Something About Us (No Angels song)

"Something About Us" is one out of five self-penned contributions to the Now... Us! album. Vanessa Petruo, songwriter Alexander Geringas, and producer Brötzmann worked on the track during the album's finishing process in the Park Studios in Tutzing, Bavaria. Incorporating autobiographical features, it was inspired by Petruo's experiences with the media the year before. the group's record company Cheyenne Records declared the song too risky for the charts. Instead the label originally intended album cut "2 Get Over U", a duet with UK popstars Hear'Say, as the band's next single with a release around Christmas 2001. However, due to Hear'Say's limited fame in Germany Polydor Records and Cheyenne decided to exclude the band's vocals from the song and moved it back to a spring 2002 launch to enable No Angels additional work on their second longplayer. Although No Angels premiered the song on The Dome 21 in Stuttgart on 1 March 2002 and a release date was set on 18 March 2002, "2 Get Over You" was eventually shelved in favour of the self-written "Something About Us". == Release and reception ==

(pictured). "Something About Us" was premiered on The Dome 21 in Stuttgart on 1 March, and made its television debut on 7 March 2002 at the 11th ECHO Awards in Berlin. Officially released on 6 May 2002, as well as the group's third non-consecutive number-one hit within a period of sixteen months. before climbing to number one the next week. It spent one week on top of the singles charts only, but remained six weeks inside the Top 10 and twenty-one weeks in total. It received a gold certification by the IFPI Austria and was ranked within the thirty biggest-selling singles of 2002. The following week, it jumped to number eleven due to a major increase in sales and radio support, but it would become the band's first single not to reach the Top 10. == Music video ==

An accompanying music video was filmed at the former G+J Berlin Zeitungssdruck printing plant in early April 2002. It marked No Angels' first collaboration with German director Marcus Sternberg who would become a frequent collaborator on subsequent visuals. Production was handled by Bigfish Filmproduktion. Filming took twenty hours. Inspired by its media-critical lyrical subtext, the clip for "Something About Us" features the quintet as overall-dressed printers who work for an all-fictional tabloid newspaper called Daily Express. While they are seen dancing in front of running printing presses throughout most of the video, intercut with face shots and some male dancers, close shots of the paper's pages reveal the background of the page-one catchline "Girlband Shocker": Each of them has to deal with intense media scrutiny, including rumors of alleged bisexuality, incest, depression, and physical aggression, among others. When asked about the substance of the visuals, Jessica Wahls elaborated that "the video is not about certain event [...] but [it is] about how we've felt the past year, [about] what happened to [each of] us and the band." ==Track listings==

Notes • denotes co-producer • denotes additional producer ==Credits and personnel==

Credits taken from Now... Us! liner notes. • Nadja Benaissa – vocals • Thorsten Brötzmann – keyboards, producer, writer • Alexander Geringas – writer • Lucy Diakovska – vocals • Joachim "Jeo" Mezei – co-producer, keyboards, mixing • Sandy Mölling – vocals • Vanessa Petruo – vocals, writer • Jessica Wahls – vocals • Peter Weihe – guitar ==Charts==

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