Stardust (Lena Meyer-Landrut song)
September 21, 2012
" Stardust " is the title of an English pop song from the 2012 album of the same name published in the German singer Lena.
Background
Stardust is a collaborative composition of the Israeli- American artist Rosi Golan and the American musician Tim Myers, a former member of the pop rock band OneRepublic. This is the song together with Pink Elephant and Bliss Bliss is one of three songs on her album, where Lena was not involved as a songwriter. Already for their previous albums Lena took two pieces composed by two musicians, first, to Bee, the Apparitions at Lena's first album My Cassette Player (2010), on the other hand I Like You, which is part of their second album Good News (2011) was. With a third place in the German single charts Bee was the second most successful song in 2010 by Lena by Satellite.
Official Radio premiere of the song was on 8 August 2012., The international live premiere was 21, during the 40th anniversary of the company Porsche Design on September 4, 2012 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.Am September was the song as lead single of her third released album of the same digitally and as a CD single.
Lena himself said the content of the song and the selection for the track list of the album: "When I heard the song for the first time, the album was actually almost done. But here everything was right really: the text is beautiful. The melody is great. [ ... ] You have to actually tear on the spot his arms in the air and they hippieesk swing around the area while listening. Whether you want to or not. So when listening in the subway please a bit to take care of your neighbor. " Musically Lena describes the song as a mix of Michael Jackson and the Kelly Family.
Stardust is a three minute and thirty seconds, pop song. It follows the standard structure of a pop song, which is applied in the form of verse- chorus-verse -chorus- bridge -chorus, with Stardust begins with a brief instrumental intro. The dominant instruments in the song are the piano and the drums, the Lena himself described as " wild". Other instruments used in the song are bass, guitar, glockenspiel and cello.
Critics votes
Critics were very taken with the song and praised it as a highlight of the album.
- "The big hit of the album is undoubtedly the first single release, Stardust, in which Lena's small voice lost in the vastness of the soundscape and decorated the strong, percussion -heavy melody and distorted. In the particularly strong moments of the song can be heard by Lena just an " Ooh- oh-oh -oh- oh-oh -ooh ," which is not a criticism of Lenas Sangeswerk, but a praise of the composition. " ( Maximilian Kloes, focus. en)
- " Stardust sounds like international pop, which is not entirely without claim, but still loose and fluffy sounds like breakfast in bed. The title track, for example, properly managed, with its stoic drums and the whole strumming. " ( Kevin Holtmann, plattentests.de )
- " The hit density on Lena's third album [ has ] felt in favor of more sophisticated compositions eased somewhat, although the first single ( Stardust ) is quite fast in his ear. " (Matthias Reichel, cdstarts.de )
Music Video
The music video was made in August 2012 in the Spanish semi-desert Bardenas. It was released on September 7, 2012. Directed by Bode Brodmüller from Künster collective Hobrecht Animals, who had previously worked with Joy Dena Lane, Max Herre and Jan Delay.
The music news site musikmarkt.de wrote to the video: In the video to Stardust Lena shows beginning with its covered by glitter face. Then Lena wanders through environments that are reminiscent of various vegetation zones of the African desert. Several times Lena is accompanied by a choir in Stardust, which - in contrast to the protagonist - covered with mud, obviously represents a group of primeval desert dwellers. At one point in the video [ ..] you can see that group when climbing a small mountain. On the next screen followed by a desert panorama, which now shows a monkey in climbing that mountain. The link between ape and man puts the thought suggesting that Lena alludes to the song called " Stardust " on topics such as evolution or creation, including the Stardust, the origin of the elements. Various scenes [ ... ] show Lena also enveloped in a cloud of steam. Many a time Lena lolls in Stardust on the desert floor or a bed on which she [ ... ] asleep at the end of the video.
On March 21, 2013, the video was awarded the Echo music award.
Title list
- Time is a cover of the same song by the British band Ben's Brother, which appeared on their album Beta Male Fairytales.
Charts
After release on September 21, 2012 Stardust went straight on 8 October at No. 2 in the German Single Charts. Two months after publication, the single reached gold status. Overall, the song ran 26 weeks in the German charts.
Awards
Trivia
- Stardust was selected me in November 2012 love as the theme song for the film Jesus.
- Stardust in the TV was too Defying Gravity trailers - love to hear in space on SIXX.
- In the spring of 2014, the song for the campaign Where the entertainer live the British television channel ITV was used.
Contributors
- Songwriting: Rosi Golan, Tim Myers
- Production: Swen Meyer
- Vocals: Lena Meyer -Landrut
- Drums: Reiner " Kallas " Hubert
- Bass: Felix Weigt
- Guitar, glockenspiel: Marcus Schneider
- Cello: Hagen Kuhr
- Percussion: Swen Meyer
- Mix: Black Pete
- Mastering: Greg Calbi
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