Something I Need about the video via their Twitter page, OneRepublic said: "The video for 'Something I Need' will hands down be the craziest video we've done. And funniest. And hopefully best. Time for a risk." The music video was released on October 7, 2013. In the video, a man is repeatedly attacked by a dog in slow motion, preventing him from asking his crush out. In December 2014, Ben Haenow, winner of the eleventh series of "The X Factor", released a cover version of "Something I Need" as his winner's single after he won. The song was released as a digital download
I Was a Fool to the piano. She was inspired to write a piano ballad after listening to Rihanna's 2006 single "Unfaithful": "I was listening to [it] and wanted to create a similar piano riff." She added: ""I was deliberately writing a song that I thought someone like Rihanna would want. I also wrote it thinking of her sort of character, someone who is in the media all the time and is probably not the person they're portrayed to be." She also wanted "I Was a Fool" to be "something really sad and kind of fucked, but something that everybody would relate to", in