Elle'ments

Occupation

Nadja Benaissa Lucy Diakovska Sandy Mölling Vanessa Petruo Jessica Wahls

Elle'ments is the debut album by German pop band No Angels. The album was released in March 2001 and reached a newcomer number one in the German, Austrian and Swiss album charts. The album is, with more than a million copies sold, seven gold and three platinum awards, one of the most successful productions that has ever been published by a German group.

Background

After participating in the talent show Popstars, where she emerged as the winner, launched in November 2000, Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, Vanessa Petruo and Jessica Wahls in Munich preparations for their first single. Accompanied by their already existing popularity and the talent show by clever marketing, coupled with a large number of promotional performances and interviews, the publication of the first single Daylight in Your Eyes on 5 February 2001 was a great success. The title reached number one in the German, Brazilian, Swiss and Austrian charts. In Germany the song with over 1,000,000 copies sold, the most successful single of the year 2001.

With the published in March 2001 album Elle'ments the No Angels were staged as a German version of the Spice Girls. As with the Spice Girls each band member was provided with a Image: At the No Angels, these write-ups based on the elements of fire (Lucy ), Ice (Sandy ), Earth ( Vanessa ), air ( Nadja ) and the spirit with Jessica.

In addition to the best-selling single Daylight in Your Eyes twelve more Poptitel were written for the album and produced. Involved were a great team of writers and musicians around the producers Thorsten Brötzmann, Peter Ries and Patrik Majer. The entry of the project No Angels in the music industry was strategically planned and implemented by management, which is reflected quantitatively by the sales of the album. High solid was adapted to the market mainstream pop music with little claim to profound lyrics.

Music

The overall impression of the album, the music of No Angels songs by the Spice Girls can be compared. The group moves stylistically across the typical pop - areas. Ballads, gospel songs and Gitarren-Pop/Rock alternate. The lyrics do not match the English sung title of the musical quality. Half-sentences, frequent repetitions in the chorus and the inflationary use of the theme "love" in the foreground.

Title list

In the course of the sales success of the album was re-released two more times modified. Firstly, a karaoke appeared Edition, on the other hand a special winter edition, which contained the single There Must Be an Angel and the not yet published titles 100 % Emotional and What Am I Supposed to Do.

Singles

• Daylight in Your Eyes (release date: February 5, 2001 )
• Rivers of Joy (release date: April 30, 2001)
• There Must Be an Angel (release date: August 13, 2001)
• When the Angels Sing / Atlantis (release date: November 16, 2001)

Reviews

• Eberhard Dobler, Laut.de: " What else should send to the five girls who dance with us chart- compliant teen pop à la Spice Girls and Britney Spears to the ears, be it?, Chart suitability ' is an understatement to say the least said. For the ladies currently breaking all sales records. Four producers have built the No Angels, a musical easily digestible Dance -Love- Star - nest. No question, we are on an international pop level. "

• Susanne Frömel, Berliner Zeitung: " Perhaps such pop stars can not actually touch, but maybe that's not important. The ' No Angels ' make a great show, and you get the feeling that they are actually better than the musical format that is planned for them. You will probably eventually go the way of all girl bands. In some of them reality and self-assessment will overlap and it will aim to be the individual suddenly. "

• ProSieben review: " For no apparent own style, with no discernible own line offers " Elle'ments " a collection of well-crafted pop songs that all too often fall back on tried and so well-known knitting pattern [ ... ] Who this lack of independence of the Angels does not interfere with the offers « Elle'ments " undoubtedly a pretty best of pop album enriched with all the band's hits. But those who seek independence, authenticity and uniqueness, is at a drawing board as the band No Angels anyway at the wrong address. "