Like Lovers Do (song)

"Like Lovers Do"
Single by Madeline Juno
from the album The Unknown
Released February 28, 2014 (2014-02-28)
Genre Pop
Length 03:11
Label Polydor
Writer(s)
  • Madeline Juno
  • Dave Roth
Producer(s)
Patrick Benzner
Madeline Juno singles chronology
"Error"
(2013)		 "Like Lovers Do"
(2014)

Like Lovers Do is the second single of the German singer-songwriter Madeline Juno from her album The Unknown and is part of the soundtracks of the movie Pompeii. It was featured in Unser Song für Dänemark, the German national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Background

Madeline Juno performing "Like Lovers Do" on Unser Song für Dänemark

"Like Lovers Do" was written by the German composers Madeline Juno and Dave Roth, and produced by Patrick Benzner and Dave Roth. The cover, which is completely in black and white, was published on January 17, 2014 on Juno's Facebook page.[1] The Single was released on February 28, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A teaser of the song was released January 23, 2014 on SoundCloud.[2]

During an interview Juno stated that her favourite song is "Like Lovers Do".[3] The song was finished in November 2013 as one of the last of the album. Like Lovers Do is about the hope to find a new love. It stands for a new beginning in contrast to the dark theme of Juno's previous single Error.

Madeline Juno performed "Like Lovers Do" at the German national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest on March 13, 2014 but she did not make it to the second round.[4]

Music video

The first music video of "Like Lovers Do" was filmed on January 29, 2014 at the Semperoper in Dresden[5] and was released on February 14, 2014. This video shows Juno in a black dress in the Semperoper and contains some scenes of the film Pompeii.

The official music video of "Like Lovers Do" was filmed along with the other version in Dresden and was released on March 5, 2014. It was directed by Carina Steinmetz.[6] In the video, Juno wakes up beneath her boyfriend and leaves the house while he is still asleep. Then she walks around while having some flashbacks of their relationship and decides to go back. In the end, both meet in front of the door.

Charts

Chart Peak
position
 Germany[7] 96

External links

References

  1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=701596383204344&set=a.454102264620425.105634.451492831548035&type=1&stream_ref=10
  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/MadelineJuno/posts/737640866248458?stream_ref=10
  3. ↑ Simone Nebelsieck (2014-02-25). "Das Schöne fesselt mich nicht" [The beauty does not thrill me] (in German). Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  4. ↑ "Enttäuschung: Madeline Juno ist ausgeschieden" [Disappointing: Madeline Juno was voted out] (in German). Baden Online. 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  5. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/tino.drowatzky/posts/10202210546257169?stream_ref=10
  6. ↑ http://www.musicload.de/madeline-juno/like-lovers-do/videos/video/21810178_4
  7. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.de/song.asp?artist=Madeline+Juno&title=Like+Lovers+Do
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