Amaze Me
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| “Amaze Me” | |||||
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| Single by No Angels from the album Destiny | |||||
| A-side | "Teardrops" | ||||
| B-side | "Ain't Gonna Look the Other Way" | ||||
| Released | October 19, 2007 | ||||
| Format | CD single, ring tone, digital download | ||||
| Recorded | Sound Studio N, Cologne, Germany; January 2007 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 3:48 | ||||
| Label | Polydor/Universal | ||||
| Writer(s) | Karen Poole, Steve Mac | ||||
| Producer | Roland Spremberg, Boogieman | ||||
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"Amaze Me" is a pop ballad written by Steve Mac and Karen Poole for German pop band No Angels' fourth studio album, Destiny (2007). It was co-produced by Boogieman and Roland Spremberg and released as the album's third single on double A-side with the Womack & Womack cover "Teardrops" on October 19, 2007 (see 2007 in music). The song reached number 25 on the German Singles Chart, but failed to enter the charts elsewhere, eventually becoming one of the group's lowest-charting singles.
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[edit] Writing and recording
Commissioned by the band's A&R manager Nik Hafemann after their secret reunion in mid-2006,[1] the song was one of several exclusively-penned tracks for the No Angels' comeback album Destiny.[1] "Amaze Me" was one of the first tracks to be recorded by the group and among a total of seven songs considered for the album's lead single.[2] Although it finally lost in favour of "Goodbye to Yesterday," the band has described the ballad as one of their personal favourites on the CD. "We instantly fell in love with the song, because it has a very special atmosphere. It's carrying off, no matter where you are," Nadja Benaissa told RTL Television, while Lucy Diakovska added: "Each of us could easily build a relation [to it]. It's about a feeling, [that] everyone knows: You're absolutely amazed by someone, who is mesmerizing you with his charme and acts."[3] In an interview with NRJ Radio Energy Jessica Wahls called the song "soul- and heart-touching": "But it's not a slow song, it is pulsating."[3]
The quartet premiered the song during a special concert in the Radio Energy studios in Munich, Germany on March 5, 2007.[4] On March 29, a thirty-seconds preview of the song was made available on Musicload, and by April 6, 2007 a one-and-a-half-minute clip had leaked onto the internet via pop24, the band's label's promotional website.[4] Released on various editions, a dance music-influenced remix of the song, also produced by Boogieman, appeared on the both the "Amaze Me" edition of the CD single and the digital single.
[edit] Music video
The music video for "Amaze Me" was directed by Marcus Sternberg and filmed between August 20 and 22, 2007 in a film studio in Berlin, Germany.[5] Shot over twenty-two hours back-to-back with the video for "Teardrops," the final clip worldpremiered on September 21 at the end of German music network VIVA's show Neu.[6] However, it was not added to the network's current playlist until September 29, 2007.[5]
The group has declared the filming of the "mammoth shoot" as "extremely exhausting," referring to its extraordinary length and a delay of several hours, caused by various technical defects.[6] Lucy Diakovska has described the plotless clip as a "white, elegant, melancholic but positive [and ...] very simple video, riddled with many nice details and ideas."[6] Inspired by a concept developed by all four members and based on Sternberg's treatment, the music video was eventually conceived as a stylistic counterpart to "Teardrops."[6]
[edit] Music charts
[edit] Worldwide
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles [7] | 88 |
| Euro 200 Chart [8] | 140 |
| German Radio Chart [9] | 61 |
| German Singles Chart [10] | 25 |
[edit] Formats and tracklistings
These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Amaze Me."
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[edit] Notes
- ^ a b No Angels @ Viva Live. Youtube. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ "Himmlisch!". BILD am Sonntag. Retrieved on 2007-04-22
- ^ a b "Amaze Me". RTL.de. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
- ^ a b "Was wir die nächste Single der No Angels?". NoAngels-Music. Retrieved on 2007-04-22.
- ^ a b "Neue Single!!". Sandy.tv. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
- ^ a b c d "Fallende Engel". RTLakutell.de. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
- ^ European Hot 100. Billboard.biz. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
- ^ Euro Top 200. APC-Chart. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
- ^ German Radio Chart. OLJO. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
- ^ "Plain White T's" bleiben an der Spitze der Single-Charts. URL Base. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
[edit] External links
- "Amaze Me" – watch the music video at YouTube.
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