It‘s My Life” is a song by Nigerian-Swedish recording artist Dr. Alban. 🇪🇺
Dr. Alban (born Alban Uzoma Nwapa). It was released in February 1992 in Sweden as the first single from his second studio album, One Love (1992).
Produced by Denniz PoP, who also co-wrote the song, it was a hit in many European countries. 🇪🇺
It’s My Life was a hit in most of the European countries where it was released, peaking at number one in Sweden, Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium and number two in the UK. In France, the song was marketed twice: first in 1992, then in 1993 because the song was used in a TV advert for Tampax tampons (as it was in the UK and other countries in Europe in 1992), thus giving the single a second career.
The song had enough airplay on US college radio stations to chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks in 1992. “It’s My Life” was re-released in 1994 in Australia, following the success of “Sing Hallelujah!”.
Dr. Alban stated that the song took five hours to record. In the 2017 book Stars of 90’s Dance Pop: 29 Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers by James Arena, he explained the new sound of the song: “‘It’s My Life’ and another hit off the second album, ‘Sing Hallelujah!’, had totally different sounds [compared to his 1990 debut single “Hello Afrika”], which I wanted to explore at the time. I left the ‘Hello Afrika’ sound and did ‘It’s My Life’, which had more of a pop, catchy style. Keeping things fresh was very natural for us.”
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Lyrics 🎼
Stop telling people how to run their business
It’s my life, take it or leave it
Set me free, what’s that crap papa-know-it-all?
I got my own life, you got your own life
Live your own life and set me free
Mind your business and leave my business
You know everything papa-know-it-all
Very little knowledge is dangerous
Stop bugging me, stop bothering me
Stop bugging me, stop fussing me
Stop fighting me, stop yelling me, it’s my life
It’s my life (it’s my life, my worries)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my problems)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my worries)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my problems)
It’s my life, do you understand?
I live the way I want to live
I make decisions day and night
Show me signs and good examples
Stop telling me how to run your business
Take a trip to east and west
You find that you don’t know anything
Every’s getting tired of you
Sometimes you have to look and listen
You can even learn from me
Little knowledge is dangerous, it’s my life
It’s my life (it’s my life, my worries)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my problems)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my worries)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my problems)
It’s my life, set me free
So you bed, so you lie
What you see is what you get
Listen to people and sort things out
Things I do I do them no more
Things I say I say them no more
Changes come once in life
Stop bugging me, stop bothering me
Stop bugging me, stop fussing me
Stop fighting me, stop yelling me
Stop telling me, stop seeing me, it’s my life
It’s my life (it’s my life, my worries)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my problems)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my worries)
It’s my life (it’s my life, my problems)
It’s my life (it’s my life)
It’s my life (it’s my life)
It’s my life (oh, oh, oh)
It’s my life
It’s my life (stop bugging me, stop bothering me)
It’s my life (stop fussing me, stop yelling at me)
It’s my life (it’s my life)
It’s my life (it’s my life)
It’s my life (stop bugging me, stop bothering me)
It’s my life (stop fussing me, stop yelling at me)
It’s my life (it’s my life)
It’s my life
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