Even Heaven Cries
| Even Heaven Cries | |
|---|---|
| Monrose | |
| publication | March 2, 2007 |
| length | 2:57 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) |
Philip Denker , Lauren Evans , Jonas Jeberg , Jens Lumholt , Robbie Nevil |
| album | Temptation |
Even Heaven Cries is a pop ballad written by Robbie Nevil, Lauren Evans, Philip Denker, Jonas Jeberg and Jens Lumholt for the girl band Monrose's debut album Temptation . It was produced by Jeberg and released on March 2, 2007 as a second single. With this song, the group took part in the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and came in second behind Roger Cicero ( women rule the world ).
publication
Even Heaven Cries was premiered live on November 16, 2006 in the penultimate episode of the fifth season of the casting format Popstars by band member Mandy Capristo and the finalists Katarzyna Zinkiewicz and Romina Reinhardt. In the last episode of the show, the song was sung two more times, but without being announced as Monrose's second single at the time.
After the album was released, the song became one of the twenty most downloaded tracks on the German music download portal Musicload , and the band's website launched an online survey about which song should be released as the second single. In January 2007, Even Heaven Cries claimed 47 percent of the vote, after which it was officially announced as Monrose's second single. The band sang the song again to get a better result than the album version mixed together under time pressure. On February 16, 2007, the group performed the final version for the first time as part of the ProSieben Fight Night .
The CD single was released on March 2, 2007 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. There were two other songs on it: Diamonds & Pearls , which was performed by Arjeta Zuta in the penultimate episode of the Popstars season, and Butt Butt as the album's bonus track.
Music video
The music video for Even Heaven Cries was shot in February 2007 in Berlin-Spandau under the direction of Katja Kuhl and Moritz Krebs and premiered on February 22nd on the band's website. On February 23, it was broadcast for the first time on VIVA television. The video shows Monrose in a flower-filled garden, Kizil sits on a swing, while Guemmour stands in front of a cherry tree and Capristo sits on a bench. Scenes of two harassed women and a father whose son soils his apartment with yellow paint are cut in. They seem to be desperate, but then the garden in which Monrose are located turns out to be a glass ball, which gives the three new courage. The music video plays with two strongly contrasting worlds: on the one hand the glass ball, which shows a colorful, fairy-like dreamland, but on the other hand the colorless, dreary, oppressive world in which injustice and grief determine everyday life.
Chart placements
| nation | position | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
 Germany
|
6th | 12 |
 Austria
|
17th | 15th |
 Switzerland
|
19th | 7th |