We Can Work It Out (Sweetbox song)
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"We Can Work It Out" is the first hit single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from pop music project Sweetbox
Sweetbox
Sweetbox is a Los Angeles based pop music project formed in 1995 by executive producer Heiko Schmidt and music producer Roberto "Geo" Rosan.Throughout the years Sweetbox has had several leading women including Kimberly Kearney, Dacia Bridges, Tina Harris, Jade Villalon and most recently and...

 on the album The Next Generation. It is the first song from the project to feature Jamie Pineda
Jamie Pineda
Jamie Pineda, is an American pop singer-songwriter and former model. In late 2007, Jamie signed on to be the front woman of the international pop music project Sweetbox.-Early life:...

 as frontwoman and Derek Bramble as producer. Georgie Dennis, Tom Barnes, Gavin Jones, Ben Kohn and Peter Kelleher co-wrote the song with Jamie.

"We Can Work It Out" samples The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season...

 by Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

, continuing the projects theme of fusing pop beats and classical music.

The song had somewhat high success in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It reached #4 on iTunes
ITunes
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 Pop Charts in Japan and even reached the country's Billboard Hot 100 at #27.

In Korea, the song was even more successful hitting #1 on 6 major charts including Bugs and Mnet, while also reaching top 10 positions on other charts like Cyworld, Soribada and Melon. After the creation of the GAON charts, which would become Korea's official chart, the song debuted at #115 and only peaked at that number on the Overall Digital Comprehensive Chart. On the International Digital Comprehensive Chart, the song debuted and peaked at #26.

Music video

The music video was directed by Martin Häusler and Martin Linss and was shot in Malibu, California. The concept of the video is that as Jamie is driving along, she notices the struggles people are enduring including that of a man and his daughter, a struggling musician and a young Japanese woman who is portrayed by model Sachi Suzuki. As she notices the struggles, she picks up each person and continues driving along. Throughout the video, Jamie is shown singing and walking along a beach.
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