"When I Think About Angels" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian

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artist

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. It was released in March 2001 as the second single from O'Neal's ''

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'' album. The song reached Number One on the ''

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'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now

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) charts. It also peaked at #35 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song was written by O'Neal,

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and Sonny Tillis.

Content

The narrator confesses that everything reminds her of her significant other.

Music video

The music video was directed by

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and premiered in mid-2001. It begins in a city, where the camera does a full 360 before landing on O'Neal in a cafe sitting at a table with a cup of coffee. A butterfly lands on the cup, and the song begins. During the first chorus, the scene switches to her singing amidst a starry night, then laying on the grass singing accompanied by many butterflies. The next scene shows her singing in a village, then in the same town from the beginning of the video in the pouring rain. These scenes switch back and forth for the remainder of the video, and at the end O'Neal is back in the cafe, possibly having dreamt the whole thing. The butterfly on her coffee cup leaves, and the camera does another 360 back into the city, ending the video, the final shot of the video being an exact upside down image of the opening shot.

Chart performance

"When I Think About Angels" debuted at number 45 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of March 31, 2001. Having peaked at number 1 on the chart dated for August 4, 2001, O'Neal became the first female country singer to send her first two singles to number 1 since

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did so in 1996–1997.

Year-end charts

References

{{Jamie O'Neal 2001 singles 2000 songs Jamie O'Neal songs Music videos directed by Trey Fanjoy Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall Songs written by Roxie Dean Mercury Records singles Songs written by Jamie O'Neal