You Can Win If You Want
| You Can Win If You Want | |
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| Modern talking | |
| publication | March 13, 1985 |
| length | 3:44 |
| Genre (s) | Synthpop , Euro Disco |
| Author (s) | Dieter Bohlen |
| album | The 1st album |
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You Can Win If You Want is a song by Modern Talking from 1985 , written by Dieter Bohlen and released on the album The 1st Album .
history
You Can Win If You Want was released on March 13, 1985. It became a number one hit in Germany (1 week from May 31 to June 6, 1985) and Austria (2 weeks from July 1 to 14, 1985).
With the sale of 250,000 copies, the hit received a gold record in Germany and in France it achieved gold status for 500,000 copies sold.
The song lasts 3:55 minutes in the album version and appeared on almost every compilation album by Modern Talking, but it only appeared as a remix in the albums Remix Album and All The Best - The Definitive Collection . This "Special Remix" was also the official single version and only lasts 3:44. The decisive differences are the shorter structure at the beginning of the song (only 8 instead of 16 bars of the piano theme) and the fact that this remix was recorded 4 BPM faster (108 BPM album vs. 112 BPM single) and thus the pitch was raised ( no master tempo). In addition to the single remix, this faster version was released in an extended "Special Dance Version" on 12 "maxi vinyl. It is not available on the albums Romantic Dreams and We Still Have Dreams - The Greatest Love Ballads of Modern Talking . On the B-side the single is the piece One in a Million (Europe) or Do You Wanna (France) and also the instrumental version on the 12 " . This has the same structure as the album version, but the speed and pitch of the single remix.
In 1998, a remix of the piece of music appeared on the album Back for Good . This mix is 117 BPM fast and was recorded and remixed at the master tempo faster, so that it corresponds in pitch and structure to the album version from 1985.
Music video
The video begins with a shot that shows Anders and Bohlen singing and playing the guitar or piano. In the next scene you see a woman packing a bag, then she walks down the street and is hugged by a man. The couple is taken first by a Mini Cooper and then by a Mercedes truck to a city where they visit a nightclub. After a black and white scene showing a crowd and also the couple, the protagonists fall out. In the following scene, the woman learns about the success of Modern Talkings through a newspaper report and makes her way to the music studio where the pop duo sings the song. She manages to get an autograph from Bohlen. She apologizes to him and Bohlen and Anders drive away in their cars.
During the video shoot, Nora Balling, Thomas Anders's friend, intervened strongly. Originally it was planned, for example, that Anders and Bohlen should drive with two women in one car. Balling prevented this, as did Bohlen and Anders in a car. Some scenes could only be filmed by letting some of them lead the camera.
Cover versions
- 1997: Funker Vogt
- 1998: Interactive
- 1999: Wildecker Herzbuben
- 2002: Guildo Horn
- 2003: Thomas Anders
- 2011: Mark Ashley
- 2016: Thomas Anders
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources for chart placements: DE / AT / CH / US , accessed on March 25, 2010.
- ↑ You Can Win If You Want in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Music video on MyVideo
- ↑ Dieter Bohlen, The Success Story Modern Talking , TV documentary