Gäa (song)
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| Oonagh | |
| publication | March 21, 2014 |
| length | 3:55 |
| Genre (s) | World music |
| Author (s) |
Michael Boden , Lukas Hainer, Hartmut Krech , Mark Nissen |
| album | Oonagh |
Gaea is a song by German Pop - singer Oonagh . The track is the first single from their debut album Oonagh .
Creation and artwork
The song was written by the German music authors Michael Boden , Lukas Hainer, Hartmut Krech and Mark Nissen. The latter two also produced the song. The single was released under the music label We Love Music and distributed by Universal Music Publishing . On the cover of the single, Oonagh kneels in a white dress in a body of water. The photo shoot for the cover picture was carried out by Christian Barz and took place at the same time as the work on the music video in Cape Town .
Publication and promotion
Gäa was first published on March 21, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to Gäa , the maxi single also contains the song Orome as the B-side . To promote the song was followed by, among others, live performances for prime time in the great festival for the anniversary in the First and Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel in ZDF .
content
The lyrics to Gäa are in German (stanzas) and Quenya (chorus). The music was written jointly by Hartmut Krech and Mark Nissen, the text was also written by the two in collaboration with Michael Boden and Lukas Hainer. Musically, the song moves in the field of ethno-pop . Gäa is a name for Gaia , the Greek goddess of the earth. The online presence of the Weltbild publishing group described the content of the song as a musical homage to Mother Earth, whose power pulsates in each of us.
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Music video
The shooting of Gäa took place in December 2013 in Cape Town , South Africa . As a reason why the video was shot in Cape Town, the singer cited that the “majestic landscapes” of Cape Town reflect exactly what the song is about. During the music video, sections of the various types of landscape in Cape Town can be seen and Oonagh can be seen singing her song in the midst of these landscapes.
The music video premiered on January 24, 2014, two days earlier Oonagh published a making of for the video shoot Gäas on Facebook and YouTube . The shooting dragged on over two days and in addition to the music video for Gäa , a music video for the song Orome was shot at the same time . The total length of the video is 4:04 minutes. Directed by Sören Schaller.
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criticism
Gäa , like the piece Orome from the same album, was the subject of a controversial discussion among Tolkien fans. While some advocated the linguistic and content-related reference to Sindarin and Quenya, as well as the book The Silmarillion , the critics accused the project of making Tolkien's work insignificant and misusing it for commercial purposes.
Charts and chart placements
Due to the high number of downloads, Gäa reached the German single charts for the first time on February 28, 2014, even before it was officially released as a single . The song reached position 67 and stayed in the charts for a total of four weeks. For Delliponti this is already the sixth chart success in the German single charts. It is the first single in seven years to make it onto the charts.
Individual evidence
- ^ Oonagh Distribution by Universal Music Group at musicline.de, last accessed on: February 14, 2014.
- ↑ Oonagh - Gaea . austriancharts.at, accessed on October 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Cover photographer at amazon.de last accessed on: February 14, 2014.
- ^ The big anniversary celebration, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, March 22, 2014.
- ↑ Welcome to Carmen Nebel, ZDF, April 17, 2014.
- ↑ Repertoire search. online.gema.de, accessed on October 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Gäa ( Memento from February 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at Weltbild.de, accessed on February 10, 2014.
- ↑ Making of Gäa on YouTube , accessed on February 10, 2014
- ^ Director of Gäa
- ↑ Oonagh - Gaea . officialcharts.de, accessed on October 25, 2016 .
- ^ Oonagh - songs in German and Elvish - Lord of the Rings Film Forum. In: forum.herr-der-ringe-film.de. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Silmarillion meets Ethno-Pop-Schnulze . In: hdrf.de . ( herr-der-ringe-film.de [accessed October 24, 2016]).