Torn

Torn
July
publication	April 27, 2007
length	3:22
Genre (s)	Pop rock
text	Simon Triebel
music	Simon Triebel
Publisher (s)	EMI Music Publishing, July edition
Label	Iceland
album	A new day

Zerrissen is a song by the German band Juli . It appeared on their second album Ein neue Tag in October 2006 and was released as a single in April 2007.

Publication and chart placements

Like all songs on the album, Zerrissen was recorded in the Mohrmann Studio in Bochum , where the band worked on the album from November 2005 to July 2006. After This Life (September 2006) and We Both (December 2006) it was the third single from this album. Before the single was released, the band played the song as a musical guest on the Sat.1 program Schillerstraße on April 20, 2007. On April 22, 2007 the musicians - according to Universal as the first German band - performed a virtual talk show in the broadcast LIFE 4U in the Second Life network , for which the five band members were modeled as avatars .

The single Zerrissen was released as a standard and 2-track version:

Standard version

#	title	play permanently
1.	Torn (Album Version)	3:22
2.	Torn (Me + Me Remix)	3:26
3.	Torn (NOHA After So Many Years Remix)	5:11
4th	Torn (Console + Micha Acher Remix)	7:11
5.	July - desktop player	-

2-track version

#	title	play permanently
1.	Torn (Album Version)	3:22
2.	Torn (Me + Me Remix)	3:26

The download version on iTunes appeared with an exclusive further remix:

#	title	play permanently
1.	Torn (Album Version)	3:22
2.	Torn (Me + Me Remix)	3:26
3.	Torn (NOHA After So Many Years Remix)	5:11
4th	Torn (Console + Micha Acher Remix)	7:11
5.	Torn (NOHA Dark Green Remix)	6:01

In the German charts, the song rose to number 15 on May 11, 2007, which was also the highest position, and stayed in the charts for 13 weeks until the beginning of August 2007. This makes Zerrissen one of July's most successful singles in the German charts; only perfect wave (2004; 2nd place), this life (2006; 5th place) and electrical feeling (2010; 12th place) were able to place higher. In Austria, where the song also entered the charts on May 11th, it only reached the highest position on August 3rd and 10th with 22nd place. In Switzerland, the song was not listed in the charts.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	15th (13 weeks)	13
Austria (Ö3)	22nd (25 weeks)	25th

Music video

The official music video for Zerrissen was shot on March 8, 2007 in Berlin. The actor Hendrik Borgmann can be seen as a guest actor . Most of the video takes place against the backdrop of a building with various adjoining rooms. At the beginning, singer Eva Briegel and Borgmann sit in the same room, ignoring each other; then Eva Briegel gets up and goes into the next room. From then on, the two main characters can never be seen together in the same room, but always miss each other when one of them changes room; otherwise you can usually see them with a thoughtful expression on the bed or at the window. In between you can see a room in which the other July band members are busy with activities such as watching TV and playing chess. In the end, Briegel knocks a hole in a wall and climbs through; when she turns around, she sees a green landscape behind her. She enters the landscape and finds herself alone in a meadow with a bare tree.

Contributors

Eva Briegel : Singing Andreas "Dedi" Herd: Bass Jonas Pfetzing: guitar Simon Triebel : guitar Marcel Römer : drums Dave Anderson: piano, keyboard Roland Peil : Percussion Peter Hinderthür: Strings Olaf Opal : Production Oli Zülch: Engineering Michael Ilbert: Mixing Adel Tawil , Annette Humpe , Console , Florian Fischer , Jochen Eickenberg, Micha Acher , Philip Noha, Sebastian Kirchner: Remixes Michael Peterson, Sven Sindt: band photos

Universal Music Domestic Division: Music label Island Records: music label EMI Music Publishing: Music publisher Miraphon Management: artist management Mohrmann-Studio, Bochum: recording studio Maratone Studios, Stockholm: Mixing Aquarium, Berlin: Remixes Hort: artwork

Web links

• Music video on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ July as the first German band in Second Life. Universal Music, April 17, 2007, accessed June 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ July moves into Second Life. Handelsblatt, April 19, 2007, accessed on June 6, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Kirsten Riesselmann: Beam me to July, teleporter! taz, April 24, 2007, accessed June 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} July - Torn. Official German charts, accessed June 6, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} July - Torn. austriancharts.at, accessed on June 6, 2016 . 
6. ↑ July - Torn. hitparade.ch, accessed on June 6, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Video on "Torn". esistjuli.de, March 9, 2007, accessed June 6, 2016 .