Maniac (Victoria Conrady Song)
| Maniac | |
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| Victoria Conrady feat. Mark Forster | |
| publication | March 6, 2015 |
| length | 3:46 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Victoria Conrady |
| Award (s) | Your song Sigertitel |
| album | Your song 2015 |
Maniac ( English for "crazy") is a song by the German singer-songwriter Victoria Conrady, in cooperation with the German pop singer Mark Forster . The piece is the winning title of the songwriting competition Dein Song from 2015.
Creation and publication
The song was written by Victoria Conrady. The single was produced by Christoph Paulssen . The final arrangement was made with the help of Mark Forster and Daniel Nitt . The single was released under the music label Sony Music and distributed by Sony / ATV Music Publishing .
Maniac was first published as a single download on March 6, 2015. The song can also be found on the Dein Song 2015 sampler . In order to promote the song, Conrady made a live appearance at daheim + on the way on WDR television and Conrady and Forster performed together on Volle Kanne on ZDF .
content
The lyrics to Maniac are written in German and English, translated into German, the title means "Wahnsinnig". The music and the text were specially written by Conrady. Musically, the song moves in the area of pop music . The song is built on two stanzas, a bridge and a refrain between and after the stanzas. The song begins with the first verse that is sung by Conrady, Forster enters the middle of it and they take turns singing the lines of the verse. The first verse is followed by the refrain, which is sung by both of them together. The same process follows with the second stanza. After the second verse there is a short bridge that is also sung by both and then a repeating refrain. The stanzas and the bridge are all in German, the refrain in English.
In an interview with KiKA , Conrady described the content of the song as follows: "It is about a strong love that can almost drive you crazy because the person in love experiences such intense feelings that they can no longer think of anything else."
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Music video
The music video for Maniac premiered on March 3, 2015 during Dein Song on KIKA . You can see Conrady walking through a forest and suddenly discovering an endlessly long red cloth. The cloth wanders through the forest and Conrady pursues it and tries to catch it. First of all, it takes her out of the forest to a place with old railroad cars where she stays for a while. Towards the end she leads the cloth to a castle on the tower of which she gets to grasp the cloth. Shortly after she got her hands on the scarf, she lets go of it again and the scarf flies out of the castle window back into nature. In between scenes with studio recordings of Conrady and Forster, as well as a scene of Conrady drawing a picture (of two approaching hands) can be seen. The total length of the video is 3:55 minutes. Directed by Andreas Z Simon.
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reception
Awards
On March 6th, 2015 Conrady won the songwriting competition Dein Song together with her godfather Forster . For this Conrady was named "Songwriter of the Year 2015". In the final show she was able to prevail over her seven colleagues and their godparents Laith Al-Deen , Blank & Jones , MC Fitti , Stefanie Heinzmann , Flo Mega , Gregor Meyle and Olly Murs by telephone voting .
Charts and chart placements
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Maniac reached position 99 in the singles charts in Germany and stayed in the charts for a week. The single was able to place itself in the daily evaluations of the German iTunes charts for four days and achieved the highest ranking with 46th place. For Conrady and her producer Paulssen, this is the first and so far only chart success of their careers. For Forster as an interpreter, this is already the sixth chart success in the German single charts.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Your Song 2015, Season 7, Episode 13, KIKA, March 2nd, 2015.
- ↑ a b Victoria Conrady with Mark Forster - Maniac. austriancharts.at, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
- ^ Maniac - Victoria Conrady & Mark Forster. amazon.de, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ at home + on the go, WDR television, May 7, 2015.
- ^ Volle Kanne, ZDF, March 20, 2015.
- ↑ Songwriter of the Year: Victoria (18). ( Memento from June 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) kika.de, accessed on April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Your Song 2015, Season 7, Episode 14, KIKA, March 3, 2015.
- ↑ Your song 2015. imdb.com, accessed on May 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Victoria is "Songwriter of the Year 2015". ( Memento from May 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) kika.de, accessed on April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Victoria Conrady with Mark Forster - Magic. officialcharts.de, accessed on May 25, 2017 .
- ^ Victoria Conrady & Mark Forster - Magic. itunescharts.net, accessed on May 25, 2017 .