Stay (Hurts song)
November 15, 2010 (UK) February 11 2011 (D)
Stay is a song by the British synthpop duo Hurts from their debut album Happiness. On 15 November 2010 the song Stay was coupled out in the UK as the third single of the album.
In Germany, the song was released on February 11, 2011 and popularized by use in the credits of the comedy Kokowääh by Til Schweiger.
Reception
The STAR Magazine gave the song 5 of 5 stars and said:
" We're not really sure how such dark music may still be so great. But the nature of the synth duo, be dealing with a simple melody, romantic lyrics and Theo Hutch Crafts intimate vocals make this electro-pop ballad into a beautiful elegy about a lost love. Overwhelming! "
Music Video
The director for music video led Dave Ma, it was filmed in Iceland and shows Theo Hutchcraft, the singer of the band Hurts, with his girlfriend. You walk along the shore of a lake and go together through a narrow path in a foggy landscape. During the video scenes of the duo will be shown again and again how they sing the song near the shore, along with a group of dancers who dance and take care of the backing vocals. Director Ma describes the day of the video shoot: " It was cloudy and suddenly appeared on this fog, which produced an amazing fog landscape for the video. It was also very cold and everyone tried under these cold conditions to make the best of it and finally the result was a beautiful music video that also perfectly suits the song. " In the German version of the music video clippings were pasted from the film Kokowääh.
Commercial success
With the launch of the film Kokowääh and one week before publication of the CD version to Stay was able to place in the German single charts from Media Control to position 3 as a download only track.