

Technical credits

• Production
  Record producer
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  : Andy Green

Charts

The song entered the UK Singles Chart

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 at 17 and spent 3 weeks inside the top 40. > >

Chart (2011)	Peak position
UK Download (The Official Charts Company)	17

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
United Kingdom	10 July 2011	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....