| "Club Rocker" | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Inna featuring Flo Rida | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album I Am the Club Rocker | ||||||||||||||||||
| Released | May 30, 2011 | |||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | |||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2010; Play & Win Studios (Constanta, Romania) | |||||||||||||||||
| Genre | electro house, electro hop (with Flo Rida) electro house, house (without Flo Rida) |
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| Length | 3:33 | |||||||||||||||||
| Label | Roton, Ultra | |||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan | |||||||||||||||||
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"Club Rocker'" is a song by Romanian recording artist Inna. The song is included on her second full length studio album, entitled I Am The Club Rocker!. "Club Rocker" is the second single from the album, whilst in Western Europe it will serve as the lead single, after "Sun Is Up" being included on the re-release of her debut album "Hot". After many months of speculation, it was revealed by Inna via her website that her new single was entitled "Club Rocker". The song premiered on May 30, 2011 at 0:33 (GMT-1).[1] A music video for the song was shot in May, 2011.
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Inna announced, during a show at Fun Radio in France, that this certain song will be her future single, to be released in four of five months, as of mid-December, 2010. This song is quite different than her last singles, opting for a more British sound. On March 13, Inna tweeted that she loves her new single.[2] "Club Rocker" samples the chorus from Bass Attitude's "Seight". It premiered on May 30, 2011 at 0:30 (Romania's hour) via Facebook and YouTube. "Club Rocker" is a song which lasts 3 minutes and thirty-three seconds. Lyrically, the song has a party atmosphere, Inna confessing her "party animal" behavior as she can "make love automatic" while being "ecstatic".[3]
Inna performed "Club Rocker" for the first time in Bucharest during her INNA: Live la Arenele romane concert on May 17, 2011.[4] Inna will promote the new single in France, appearing live on Fun Radio on May 30. On the same date, she will also perform "Club Rocker" live on Cauet (NRJ Radio)[5][6] Inna confirmed she will perform "Club Rocker" at Starfloor 2011 at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy.[7] Inna have also sang a stripped-down version of "Club Rocker" while on the set of the video. She posted a video of her singing on YouTube.[8] She recorded the acoustic version of the song, after performing it on Europa FM's garage concert in June. The song was also performed in the United Kingdom during the Party in the Park festival in Leeds and in the London gay club Heaven. Inna sang it in Beirut, during the NRJ Music Tour. On November 26, 2011 Inna performed the song live at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France during Starfloor 2011. She was wearing a sequin dress and 10 inches high heels. The song was performed as a closing act of an eight-minute show during the event.
Inna announced that she is drawing a special casting call for a new music video. The winner was to be determined after downloading Internet Explorer 9 and answering a few questions about Inna.[9] A number of more than 10,000 fans were pending for the results.On January 5, 2011, it was announced via Facebook that Cristea Constantin was the great winner. On January 25, 2011, Romanian socialite and model Natalia Mateuţ stated that she took part in the castings for Inna's new music video, but she did not accept the role, because it involved a bare naked photo shooting with her.[10] The music video was filmed in early May in Bucharest and Braşov.[11] The director was Alex Herron, who directed Inna's previous music video - "Sun is Up" and the director of photography was Maz Makhani, who have previously worked with Enrique Iglesias and Lady Gaga.[12] The video was shot in two part: the first one in a Gas station in Bucharest and the second one was shot on the highway to Braşov.[12] Mihai Leu drives Inna's car, which takes part in a car racing rally.[12] A snippet of the video, showing Inna singing a striped-off version of "Club Rocker" was posted on her YouTube channel.[8] The video was uploaded on the official You Tube account of the artist on June 27, 2011.[13]
The video begins with some girls fixing some cars while in an Auto service center settled in Bucharest, Romania. Inna emerges down from a black car, wearing a black leather bolero, blue jeans panties and lace high-heel boots. She then appears texting on her phone to another service guy. We figure that she was tweeting from her account (inna_ro)to Thomas11. She giggles and then she is showed waving a tissue, so a Car rally can start. The next scene is stetted inside a car driven by Inna wearing a grey leather jacket. As the chorus kicks off, she and three other back-up dancers are shown in a dark elevator. The plot moves to a hangar where Inna chenges her clothes. In a black party dress, Inna sings behing a lion's cage. As the lion roars, the chorus start once again and Inna's male dancer are shown dancing round a boxing ring. When the bridge begins, Inna is surrounded by couples kissing and making out. Fireworks are blown out. The band Play & Win, Inna's producers, are shown playing a Yamaha keyboard and a b-boy is dancing in front of the crowd. Inna then hooks up with "Thomas11" and the video switches to the human pyramid, then the image and the sound fade away.
The critics praised the video upon its release (having a sneak peek). Most critics analogized the video to Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" (for its opening), to Rihanna's "Shut Up And Drive" (for the premise, main theme and some features) and to both Kylie Minogue's "All the Lovers" and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (for the human pyramid scene). The music video ws nominated for "Best Video" at the 2011 Romanian Music Awards, that took place on September 16, 2011 at Braşov. It lost to Andreea Bănică's video for "Sexy".
The version played in the music video neither features Flo Rida's appearance nor his rapping.
After its release on iTunes in France on May 30, 2011, "Club Rocker" entered the French iTunes chart, but only reaching number twenty-seven. On June 4, 2011, the song debuted on the official French Singles Chart at number fifty-three, becoming her first single not to debut within the top ten. After weeks of moving back and forward without managing to outperform its debut position, "Club Rocker" climbed thirty-five places to number thirty-two on August 27, 2011, reaching its highest peak to date. It has also made it to the Top 100 Airplay Charts in Russia, Czech Republic and Slovakia, peaking at number thirty-eight, number thirty-nine and number eleven respectively.
In Inna's homecountry Romania, "Club Rocker" debuted on the Romanian Top 100 at number forty-three on July 10, 2011, being the highest new-entry of the week. It peaked at number forty-two on the following week, becoming her lowest charting single there. It only spent nine weeks on the Romanian Top 100.
| Charts (2011) | Peak position |
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| Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[17] | 36 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 40 Wallonia)[18] | 29 |
| Czech Republic (IFPI)[19] | 39 |
| Denmark (Tracklisten)[20] Version with Flo Rida |
26 |
| France (SNEP)[21] | 32 |
| Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100)[22] Version with Flo Rida |
79 |
| Poland (Dance Top 50)[23] | 16 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100)[24] | 42 |
| Russia (Russian TopHit 100)[25] | 38 |
| Slovakia (IFPI)[26] | 11 |
| Region | Date | Format | Label |
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| Spain[27] | May 30, 2011 | Airplay | UMG Spain |
| France[28] | Digital download | Roton Romania | |
| Romania | Airplay, digital download | ||
| United States[29] | July 26, 2011 | Digital Download | Ultra Records |
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