Promises (Nero song)

August 5, 2011

Promises is a song of the dubstep trio Nero, which was first published on August 5, 2011 on iTunes. Producers and lyricists were Nero itself

Skrillex produced jointly with Nero a remix of the song, the song gained great fame due to the use in a commercial for a laptop of the company HP. On YouTube, the remix August 2012 had over 13,500,000 views.

Text

The text is about how a man and a woman love, but their relationship might get in danger if they break the rules and promise of the society in which they live (English Promises ) by resisting the authority ("[ ... ] Telling me that you'll be sweet, and you'll never want to leave my side, as long as I do not break these ... Promises, and silent They feel all so wasted on myself [ ... ] ").

Music Video

The official music video was first published on July 7, 2011 on YouTube. Where it has a length of four minutes and sixteen seconds. The video is about a future in which people are forced to take drugs. As in the song speaks to the loving couple about his relationship, which would break apart, they would defend themselves against the leadership. But you should decide to spit out the pills, which they were forced to take. The couple kisses, whereupon they are torn apart. In August 2012, it got there about 15.7 million clicks. The film was directed by Ben Newman.

Reception

Charts

The single was the UK Nero's first number -one hit by boarding on 20 August 2011 at the peak position. In the first week the single was sold 46,700 times, the lowest number since about 21 months. Overall, the title stayed for seven weeks in the charts. In Germany, he was also able in two weeks at No. 67, in Switzerland number 34, reached the number 70 in Austria space 28 and in the United States. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States the song each in 2012 went into the charts after it was known by the HP advertising.

Criticism

The song received mostly positive criticism.

• Said Robert Copsey from Digital Spy that Promises would be one of Nero's sharpest and most head twisting publication and awarded four stars.

• A writer of Unreality Shout gave a positive review and awarded 5 stars.

• Kerri Mason of Billboard reviewte the remix of Skrillex and Nero and said that it sounded strangely out of nowhere, would be on a dance floor or the like but pure adrenaline.