Amaze Me

Amaze Me

Infobox Single |
Name = Amaze Me
Artist = No Angels
from Album = Destiny


Released = October 19, 2007
A-side = "Teardrops"
B-side = "Ain't Gonna Look the
Other Way"
Format = CD single, ring tone,
digital download
Writer = Karen Poole, Steve Mac
Producer = Roland Spremberg, Boogieman
Recorded = January 2007, Sound Studio N
(Cologne, Germany
Genre = Pop, ballad
Length = 3:48
Label = Polydor/Universal
Last single = "Maybe"
(2007)
This single = "Amaze Me"/
"Teardrops"
(2007)
Next single = "Disappear"
(2008)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = Studio


Lower caption = Teardrops edition"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.

Writing and recording

Commissioned by the band's A&R manager Nik Hafemann after their secret reunion in mid-2006,cite web | title=No Angels @ "Viva Live"| work=Youtube| url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=HGqOt22N7R0| accessdate=2007-02-01] the song was one of several exclusively-penned tracks for the No Angels' comeback album "Destiny".cite web | title=No Angels @ "Viva Live"| work=Youtube| url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=HGqOt22N7R0| accessdate=2007-02-01] "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. ["Himmlisch!". "BILD am Sonntag". Retrieved on 2007-04-22] 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."cite web | title="Amaze Me"| work=RTL.de| url=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| accessdate=2007-12-01] 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."cite web | title="Popband «No Angels» wieder vereint"| work=Limmatta Online| url=http://www.limmattalonline.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=12&rub=100004702&nrub=0&sda=1&Artikel_ID=101478473jhtml | accessdate=2007-02-01]

The quartet premiered the song during a special concert in the Radio Energy studios in Munich, Germany on March 5, 2007.cite web|title="Was wir die nächste Single der No Angels?"|work=NoAngels-Music|url=http://www.noangels-music.de/ecard_destiny/noangels_ecard.php|accessdate=2007-04-22] 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.cite web|title="Was wir die nächste Single der No Angels?"|work=NoAngels-Music|url=http://www.noangels-music.de/ecard_destiny/noangels_ecard.php|accessdate=2007-04-22] 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.

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.cite web|title="Neue Single!!"|work=Sandy.tv|url=http://sandy.tv/fs_browser_neu.html|accessdate=2007-08-19] 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".cite web|title="Fallende Engel"|work=RTLakutell.de|url=http://www.rtl.de/news/rtl_aktuell_videoplayer.php?article=12586|accessdate=2007-08-22] However, it was not added to the network's current playlist until September 29, 2007.cite web|title="Neue Single!!"|work=Sandy.tv|url=http://sandy.tv/fs_browser_neu.html|accessdate=2007-08-19]

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.cite web|title=Interview|work=ZDF Mediathek|url=http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/278438?inPopup=true|accessdate=2007-10-01] 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."cite web|title=Interview|work=ZDF Mediathek|url=http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/278438?inPopup=true|accessdate=2007-10-01] 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."cite web|title=Interview|work=ZDF Mediathek|url=http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/278438?inPopup=true|accessdate=2007-10-01]

Music charts

Worldwide

Formats and tracklistings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Amaze Me."
* CD single ("Amaze Me" edition)
# "Amaze Me" (album version) - 3:47
# "Teardrops" (single version) - 3:13
# "Ain't Gonna Look the Other Way" - 3:50
# "Amaze Me" (remix) - 3:47
# "Amaze Me" (instrumental) 3:47
# "Amaze Me" (video)

* Digital single
# "Amaze Me" (album version) - 3:47
# "Teardrops" (single version) - 3:13
# "Ain't Gonna Look the Other Way" - 3:50
# "Amaze Me" (remix) - 3:47
# "Amaze Me" (instrumental) 3:47
# "Teardrops" (Mozart&Friends club mix) - 3:45
# "Teardrops" (Mozart&Friends psychedelic mix) - 3:44
# "Teardrops" (Mozart&Friends house mix) - 5:26
* CD single ("Teardrops" edition)
# "Amaze Me" (album version) - 3:48
# "Teardrops" (single version) - 3:13
# "Teardrops" (Mozart&Friends club mix) - 3:45
# "Teardrops" (Mozart&Friends psychedelic mix) - 3:44
# "Teardrops" (Mozart&Friends house mix) - 5:26
# "Teardrops" (video)

References

External links

*Youtube|IHdxZbeRVBE|"Amaze Me" music video


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