Showtime (album)

Show time
Studio album by Bro'Sis
Publication (s)	August 30, 2004
Label (s)	Cheyenne / Polydor
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	R&B, pop , hip-hop
Title (number)	16
running time	47:44
occupation	Ross Antony Hila Bronstein Shaham Joyce Faiz Mangat Giovanni Zarrella
production	Peter Hoff, Fredrik "Fredro" Odesjo, Andy Love, Jos Jorgensen, Marek Pompetzki
Studio (s)	Benztown Studios, Stuttgart Bessermusic Studios, Frankfurt
chronology Days of Our Lives (2003) Show time -
Single release April 5, 2004 U Build Me Up

Showtime ( English for the beginning of the performance ) is the third and final music album by the German R&B band Bro'Sis . The record reached number 24 on the German Media Control album charts.

background

With the third album Showtime , Bro'Sis had the opportunity for the first time to bring in songs they had written and produced themselves. After the failure of the second album, the band decided to realign the identity of the group and to fight against the prejudices as a casting band. The band wanted to be seen as a credible R&B hip hop pop formation. "We wanted to leave the past largely behind and start anew, to reinvent ourselves, as it were." , Faiz Mangat explained the set goals for the third album. Hila Bronstein was also euphoric: “With this record we will fight our way free and assert our actual musical style one hundred percent. Our main goal is to get people to recognize us for who we actually are. "

The recordings started in October 2003 and lasted four months. In the first two months, the recordings took place in the Benztown Studios in Stuttgart, where the band worked on eight of their own songs. Here the producer Peter Hoff gave them music samples and the members wrote their parts separately in different rooms. Ross Antony and Giovanni Zarrella wrote the verses, Faiz Mangat the chorus , Hila Bronstein the bridges and Shaham Joyce the rap parts.

In the Bessermusic Studios in Frankfurt, the band recorded songs from other producers over the next two months.

In total, two self-written songs made it onto the album. In addition to the ballad Wanna Be Free written by the entire band, Funk U, written by Faiz Mangat, represents a settlement with the retired Indira and the band's critics. The album also features three introductions (intros) and an outro written by the band . The song Lie About Us included on the album was later released as a duet by Avant and Nicole Scherzinger .

On April 5, 2004, the single U Build Me Up appeared as a harbinger of the album . The first single was written by Blair Mackichan, producer was Fredrik "Fredro" Odesjo, who had already worked for Dannii Minogue and Billy Crawford . The video was shot in the disused Rummelsburg power plant in the Köpenick district of Berlin. The main part of the clip takes place in the former staff room of the power plant. In addition, the video contains backstage scenes of the band, which the manager Anja Lukaseder had filmed in recent years. However, the single fell short of expectations and only entered the German single charts at number 20. As a result, the album announced for April 19, 2004 was postponed several times.

For the album release on August 30, 2004, the song Make Up Your Mind was decoupled, but it was no longer released as a single, but only as a video and promo CD. The video was shot in an unfinished subway shaft under the Berlin Reichstag. The album received positive reviews, comparing the band's new sound to that of the early Black Eyed Peas .

Showtime recorded the band's most unsuccessful album entry at number 24. After three weeks, the album fell off the charts. In Austria and Switzerland, the album missed the chart entry.

Due to the disappointing sales figures, the cartoon series Wiggle It - The Adventures of Bro'Sis , in which Bro'Sis save the world in 13 episodes in addition to her music career as an agent, was not broadcast. It was actually planned to broadcast on RTL 2 in autumn 2004. Since then, the broadcast of the series has been postponed.

At the end of 2004, the band's record contract with Universal ran out and was not renewed. In 2005 the band mainly performed live. There was also the opportunity to work on individual projects. The interruption announced in autumn 2005 as an “artistic break”, which the individual members wanted to use for their solo projects, turned out to be a final separation in early 2006.

Track list

#	title	Duration
1.	Crazy Radio intro	0:29
2.	Wiggle It	3:40
3.	U Build Me Up	4:35
4th	Freaky intro	0:45
5.	Freaky Deaky	3:34
6th	Crazy	2:59
7th	Fed Up	3:38
8th.	Funk U	3:53
9.	Lie About Us	4:02
10.	Make Up Intro	1:12
11.	Make Up Your Mind	3:12
12.	My One & Only	3:29
13.	Freak out	3:08
14th	Wanna Be Free	4:05
15th	Dirty girl	3:56
16.	Outro	1:15

Chart placements

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2004	Show time	DE24 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 30, 2004

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2004	U Build Me Up	DE20 (8 weeks) DE	AT51 (4 weeks) AT	-	First published: April 5, 2004

Music videos

Ross Antony and Hila Bronstein on the Popstars Tour in Oldenburg

year	title	Location	Director	length
2004	U Build Me Up	Berlin	Katja Kuhl	3:43
	Make Up Your Mind	Berlin	Katja Kuhl	3:11

live

Since Bro'Sis could no longer fill the halls with their own tour, they accepted the offer to accompany the new pop star bands Overground and Preluders on tour as a "special guest" and presented five new songs from their third album.

2004	Popstars Tour
Duration	March 6, 2004 to March 14, 2004
course	Oldenburg, Bremerhaven, Essen, Halle, Göttingen
Song list	U Build Me Up, Wiggle It, Freaky Deaky, Dirty Girl, Fed Up, Medley (Do You, I Believe, Oh No), VIP

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dunja M. Pechner, Michael Fuchs-Gamböck: Popstars backstage . Buhmann & Haeseler Verlag, ISBN 3-927638-27-7 , p. 209
2. ^ Ross Antony, Nadja Otterbach: The Inside Me . Machtwort Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86761-000-1 , p. 184
3. ^ Wiggle It - The Adventures of Bro'Sis , found March 14, 2008
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH