Everybody Loves a Lover Columbia catalog number 41195, "Everybody Loves a Lover" first reached the "Billboard" magazine charts on July 21, 1958. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at number 6; on the Best Seller chart, at number 17; and on the Hot 100 composite chart, it reached number 14. The Doris Day version is noteworthy for the third verse, in which, through overdubbing, the first four lines of verse 2 are superimposed on the first four lines of verse 1, creating a counterpoint duet. The two segments end on the same word, "Pollyanna", sung in harmony. The song was Day's last big
21 Things I Want in a Lover than a holiday suitcase." Kimberly Reyes of "Time" panned its lyrics, claiming that they "could easily double as boy trouble letters sent to Seventeen [magazine]." Rob Mitchum of "Pitchfork Media" wrote that the lyrics about what she's looking for in a man is "a move that could come off as self-indulgent, but in a personality as luminescent as Ms. Morissette, is nothing short of entrancing." Jennifer Vineyard of "MTV News" called it a "textured Jagged [Little Pill]-esque tune," but noted that its lyrics contain "stream-of-consciousness." "21 Things I Want in a Lover" was released to radio and television as the