Addicted to love
| Addicted to love | |
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| Robert Palmer | |
| publication | November 1985 (Album) January 1986 (USA) March 14, 1986 (Europe) |
| length | 4:04 (7 "-single) 4:56 (12" -maxi) |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| Author (s) | Robert Palmer |
| Producer (s) | Bernard Edwards |
| Label | Island Records |
| album | Riptide |
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Addicted to Love is a 1985 song by Robert Palmer , written by him and produced by Bernard Edwards . It was first released in November 1985 on the album Riptide . The single , released in January 1986, became a number one hit in the United States . The music video for the song is considered to be groundbreaking for the 1980s.
history
While Robert Palmer has been musically oriented towards funk , calypso , reggae , soul and electronica since the mid-1970s , he only made his breakthrough with the simple rock song Addicted to Love . According to his own account, the melody occurred to Palmer in a dream, he woke up and immediately recorded the melody. The lyrics were inspired by the discussions of the time about addiction to drugs, alcohol and anorexia, many of Palmer's acquaintances would have sought treatment for their addiction. Palmer believes that the root cause of such problems lies in personality, and he found the idea of someone being dependent on love exciting.
When recording the song, he was supported by the supergroup Power Station , of which he was a member at the time. The first recording of the song was a duet with Chaka Khan , whom Palmer had met in a club and invited her to the studio recording for his album Riptide , which was currently in progress . However, her vocal tracks were deleted from the master tapes before the final mix because she had contractual problems with her record company. Chaka Khan was recognized for the vocal arrangements .
The single Addicted to Love was released in January 1986 in the USA. Later dates are given for other markets. The song became a number one hit in the United States and Australia . Palmer also won the song at the 1987 Grammy Awards in the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category . Palmer himself was surprised by the success, because he did not have the feeling of creating a hit while writing the song.
Music video
The music video shows Palmer in front of a group of five uniformly haired, made up and dressed young women. Palmer's image in the video is considered one of the most iconic appearances of the 1980s. He lives from the contrast between the sexes, on the one hand Robert Palmer as the modern Casanova and on the other hand the group of attractive mannequins who pretend to play their instruments as an accompanying band. The video for Addicted to Love is described as "legendary", it was not only tailored to the personality of Robert Palmer, but made him "immortal". Directed by Terence Donovan.
The video was named Best Male Video at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards .
In the video for the Prince hit Alles nur stolen , the scene with Tobias Künzel in the role of the singer is faithfully reproduced. In the video for the song Man! I feel like a woman! of Shania Twain turn the addicted-to-Love clip is parodiert with opposite rollers; a band of male models accompanies the singer.
reception
Shortly after the release of the single and the video, Robert Palmer emphasized that neither the song nor the video were chauvinistic , rather he wanted to commemorate the “youthful magic and sensuality” typical of contemporary pop culture. The song combines elements from disco and hard rock , with particular emphasis on the modern production by Edwards, the massive use of gate on the drums and the catchy hookline .
Cover versions
- 1986: Weird Al Yankovic (Addicted to Spuds)
- 1988 Ciccone Youth
- 1988: Tina Turner (live versions)
- 1997: Power Station
- 2004: Rod Stewart
- 2009: Florence and the Machine
On Robert Palmer's live album Live at the Apollo from 2001 there is a live version of the song, where Palmer sings Roll over Beethoven by Chuck Berry to the rhythm of Addicted .
Web links
- Addicted to Love at Songfacts.com (English)
- Music video with Robert Palmer on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources for chart placements: US , accessed June 27, 2013.
- ↑ Addicted to Love in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ a b c Toby Cresswell: 1001 Songs. The Great Songs of all Time . Hardie Grant Books, Prahran 2007, ISBN 978-1-74066-458-5 , pp. 70 .
- ↑ a b c Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Billboard Books, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 634 .
- ↑ a b c d e Stan Hawkins: The British Pop Dandy. Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture . Ashgate Publishing, Farnham et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-5858-0 , pp. 78 f .
- ↑ release date on 45cat.com.
- ^ Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love , hitparade.ch
- ^ VMA 1986 - MTV Video Music Awards. In: MTV.vom. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .