You (cro song)
| You | |
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| Cro | |
| publication | June 29, 2012 |
| length | 2:54 |
| Genre (s) | Hip-hop , pop |
| Author (s) | Carlo Waibel |
| Award (s) | EN: gold |
| album | Raop |
Du is a song by the German rapper and singer Cro . It can be assigned to the genres hip-hop and pop . The song was produced, written and composed by Cro alone. It was released on June 29, 2012 on iTunes . The cover of the single shows a girl with a panda mask. The piece is included in Cross's album Raop .
text
The text is about his girlfriend, who expresses her wishes (“She says she would like to go to the sea”, “I just want so much that it is enough stress-free”) in order to recover from the stress. Cro replies in the chorus (“Because baby believe me, you are the best”). In the second stanza, Cro continues his answer and explains the difficulties involved in life as a musician.
background
Before the song was released, there was an audio sample on YouTube on June 12th . The media quickly found out about it and reported on the song. At that time it was already clear that the single would be out on June 29th. On 28 June 2012, the song celebrated full-length then premiere at tape.tv . In the following two days after the release, two more singles were released, King of Raop and Meine Zeit .
Music video
Published on tape.tv on June 28th, you premiered on YouTube a day later. The video reflects the lyrics of the song. You see Cro driving down the street with his girlfriend in a car, but the car breaks down and they have to stop. As soon as the chorus starts you can see them jumping into the sea. You can see the woman alternately in her bed and on the beach. At the end of the video, you are on an airplane. The video was directed by Niels Münter, the production was carried out by www.clatch.de. November 2012 the video had over 12 million hits.
reception
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany
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2 | 31 |
 Austria
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10 | 28 |
 Switzerland
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42 | 18th |
| Annual charts (2012) | placement |
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Germany
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35 |
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Austria
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58 |
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Switzerland
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- |
Charts and awards
Second place in Germany was achieved in Austria and Switzerland tenth place 42. He also received you for more than 300,000 units sold in Germany a platinum record .
criticism
Erich Unrau from hiphop.de reports that you represent a "musical homage to the 80s pop sound with its echoing claps, funky basslines and retro synths". It was reported on tribe-online.de that it was one of the highlights from the album. Simon Langemann from laut.de thinks the song would go in the direction of synth-pop and Julian Dannenhauer from generation-one.de writes that Cro in Du “simply tells everyone about his happiness”.
Allegations of plagiarism
There were plagiarism allegations against Cro, he had based the song too much on the song "Something About Us" by Daft Punk .
Individual evidence
- ↑ You - Single , iTunes , accessed August 8, 2012
- ^ Cover of the single , hitparade.ch, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Cro - Raop (Review) , deutschrapblog.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Lyrics , accessed August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Cro - DU - prelistening (Official) , YouTube, accessed on August 8, 2012 Design.
- ↑ John Dorian: Cro shows audio sample of the single “Du” ( memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , jds-rap-blog.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ PRELISTENING CRO - DU , kessel.tv, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Fabian Thomas: Cro brings "Du" as a single , hiphop.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ a b Phil Weichert: Cro publishes three singles in three days , rap.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Cro: World premiere of "Du" on tape.tv | with video ( memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , musikmarkt.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Music video on tape.tv, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ a b CRO - DU (OFFICIAL VERSION) , YouTube, accessed on August 8, 2012
- ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. AT CH
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: DE Annual Charts 2012 Charts.de, accessed on November 3, 2013
- ↑ AT Annual Charts 2012 austriancharts.de, accessed on November 3, 2013
- ↑ CH Annual Charts 2012 swisscharts.com, accessed on November 3, 2013
- ↑ DE: Platinum
- ↑ Erich Unrau: Review: Cro - Raop , hiphop.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Cro - Raop , tribe-online.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Simon Langemann: Raop , laut.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Julian Dannenhauer: The "future of German rap" on the test bench. ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), generation-one.de, accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Everything is just stolen - The latest song thieves ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , regenbogen.de, accessed on May 12, 2012.
