This life

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This life
July
publication September 22, 2006
length 3:56 (radio version)
4:34 (album version)
Genre (s) Pop rock
text Simon Triebel , Eva Briegel
music Simon Triebel, Andreas Herde, Eva Briegel, Jonas Pfetzing
Publisher (s) EMI Music Publishing, July edition
Label Polydor Island
album A new day

This life is a song by the German band Juli from 2006. It was released as the first single from their second album Ein neue Tag .

publication

Like all songs from Ein neue Tag , this life was recorded in the Mohrmann studio in Bochum , where the band worked on the album from November 2005 to July 2006. The song was released on September 22, 2006 as a pre-release single. On September 23, 2006, one day after the single was released, the band presented the song as a show act in the first edition of the Saturday evening show Schlag den Raab .

The single was released as a standard as well as a 2-track version:

Standard version

  1. This Life (radio version) - 3:56
  2. This Life (album version) - 4:34
  3. This Life (Jan Driver Remix) - 5:11
  4. This Life (Aug RMX) - 3:42

2-track version

  1. This Life (radio version) - 3:56
  2. This Life (album version) - 4:34
Remix versions

In addition to the remixes on the maxi CD, the following further remixes of This Life were officially released:

  • Tiger Hifi Remix (Download for Musicload )
  • DJ Friction Reggae Style Remix (Download for iTunes )
  • Aural Float Remix Instrumental (released 2007 on the Love Family Park 2007 sampler)

Music video

The official music video for This Life was shot by Moritz Laube (director) and Henner Visit (camera) for Kinoherz Filmproduktion . It was created in August 2006 in Berlin and Potsdam-Babelsberg.

At the beginning you see Eva Briegel lying apparently dead on the sidewalk in front of a prefabricated building block. She opens her eyes and you can see her fall from the roof backwards in slow motion. During the flight, the camera pans to the apartment in the block of flats, where the residents can be seen doing everyday and unusual activities. In one apartment you can see the other four band members playing the song. When the singer arrives on the roof, she pauses briefly, then takes a run and jumps off the edge of the roof. The camera then takes a short flight over Berlin in the evening before arriving back at the apartment block; now the whole band is standing on the sidewalk playing the song.

Contributors

Song production

Artwork

  • Ben Wolf: photos

Companies

Charts and chart placements

The title entered the German single charts on October 6, 2006 at number five, which was also its highest position, and stayed in the charts for 14 weeks until January 2007. After Perfect Wave in 2004, it is the second and, to date (2016) last, top 10 single for July. The single reached the top position in the German airplay charts for five weeks . In Austria , too , they achieved a top 10 placement with seventh place, and in Switzerland with 22nd place, July was the last ever to be listed in the single charts.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 5 (14 weeks) 14th
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 7th (17 weeks) 17th
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 22nd (26 weeks) 26th

Cover versions

Version of Rhythms del Mundo and July

In 2008, as part of the CD project Rhythms del Mundo - Cubano Alemán, a new recording of the song was released as a collaboration with Cuban musicians. On 31 August 2008, the artists performed together at a concert in the IFA - Summer Garden on in Berlin. On December 5, 2008, the Rhythms-del-Mundo version of this life was released as a 2-track single, but could not place in the German charts. The 2-track single included the radio version as well as a so-called "Cubano version" of the song.

Contributors

  • Kenny Young, Berman Brothers : Production
  • Laurence Brazil and Kenny Young, Lazy Moon Studios: Mixdown
  • Frank Rubio: Arrangements
  • Barbarito Torres: Laúd
  • Amadito Valdes: Timbales
  • Demetrio Muniz: musical direction, trombone
  • Harold Lopez-Nussa: piano, keyboard
  • Carlos Alvarez: trombone
  • Jorge Luis Valdes Chicoy: acoustic and electric guitar
  • Frank Rubio: acoustic and electric guitar
  • Tomas Ramos Panga: percussion, timbales
  • Thommy Lowry Garcia: Trumpet
  • Kenny Young: percussion, guitar
  • Yaure Muniz: Trumpet
  • Oscar Martinez Bartelemy: Bongos

More cover versions

  • 2007: In the third season of the MusicStar talent show on Swiss television , the participant Sandra Wild interpreted the song; it appeared (under the title I love this life ) on the album MusicStar - Premium .
  • 2010: The participants of the Sat.1 documentary soap Rock instead of pension! The best comes at the end interpreted the title on their album of the same name.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "Schlag den Raab": New TV show starts in two weeks. (No longer available online.) Fameonme.de, September 7, 2006, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fameonme.de
  2. ^ Anne Vorbringer, Andreas Kurtz: Eva Briegel's band presents their new album in Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 17, 2006
  3. a b July - This life. Official German charts, accessed June 2, 2016 .
  4. Airplay Charts Germany Top 30. surfmusik.de, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  5. July - This Life. austriancharts.at, accessed on June 2, 2016 .
  6. July - This Life. hitparade.ch, accessed on June 2, 2016 .
  7. IFA swings live in the summer garden: German pop in the Cuban Buena Vista sound . In: Berliner Kurier , August 27, 2008
  8. Rhythms del Mundo feat. July - This life. Official German charts, accessed June 2, 2016 .