Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

Infobox Single
Name = Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)


Artist = Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor
from Album =
B-side =
Released = flagicon|UK August 14, 2000
Format = 12-inch single, CD single
Recorded = 2000
Genre = House
Dance
Length =
Label = Positiva Records
Writer = Cristiano Spiller Sophie Ellis-Bextor Rob Davis
Producer = Cristiano Spiller Boris Dlugosch
Certification = 2× Platinum (140,000+) (Australia) Gold (400,000+) (UK)
Chart position = * #1 (United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
* #13 (Bavarian Singles)
* #14 (German Singles)
| Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Spiller
Type = singles
Last single = "Mighty Miami EP"
(2000)
This single = "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" (2000)
Next single = "Cry Baby"
(2002)
Extra chronology
Artist = Sophie Ellis Bextor
Type = singles
Last single =
This single = "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" (2000)
Next single = "Take Me Home" (2001)
Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Background = khaki


Lower caption = French CD single cover

"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" is a single by Spiller (featuring vocals by Sophie Ellis-Bextor) and released in 2000 by Positiva Records. It went to number 1 on the UK, New Zealand, Ireland Dance & Australian charts and #3 on the American Hot Dance/Club Play charts.

ong information

The track was produced by Italian DJ and producer Cristiano Spiller in 1999 as an instrumental, and was included in the "Mighty Miami" EP. It is mainly built upon samples from "Love Is You", a disco song originally performed by Carol Williams.

In order to make the track more palatable for airplay, as the instrumental is somewhat repetitive, Positiva asked British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, formerly with indie rock band theaudience, to provide lyrics and vocals for the song. Before recording, the lyric was partly reworked by Rob Davis, who replaced Ellis-Bextor's proposed hook "And so it goes..." with the line "If this ain't love...", thereby providing the song with its subtitle. Boris Dlugosch produced the vocal portions added to the track. Sharon Scott is the back-up vocalist. Sarah Cracknell was first choice for the vocals.

The track has been remixed by Boris Dlugosch and Michi Lange (BMR), Todd Terry, Solar, Ramon "Ray Roc" Checo and Ernest St. Laurent.

According to technology journalist Steven Levy, and the BBC's "TOTP2 Goes Disco!" [BBC – [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=today&service_id=4223&filename=20070721/20070721_2015_4224_18236_90 "TOTP2 Goes Disco!"] ] this was the first song ever to issue from an iPod, specifically from a prototype unit in August 2001.

In the UK, this single was first released in the same week as "Out of Your Mind", Victoria Beckham's first song since the break up of her group, the Spice Girls. "Out of Your Mind" held the midweek number one in the UK singles chart until Saturday, when "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" overtook it in sales; it was hyped by the media as a personal battle between the two artists. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/886316.stm Spiller star slams Posh campaign] ] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/888516.stm Posh suffers chart failure] ]

Versions

#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Radio Edit)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Spillers Extended Vocal Mix)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Original Version)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Ernest St. Laurent Rosetrack Remix)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Ernest St. Laurent Spicy Blackbird Remix)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Solar's Jet Groove Dub Mix)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Todd Terry's In House Mix)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (Ray Roc's Trackworks Remix)"
#"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (BMR's Club Cut)"

Music video

The video for the song shows Spiller and Sophie missing each other repeatedly in Bangkok. Spiller signs autographs and generally finds his height makes life there difficult; Sophie singing wistfully at various tables in bars and taking a Tuk-tuk ride (while Spiller just about fits into a taxicab).

References


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