Instead (Madeleine Peyroux song)

"Instead"
Single by Madeleine Peyroux
from the album Bare Bones
Released	2009
Recorded	2008
Genre	Jazz
Length	5:13
Label	Rounder
Songwriter(s)	Madeleine Peyroux, Julian Coryell
Producer(s)	Larry Klein
Madeleine Peyroux singles chronology
"You Can't do Me" (2009) "Instead" (2009)

"Instead" is the opening track of Madeleine Peyroux's album Bare Bones. It was a retro-feeling and charted on the Japanese 100 Singles.^[1] According to Peyroux, the song is a reminder of how we should enjoy life and the things we have. Reportedly, she wrote it in a "dark point" of her life.^[2] To promote the song, it was released as a video of a live performance.

References

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2. "Singing Her Own Song". Wall Street Journal. 6 February 2009.