Don't wake me up

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Don't wake me up
Chris Brown
publication May 18, 2012
length 3:42
Genre (s) R&B
Author (s) Chris Brown , Alain White, Brian "BK" Kennedy
music Marco Benassi
album Fortune

Do not Wake Me Up is a Contemporary R & B - song of the American singer Chris Brown . The piece was written by Brown, Alain White, Brian "BK" Kennedy and the Italian DJ Benny Benassi and was released in May 2012 as the fourth single from Brown's fifth studio album Fortune .

criticism

Don't Wake Me Up got mixed reviews. Lewis Corner from Digital Spy called the song "the greatest anthem of summer 2012". The auto-tune effect in the chorus was criticized, however.

Music video

The video for Don't Wake Me Up was shot by Collin Tilley on May 14, 2012 in a desert and published on June 11, 2012. Chris Brown said many of his music videos are set in a dream world, and now he wants to make a video about these dream worlds. He wakes up in a dream in a dream, like in the movie Inception .

Charts

Don't Wake Me Up was a number one hit in Austria and number two in England , Australia and New Zealand , while it peaked at number 10 in the US. In Germany it rose to number 11.

Individual evidence

  1. Phil Kukawinski: Chris Brown, 'Don't Wake Me Up' - New Song . In: AOL Radio . AOL . May 22, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  2. Lewis Corner: Chris Brown: 'Don't Wake Me Up' - Single Review . In: Digital Spy . Hachette Filipacchi Médias. June 13, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  3. Robbie Daw: Chris Brown's 'Don't Wake Me Up': Breezy Hits the Dance Floor With David Guetta . In: Idolator . Buzz Media. May 11, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  4. Article on Rap-Up.com
  5. Chris Brown on his video
  6. http://www.austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Brown&titel=Don%27t+Wake+Me+Up&cat=s
  7. http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/12-07-14/
  8. http://acharts.co/song/71026
  9. Archived copy ( Memento from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )