Take Me Tonight
| Take Me Tonight | |
|---|---|
| Alexander Klaws | |
| publication | March 14, 2003 |
| length | 4:00 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Dieter Bohlen |
| Producer (s) | Dieter Bohlen |
| Label | Sony BMG |
| album | Take your chance |
Take Me Tonight is a pop song by Alexander Klaws . The piece, written by Dieter Bohlen , was the winning title of the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2003.
Production and reception
The song was composed, written and produced by Dieter Bohlen , who was also a juror for the show. It was sung in the finale by Juliette Schoppmann and the winner Alexander Klaws, who then released it as a single and on his debut album Take Your Chance . The single was sold over a million times.
For the album For All Times , a new version was released in 2011. In 2015 he wrote for his album Auf auf dem Bühne, get, geht! recorded a big band version together with the Lumberjack Big Band . Klaws also sings the song as a rock and reggae version at concerts .
The reviews of the song range from “soulful ballad” to “smacky lines”.
Allegations of plagiarism
Soon after the publication, allegations of plagiarism were raised against Dieter Bohlen. He copied Take Me Tonight from Ciao Ciao Bambina from Domenico Modugno . Christian Bruhn also expressed the suspicion in the MusikWoche . In an analysis by Professor Paul W. Hertin , he came to the conclusion that the melody "of 19 notes, 17 notes ... are absolutely identical in terms of plagiarism". In terms of the arrangement of the melody, the song also adheres almost slavishly to Modugno's model. The two songs are therefore also used as a university example.
Chart placements
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 2003 | Take Me Tonight Take Your Chance |
DE1  × 5
(14 weeks)DE |
AT2  (17 weeks)AT |
CH1 (14 weeks)CH |
First published: March 14, 2003
Sales: + 1,000,000 |
Web links
- Take Me Tonight at mediabiz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerda Naumann: Alexander Klaws Lieder: Best Of. schlagerplanet.com, July 8, 2013, accessed April 2, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/alexander-klaws-auf-die-buehne-verbind-los/hnum/8341319
- ↑ hitparade.ch
- ↑ DSDS degenerates into a circus event Der Stern
- ↑ Bohlen: Also stolen Alex hit? bz-berlin.de
- ↑ Christian Bruhn in an exclusive interview: "Industry is digging its own grave" musikwoche.de
- ↑ Dieter Bohlen - everything just stolen? musiker-online.com
- ↑ Module 2: Is covering legal? Chapter 2.2 Song comparison: a current allegation of plagiarism at folkwang-uni.de
- ↑ Gerda Naumann: Alexander Klaws Lieder: Best Of. schlagerplanet.com, July 8, 2013, accessed April 2, 2019 .
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