It's Hurting for the First Time

November 30, 1998

It's Hurting for the First Time (German: 'It's hurtful for the first time ') is the second single from the German synthpop duo Wolfsheim from their fourth studio album Spectators and is part of the soundtrack to Detlev Buck movie love your next one!.

Emergence and Artwork

Was written the song of the two Wolfsheim members Peter Heppner and Markus Reinhardt, it was produced by Jose Alvarez- Brill and Wolfsheim. The single was released under the label Strange Ways Records. The recording took place in the Belgian recording studio The Factory. The cover of the maxi-single is black. You can see screenshots from the movie Love your next!.

Publication and Promotion

The first release of the song took place in Europe on 30 November 1998. In addition to the song It's Hurting for the First Time the maxi-single contains an instrumental version and a recorded live in Herford, by Jürgen Jansen from the 24 October 1998 version of the song Real, as a B- side.

Content

The lyrics to It 's Hurting for the First Time is written entirely in English. Musically, the song moves in the field of synth pop.

" Now I Realize, That It 's Just Hurting for the First Time. I Feel It Aching, I Know It's You. "

" Now I understand, it hurts for the first time. I feel the pain, I know that it's you. "

Music Video

The music video is a montage of various scenes of the movie Love your next!. In addition to film scenes are short sequences again and again to see where Wolfsheim play on a rotating backdrop of the film the song. The length of the video is 3:12 minutes. Directed by Detlev Buck as movie film.

Contributors

  • Joachim Berc: Photographer
  • Jose Alvarez- Brill: Producer
  • Detlev Buck: Director
  • Peter Heppner: Vocals, Composer, Producer
  • Tom Meyer: Mastering
  • Markus Reinhardt: Keyboard, Composer, Producer
  • Hanseatic: Sales
  • Motor Music: Music Label
  • Strange Ways Records music label, distribution
  • The Factory: Recording Studio

Charts and chart positions

It's Hurting for the First Time in Germany reached in the first week number 66 of the singles chart. The song could hold a total of six weeks in the charts. In Austria and Switzerland, the title did not come in the charts.

In Germany this is already the second chart success for Wolfsheim.

As a composer, It's Hurting for the First Time is after the flood and Once in a Lifetime 's third chart success Heppner, for Reinhardt, it is the second.

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