We Started Nothing
Occupation
- Vocals, guitar, bass, Timpani: Katie White
- Drums, backing vocals, piano: Jules DeMartino
We Started Nothing ( German: We brought nothing into existence ) is the debut album by British indie band The Ting Tings. It was published on 16 May 2008.
The album was particularly successful in the home of the Ting Tings, where it reached # 1 on the album charts and was awarded for the sale of 600,000 copies with platinum.
- 4.1 chart positions
- 4.2 Great DJ
- 4.3 That's Not My Name
- 4.4 Shut Up & Let Me Go
- 4.5 Be The One
- 4.6 We Walk
Background information
Songwriting
" She played a D chord, I'd taught her, badly. She swung the guitar around, screaming around and let it fall. It was this moment. We found our energy through a lousy chord ... We turned it into a loop and got down to work. "
Reception
Cathrin Hauswald of Laut.de was enthusiastic about the debut album by the Ting Tings and praised the work for its compelling style of the band:
"It is a cast in Popschuhe aggressiveness that White and De Martino makes kludge so irresistible. Loud, powerful, nölend, immodest, impertinent, intemperate. And equally unlimited cordial.
Katie screams out her affairs, while Jules invites to collective Step -Tip -shake -shake -Step -Step. Canned music is different, and damn does it from. Since you can " Catchy as hell! " cry, but you do not. Dear continue to dance. "
Sound
The sound of the album is characterized by strong electronic influences, including through the use of synthesizers. but there are also the bass drum and the piano in the repertoire of the Ting Tings.
Title list
01 Great DJ ( 3:23 ) 02 That's Not My Name ( 5:11 ) 03 Fruit Machine ( 2:54 ) 04 Traffic Light ( 2:59 ) 05 Shut Up & Let Me Go ( 3:52 )
06 Keep Your Head ( 3:23 ) 07 Be The One ( 2:58 ) 08 We Walk ( 4:05 ) 09 Impacilla Carpisung ( 3:51 ) 10 We Started Nothing ( 6:22 )
Chart positions
The album debuted in the first week, straight to the top of the British album charts, where it could be kept for a week before it dropped to 4. After the album dropped to number 20, it could climb to No. 4 again. In February 2009, almost a year after release, the album climbed back into the Top 10 Overall, " We Started Nothing " was 66 weeks in the charts.
Singles
Chart positions
Great DJ
The song Great DJ ( German: Great DJ) was released as the first single from the album on February 8, 2008. Originally Great DJ was taken as a double A-side along with That's Not My Name on the market, but had little success. Only an independent publication brought the piece number 33 of the UK singles charts.
Great DJ samples the chords and the drum beat of the rock song Baby Hold On by Eddie Money. At Great DJ are two music videos. The first version shows White and DeMartino before an alternating turquoise and red colored background, as they dance to the song. The second video is a live recording of the live concert of the Ting Tings at the Adidas Paint gig.
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That's Not My Name
Originally published with Great DJ, appeared as the second single from We Started Nothing of the indie-pop song That's Not My Name. ( German: This Is Not My Name ) on 9 May 2008 The song is about the teething problems of the Ting Tings in the music business, and assuming that no one could remember her name.
That's Not My Name was the first and only number-one single by the Ting Tings. There are three music videos for the single. The published in Germany shows White and DeMartino in a large hall with green lights as they play the song.
In addition, the song was in the British TV drama Skins 2009 - used up close.
Shut Up & Let Me Go
The third single, Shut Up & Let Me Go ( German: Shut up and let me go ), was released on August 8, 2008. The song was known primarily for use in the commercial for the Apple iPod. The more cheerful and rocking song is about a broken relationship.
The video was filmed by the director's team AlexandLiane and shows the Ting Tings kung -fu. Furthermore, you can see them in different poses, where always one of two thumbs and index fingers of her hands laid on each other so that as a gap results in a sort of triangle, is blinded about the next scene. The music video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category Video of the Year.
Be The One
The fourth single from the album Be The One ( German: Be the one ) was originally supposed to be released on 6 October 2008, but a week was postponed to 13 October.
Be The One is similar in sound and singing her very the style of the German band Wir Sind Helden. The music video shows White, who wakes up in a hospital and sneaks out. It runs along with DeMartino along an alley, later drive the two of them in a car. Behind the two are always seen screens that set the scene in motion.
We Walk
The last single from the album was the piano ballad We Walk ( German: We run). It was published on 23 February 2009. Actually Fruit Machine should be the last single, but it was not published.
The video had 6 February 2009 premiere and shows white and DeMartino walk in a park, around them several clones, resting in the air and on the ground.