412:, at a booth, where Barnes proceeds to tell everyone about her recent affairs. As she does, brief scenes of her working in an office are shown, implying that she met her love interest at work. Eventually, Barnes begins dancing on her seat, to the embarrassment of her colleagues. Interspersed throughout the video are clips of the band performing with their backup dancers in either a colorful room or a grey warehouse. The handclaps used during these interims are not muted.
336:, which was released two weeks later. Music website Can't Stop the Pop noted that releasing the single in this manner was a risky manoeuvre, citing the song's dissimilarity with other Scooch tracks and the sizeable impact it had to make to successfully benefit the album, which stalled at number 41 on the
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Can't Stop the Pop wrote that "For Sure" is a "brilliant" song, calling it a good summer track and highlighting its "frantic" production despite referring to it as a confusing shift in musical direction for the group, especially with Barnes on lead vocals. Reviewing the parent album, Pop Rescue
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and sporadically backed up by brass instruments. Lyrically, the song uses a "days of the week" motif, with the narrator describing how she and her love interest interact from Monday to
Saturday during the verses. For the chorus, she proclaims her love for her crush, punctuated by the track's
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A music video was made to promote the song. It commences with Powers and Barnes in a restaurant lavatory, where they introduce the song's theme by discussing how Barnes has spent her week. Once the song begins, they exit the restroom and meet up with their male bandmates, David
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version of the former track. The first UK CD replaces the karaoke version with a home movie from Scooch while the second CD, which was issued in
Australia on 18 September 2000, contains various remixes of the song plus its video and a photo gallery.
368:, where it debuted and peaked at number 51 on the issue of 12 August 2000. "For Sure" was the last single Scooch released before their initial split, but it would not be their final charting song in the UK.
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731:"New Releases – For Week Starting July 24, 2000: Singles".
348:. The cassette contains the radio edit of "For Sure" plus
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949:"Eurochart Hot 100 Singles".
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328:Release and chart performance
1068:Songs written by Matt Aitken
836:. Accolade. 2000. CDACS 005.
752:. 5 August 2000. p. 22.
474:"For Sure" (karaoke version)
308:"ba-dup-bup-baya-ba-da-bup"
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966:"Reviews: Single Reviews".
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432:Exclusive Scooch home movie
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