Takin' Back What's Mine was the third single released by Leah Haywood

Leah Haywood

Leah Haywood is an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter and producer. Born in New Zealand, she grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and recorded a top 40 album, Leah, released in 2001 on Epic Records, which contained her Top 10 single, "We Think It's Love". Two more Top 40 hits followed with...

 from "Leah"

Leah (album)

"Leah" is the debut and only album ever released by Leah Haywood in Australia. Originally, the album was meant to be titled off one of the album tracks called "My Own Thing" but was changed closer to the release date. One of the tracks on the album titled "One Word" was featured on the second...

 in 2001. Unlike her first two singles, this song takes on a much more angry and dramatic tone where it deals about a girl reclaiming everything she physically owns after breaking up with her boyfriend. The single took a departure from her previous two where her image was moulded to be more "Britney-esque" by singing more angsty pop songs with a touch of rock. It was released nearly 6 months after her second single, "Crazy

Crazy (Leah Haywood song)

"Crazy" was the second single released off Leah Haywood's debut album Leah during the third quarter of 2000 in Australia. The song is co-written by Leah and A. Carlsson where it talks about a person falling for someone driving them "crazy"...

", had first charted while she was still writing and recording for her debut album. The song has been featured a few times in the Australian soap drama Neighbours

Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...

 just like her debut single "We Think It's Love

We Think It's Love

"We Think It's Love" is a song by Leah Haywood, released as her debut single in early 2000. It is Leah's biggest hit off her debut album "Leah" staying in the Australian ARIA Top 50 singles chart for nearly up to five months. It was later covered by Swedish Idol contestant Nathalie Schmeikal...

" and is also one of the tracks featured on the CD portion of Neighbours: The Music.

The single debuted and peaked at #18 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. It fared slightly better than her previous single did by becoming a top 20 hit and staying in the top 50 for 8 weeks. A non-album track "Anytime" (co-written by Sydney Music Producer Barbara Griffin & Leah) was included on the single in addition to an alternate recording of an acoustic version of "We Think It's Love

We Think It's Love

"We Think It's Love" is a song by Leah Haywood, released as her debut single in early 2000. It is Leah's biggest hit off her debut album "Leah" staying in the Australian ARIA Top 50 singles chart for nearly up to five months. It was later covered by Swedish Idol contestant Nathalie Schmeikal...

". The single was also part of the Sony Hitz music campaign containing a bonus sticker sheet featuring Leah and other artists on the label.

Music video

The music video for Takin' Back What's Mine was directed by Mark Hartley (who had also directed the music video for her second single Crazy) featuring a girl dressed in black and wearing a black mask entering her ex-boyfriend's house to steal his belongings. Leah is also featured throughout the video standing on the stairs wearing a black sleeveless top and navy blue jeans and alternating with a white top when she sings on the balcony and on top of the stairs. She is also accompanied with four female dancers dressed in black catsuits and a mask similar to the main girl in the story. Towards the end of the video, there are shots the girl taking some of the items sung in the song such as "the goldfish" and "the dog" before she gets in a car and drives off with all of the stolen items.

There are two edits to this music video, a censored version and an uncensored version. The censored version used panning shots of Leah on top of the stairs during the bridge of the song while the uncensored version showed footages of the girl in the story beating up her ex-boyfriend with karate moves and also spoofing a shot of the matrix kick. Due to the violent nature of this scene, Video Hits

Video Hits (Australian TV series)

Video Hits was an Australian music video program that first aired on 15 February 1987. From 7 May 2011 it broadcasted on Network Ten for two hours each Saturday and Sunday morning: 10am – 12pm on Saturdays and 8am – 10am on Sundays. Video Hits was the world's second longest running music show...

 would always air the censored version because of its family friendly time slot while rage

Rage (TV program)

Rage is a popular all-night Australian music video program broadcast on ABC1 on Friday nights, Saturday mornings and Saturday nights. It was first screened on the weekend of Friday, 17 April 1987. With Soul Train no longer being produced, it is the oldest music television program currently still...

 always aired the uncensored version.

Track listing

1. Takin' Back What's Mine (3:41)

2. Anytime (3:59)

3. We Think It's Love (Acoustic) (3:18) this version is slightly different from the one on the "Crazy

Crazy (Leah Haywood song)

"Crazy" was the second single released off Leah Haywood's debut album Leah during the third quarter of 2000 in Australia. The song is co-written by Leah and A. Carlsson where it talks about a person falling for someone driving them "crazy"...

" single

Charts

Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08
Position	18	19	26	30	29	42	35	40