I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear skinned smiles Who married young and then retired.

At Seventeen" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian from her seventh studio album Between the Lines. Columbia released it in August 1975 as the album's second single. Ian wrote the lyrics based on a The New York Times article with a samba instrumental, and Brooks Arthur produced the final version. A soft rock ballad, the song is about a social outcast in high school. Critics have regarded "At Seventeen" as a type of anthem

Janis Ian. Produced by Brooks Arthur. Album Between the Lines. I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles Who married young and then retired. The valentines I never knew The Friday night charades of youth Were spent on one more beautiful At seventeen I learned the truth. And those of us with ravaged faces Lacking in the social graces Desperately remained at home Inventing lovers on the phone  . To me, ‘17’ offers hope. It offers hope that there is a world out there of people who understand. At Seventeen" Track Info. Written By Janis Ian. Release Date August 1, 1975.

17 Ans" by Claude François is a cover of Janis Ian's "At Seventeen". Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. Another French version has been performed by Mireille Mathieu (à dix-sept ans) with different lyrics.

Janis Ian, then 22, wrote "At Seventeen" in 1973 at her mother's house over the course of three months. In her autobiography Society's Child, Ian says that the song was inspired by a newspaper article about a former teenage debutante who learned the hard way that being popular did not solve all her problems. The article included the quote, "I learned the truth at eighteen"; Ian found that the word "seventeen" worked better than "eighteen" when she tried to put this lyric with the bossa nova-style melody she had been composing on guitar. French Canadian Marie-Denise Pelletier coverered the French version "17 ans" on album Survivre (1989). At17, a Hong Kong music group, is named after the song. The girl-duo also covered the song in Cantonese on their first album Meow Meow Meow in 2002.

Janis Ian (b. 1951) is a . songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Her singing career was at its height in the 1960s and 1970s, and she has continued recording into the twenty-first century. In 1975 Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".

by Janis Ian. Album: Between The Lines (1975). Charted: 3. Get the Sheet Music License This Song It reached {for 2 weeks} on August 3rd, 1975 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.

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