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" |
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| Released | October 19, 2007 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single, ring tone, digital download |
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| Recorded | January 2007, Sound Studio N (Cologne, Germany) |
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| 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 performed by German pop group No Angels. It was written by British songwriters Steve Mac and Karen Poole, and produced by Boogieman and Roland Spremberg for the band's fourth studio album Destiny (2007).
The song was 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) in German-speaking Europe. The song reached number 25 on the German Singles Chart,[1] but failed to enter the national charts elsewhere, eventually becoming one of the group's lowest-charting singles. Slightly more successful than its predecessor "Maybe" however, it managed to reach the composite Billboard Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart.[2]
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[edit] Writing and recording
The song was one of several exclusively-penned tracks for the No Angels' comeback album Destiny.[3] the song was one of the first tracks to be recorded by the group and among a total of seven candidates considered for the album's lead single.[4] Although it lost in favour of "Goodbye to Yesterday," the band members have described the ballad as one of their personal favourites on the album. "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,[5] with Lucy Diakovska adding: "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."[5] 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."[6]
The quartet premiered the song during a special concert in the Radio Energy studios in Munich, Germany on March 5, 2007.[7] 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.[7] 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.[8]
[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.[9] 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.[10] However, it was not added to the network's current playlist until September 29, 2007.[9]
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.[10] 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."[10] 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."[10]
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| European Hot 100 Singles[11] | 88 |
| Germany (Media Control AG)[12] | 25 |
[edit] Formats and tracklistings
These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Amaze Me."
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[edit] References
- ^ "Plain White T's" bleiben an der Spitze der Single-Charts". URL Base. Archived from the original on 2007-11-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20071118083122/http://www.urlbase.de/include.php?path=content/articles.php&contentid=24613. Retrieved 2007-11-01.
- ^ "European Hot 100". Billboard.biz. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/search/detailed_chart_display.jsp?g=s&cd=Nov-10-2007&f=European%20Hot%20100%20Singles&model.chartId=3090425. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ "No Angels @ Viva Live". YouTube. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HGqOt22N7R0. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
- ^ "Himmlisch!". BILD am Sonntag. Retrieved on 2007-04-22.
- ^ a b "Amaze Me". RTL.de. http://www.rtl.de/tools/count/xdot/count.php?id=223708&artikelid=6667164&dst=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtl.de%2Fmusik%2Fmusik_940831.php%3Fset_id%3D8750. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ "Popband «No Angels» wieder vereint". Limmatta Online. http://www.limmattalonline.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=12&rub=100004702&nrub=0&sda=1&Artikel_ID=101478473jhtml. Retrieved 2007-02-01.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Was wir die nächste Single der No Angels?". NoAngels-Music. http://www.noangels-music.de/ecard_destiny/noangels_ecard.php. Retrieved 2007-04-22.
- ^ "Amaze Me/Teardrops - Digital Version" (in German). Musicload. http://www.musicload.de/album/2887187_2/no-angels/amaze-meteardrops/item.html. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ^ a b "Neue Single!!". Sandy.tv. http://sandy.tv/fs_browser_neu.html. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
- ^ a b c d "Fallende Engel". RTLakutell.de. http://www.rtl.de/news/rtl_aktuell_videoplayer.php?article=12586. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
- ^ "No Angels Album & Song Chart History" European Hot 100 for No Angels. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche – musicline.de" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
[edit] External links
- NoAngels-Music.de — official site
- "Amaze Me" music video on YouTube
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