Take Over Control

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Take Over Control
Afrojack feat. Eva Simons
publication August 12, 2010
length 3:28
Genre (s) Electro House
text Afrojack, Eva Simons, Ingrid Simons, Mike Hamilton
music Afrojack, Eva Simons
Label Spinnin Records

Take Over Control is a song by the Dutch DJ and music producer Afrojack in collaboration with the also Dutch singer-songwriter Eva Simons . The song was first released on August 12, 2010 in the Netherlands. The text is by Afrojack, Eva Simons, Ingrid Simons and Mike Hamilton.

Music video

Before the official music video appeared, the audio version was released on August 13, 2010 on the Spinnin Records YouTube channel. This had over 26 million views in October 2012, significantly more than the official clip for the song, which was published on October 21, 2010 and only had over 13.5 million clicks in October 2012. In this one initially sees Afrojack driving an Audi R8 , as well as Simons and four other dancers, who are all supposed to represent robots, in a school bus. Then they continue dancing in an aircraft graveyard until they run out of electricity and have to stop. Afrojack arrives and gives them new power to keep dancing. The video was shot by Alex Herron on September 14, 2010 in Los Angeles and Death Valley . An audio version of the title was also published on a third official YouTube channel, which received over 8.5 million views. Adam F and Ian Carey's remixes also received well over 1 million views.

reception

Charts

Take Over Control reached 78th place in Germany, while the song reached 46th place in Austria, 24th in Great Britain, 41st in the United States and twelfth in the Netherlands. In 2010 the title was 81st in the Dutch annual charts and 74th in the Hungarian airplay annual charts. In Australia, Take Over Control was awarded platinum .

Charts Top ranking Weeks Awards Annual charts (2010)
GermanyGermany Germany 78 2 - -
AustriaAustria Austria 46 7th - -
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 24 7th - -
United StatesUnited States United States 41 19th - -
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 12 12 - 81
AustraliaAustralia Australia 17th 19th Platinum record icon.svg platinum -

reception

Bradley Stern from MuuMuse selected "Take Over Control" as the Club Track of the Week and described the song as "a relentless celebration of dirty synthesizers and great beats". Leo Lewis awarded the song with the comment "Above Average" ( German  above average ). One author of Pop On And On described the song as follows: “'Take Over Control' has a massive melody and some hard electro beats, its [sic] unstoppable!” (“ German  , 'Take Over Control' has a powerful melody and some hard ones Electro beats, it can't be stopped! ”).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Take Over Control - Single. In: iTunes Netherlands. Apple Inc., August 12, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  2. SpinninRec: Afrojack ft. Eva Simons - Take Over Control (Official Radio Mix). YouTube , August 13, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  3. kontor: Afrojack Feat. Eva Simons - Take Over Control (Official Video HD). YouTube , October 21, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  4. futuredatarecords: Afrojack ft Eva Simons - 'Take Over Control' (Extended Mix). YouTube , July 22, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  5. futuredatarecords: Afrojack ft Eva Simons - 'Take Over Control' (Ian Carey Remix). YouTube , September 15, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  6. UKFDubstep: Afrojack Ft. Eva Simons - Take Over Control (Adam F Remix). YouTube , September 20, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  7. a b c Chart sources: DE AT UK US NL AUS
  8. a b Sources for annual charts: NL HUN
  9. a b Sources for awards: AUS
  10. Bradley Stern: CLUB TRACK OF THE WEEK: AFROJACK (FEAT.EVA SIMONS) - TAKE OVER CONTROL. MuuMuse, November 2, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .
  11. Leo Lewis: Afrojack ft.Eva Simons - Take Over Control. Retrieved October 31, 2012 .
  12. HIT ALERT! AFROJACK FEAT: EVA SIMONS - TAKE OVER CONTROL. Pop On And On, November 17, 2010, accessed October 31, 2012 .