Songfacts®:

• This song was credited to the Australian film director Baz Luhrmann, although he is not actually on the recording. The vocals were by Australian voice-over artist Lee Perry.
• This samples Quindon Tarver's gospel remake of the Rozalla hit "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)," from the soundtrack to the 1996 Romeo & Juliet film, which was directed by Baz Luhrmann.
• The lyrics are from an essay called "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by columnist Mary Schmich. It first appeared in 1997 in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, although the article was originally wrongly credited as being a collegiate commencement speech delivered by author Kurt Vonnegut. In the book 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, Baz remembered, "I was working with my assistant, Anton Monsted and Josh Abrahams on a remix of 'Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)' when Ant showed me an email of these words that appeared to be Kurt's graduation speech. His simple observations and ideas seemed to provide a profoundly useful guide for getting through life. We wanted to record it but only had two days and didn't know how to get hold of Kurt. Ant went onto the Internet and discovered that a student had taken Mary's speech and linked it to Kurt's name in the style of a chain letter. To us it didn't matter who wrote it, it made sense and struck a chord with those who had read it, that we decided to record it."
• This song is played during the end credits of the 2000 film The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito. >>

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