Like I Love You (The Hitmen Song)

Like I Love You
The Hitmen
publication	January 31, 2007
length	7:56 min. (Vocal Club Mix)
Genre (s)	Hands-up
Producer (s)	Michael Bein, Ronny Bibow
album	Completed

Like I Love You ( English for "How I love you") is a song of the German DJ - and producer - duo The Hitmen, for the first time on 31 January 2007 on the German Trance was released label dropout. It can be assigned to the hands-up music style and was particularly successful in Denmark. In 2011, the German dance project RIO released a cover version of the song of the same name that hit the single charts in German-speaking countries.

background

Like I Love You was composed and produced by The Hitmen members Michael Bein and Ronny Bibow themselves. The production took place in 2006 in the Ron-Bon-Beat Studio in Kattendorf . After the release of the song was announced in October 2006, it was released on January 31, 2007 as a maxi single and as a download . While DropOut, a sub-label of the German independent label Alphabet City, served as the music label, the major labels EMI Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music acted as publishers . In German-speaking countries, the single failed to achieve commercial success, but reached 34th place in Denmark .

Track list

Maxi single

Like I Love You (Vocal Club Mix) - 7:56
Like I Love You (Instrumental Mix) - 6:29

digital single

Like I Love You (Vocal Club Mix) - 7:56
Like I Love You (Instrumental Mix) - 6:29
Like I Love You (Vocal Club Cut) - 3:26

Version of RIO

Tony T., ex-front man of RIO

On January 27, 2011, the German dance project RIO released a cover version of the song. In this case, the melody and the title of Like I Love You were adopted and a crossover was created between the musical styles of hands-up and commercial house. The text of the original was rewritten for the reinterpretation by the members of the project, Manuel Reuter and Yann Peifer, together with the songwriter Andres Ballinas. The single was released across Europe as a download and single on the music label Zooland , Kontor and Spinnin 'Records . The title was the first single from their second studio album Sunshine . In 2013, a remix of the RIO interpretation produced by the German DJ and producer CJ Stone was released as an album track. This was largely responsible for the success of the song in Switzerland.

In addition to the original new edition by RIO, there were three remix versions on the single. One of these was contributed by Michael Bein, part of The Hitmen under his alias Money G. The second remix was produced by Black Toys, a project to which Manuel Reuter belongs, and is based heavily on the original Like I Love You . The third is by Raf Marchesini and uses a melody sample of the song Narcotic by the German rock band Liquido from 1998.

The official music video was released on January 4, 2011 and directed by German director Dirk Hilger. In addition to Tony T. , the front man of the project, the video also shows German actress Lucrezia Phantazia. It addresses a love relationship that breaks due to an accident. It garnered over 45 million views by July 2020.