Perfect wave
| Perfect wave | |
|---|---|
| July | |
| publication | June 28, 2004 |
| length | 3:16 (radio version) 3:20 (album version) |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| text | Simon Triebel |
| music | Simon Triebel, Andreas Herde |
| Label | Polydor Island |
| album | It's july |
Perfect Welle is the debut single of the German-speaking pop-rock band Juli from Gießen and is their most commercially successful single to date. The single was released on June 28, 2004, about three months before their debut album Es ist Juli .
Emergence
In 2001, the band, which had previously written in English under the name Sunnyglade , decided to start over as July with German lyrics.Many titles such as November , Why or Anders , which later appeared on the first album, were already released at this time written; Perfect Welle , on the other hand, came about shortly before the band's first recordings, after they signed their recording deal with Universal Music in August 2003 , and was viewed as a by-product at the time. The song is one of the few in the band whose bassist Andreas "Dedi" Herde is named as a co-author. Like most of the songs on the album, Perfekte Welle was recorded under the direction of music producer Olaf Opal in the Mohrmann Studio in Bochum , where the band stayed from November 2003 to January 2004.
Publication and chart placements
When a first single was to be selected before the album was released, the A&R manager responsible for July initially rejected the song according to the memories of the band:
“Our A&R at the time took the hottest contenders to the singles meeting. However, he didn't want to take Perfect Wave with him because he wouldn't understand the text. Our manager was on 180 and Simon sent him a 1A text analysis within a few hours, just like in school. Simon's German teacher would have been proud. He was then persuaded to take it to the meeting, which turned out to be a good decision. "
In March 2004, Perfekte Welle was played for the first time on the radio station hr3 . The single was released on June 28, 2004. After the single was released, the band debuted in the official German sales charts at number 38. After the song stayed in this area of the charts for a few weeks, it became his chart hit from late summer 2004 Placement could steadily increase. On August 30th the top 20 and on September 20th the top 10 were reached, in which it was able to hold until the beginning of January 2005. It had the highest ranking in the charts from October 25th and November 8th, in which it reached number 2. Due to the unexpected success, the release of the follow-up single Geile Zeit was even postponed. After more than seven months, it reached its last chart placement on February 28, 2005.
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
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2 (34 weeks) | 34 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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2 (29 weeks) | 29 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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18th (19 weeks) | 19th |
After the earthquake in the Indian Ocean , which triggered several tsunamis with hundreds of thousands of deaths on December 26, 2004 , Perfect Wave was temporarily taken out of rotation by many radio stations because of the "wave" sung in the title . In addition to Perfect Wave , titles such as Die Flut by Witt / Heppner or Land unter by Herbert Grönemeyer were temporarily removed from the program. The SWR3 spokesman Frank Bischoff, for example, stated that it would not fit if such titles were played now. The band expressed "understanding that the song is no longer played on the radio".
Music video
The music video for Perfekte Welle was filmed in Sankt Peter-Ording , directed by Hans Hammers . The cameraman was Ben Wolf, who had previously taken the band as a photographer for their first photo shoot for album and single. The video shows the band doing activities on the North Sea beach and in the surrounding area. The shooting took place within 14 hours on April 14, 2004.
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reception
Perfect Welle was part of a boom in young German-speaking bands that were able to establish themselves high in the sales charts in the mid-2000s; in addition to July, this included Silbermond or Wir sind Helden . The title of the song led to associations with the Neue Deutsche Welle ; for example, the Süddeutsche Zeitung titled an article on December 24, 2004, “New German Perfect Wave” . From November 2004 to May 2006 Universal Music brought out four samplers with current German-language pop music under the title Perfect Welle - Musik von hier ; July was represented on all four issues.
Cover versions and parodies
- The Belgian girls' choir Scala & Kolacny Brothers released the song on their first German-language album Grenzenlos (released October 10, 2005).
- The South African girl group Shine4 released the song on Afrikaans with the title Perfect Wêreld on the album of the same name.
- The Polish band Ich Troje released a Polish version of the song under the title Perfekcyjna miłość on their album 7 grzechów głównych (released December 18, 2006).
- The Dresden a cappella group medlz released the song on their album Our Time (release: November 19, 2010).
- The Quietschboys parodied the song as The Perfect Flatulence on their album Sossenheim (release: 2005).
- The NDR satirical program extra 3 broadcast a parody of the then FDP chairman Das ist Guido Westerwelle in its edition of January 8, 2009 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d July: Review. juli.tv, archived from the original on May 15, 2006 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Pia Hart: Of perfect waves and great times. Focus Online, January 17, 2005, accessed May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Perfect wave. universal-music.de, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c July - Perfect Wave. Official German charts, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ July - Perfect Wave. austriancharts.at, accessed on May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ July - Perfect Wave. hitparade.ch, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Radio: radio stations cancel "The perfect wave". Spiegel Online, December 28, 2004, accessed May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Radio stations react to natural disasters. mediabiz.de, accessed on May 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Marcel Römer : Video shoot Perfect Wave. juli.tv, April 14, 2004, archived from the original on July 13, 2009 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Oliver Fuchs: New German perfect wave. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 24, 2004, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Perfect Wave - Music from Here. Universal Music, accessed May 23, 2016 .