Titanium (song)
December 9, 2011
Titanium is a song by French DJ and producer David Guetta, which he recorded together with the Australian singer Sia Furler. The song was officially released on December 9, 2011 as the fourth single from Guetta's fifth studio album Nothing but the Beat. Already on August 5, came the song out as the first of three promotional singles of the album. It was produced by Guetta song, as well as the music producer Giorgio Tuinfort and Afrojack.
Background
After Guetta became aware of the music of Sia on the Internet, he chose the singer for the involvement on his new album. Before Sia recorded the song with Guetta, she sent a demo of her songs written by various artists, such as. At the American singer Mary J. Blige and Guetta Guetta initially offered the U.S. singer Katy Perry to contribute vocals to the song, they rejected this offer but from. The song was originally recorded with vocals by Mary J. Blige, this version of the song appeared prior to the publication in July 2011 on the Internet.
Criticism
Some critics described the song as one of the Leittitel of the album. Rich Lopez wrote of the Dallas Voice that "the collaborative lyrics would carry this song to higher levels than all the other songs on the album ." The music magazine Billboard described the song as Guetta's weirdest and most epic song at the same time. The critic Joe Copplestone was of the online magazine PopMatters that " auferleben the songs from the album Nothing but the beat as Titanium and Night of Your Life the strength of Guetta's previous collaborations with the U.S. singer Kelly Rowland When Love Takes Over and Commander again would leave. " Furthermore, there is the initial guitar riff a strong resemblance to the beginning of Every Breath You Take The Police the group.
Music Video
In the video for the song neither Guetta nor Sia play with. It's about a little boy who is played by the American actor Ryan Lee. The boy has supernatural powers and runs in the video before American special police it. The official premiere of the video took place on 21 December 2011.
In contrast to the song itself, the music video came mainly on Internet platforms such as YouTube rather negative response.