| The Art of Love | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by Sandra | ||||||||||
| Released | 23 February 2007 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2006–2007 | |||||||||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||||||||
| Length | 54:44 | |||||||||
| Label | Virgin | |||||||||
| Producer | Jens Gad | |||||||||
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The Art of Love is the eighth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 2007.
The highly anticipated studio album, The Art of Love was released in February 2007, entering the 16th position on the German charts. For the first time, Michael Cretu did not work as a producer for the album, as he was reportedly busy producing his new Enigma album A posteriori. Sandra's management first tried to find producers from the United Kingdom, but Sandra didn't like the idea of leaving her family for a long period of time. Finally, Sandra contacted Michael Cretu's "right hand", Jens Gad, who produced the entire album. Sandra, for the first time during her career, now participated actively in composing and writing the album. Therefore, the lyrics of the songs are more personal, with Sandra revisiting her childhood and all her sad experiences in them. She worked at Gad's studio at nights, returning home to prepare breakfast for her twins, and then sleeping until they would come home from school. Also, for the first time, Sandra revealed her new, sexier look in the promotional pictures shot in New York by Bärbel Miebach.
The track "Casino Royale" is an alternative version of a song originally recorded by Polish singer Edyta Górniak, as "Sleep With Me", and later covered by Canadian electronic music outfit Conjure One. Sandra's own alternative version, titled "Sleep", appears as a bonus track on the CD single release of "The Way I Am". The album contains Sandra's second collaboration with Swiss artist DJ Bobo, a song called "Love is the Price". Her first was on their joint 2006 hit single, "Secrets of Love".
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| "What Is It About Me" | ||||
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| Single by Sandra | ||||
| from the album The Art of Love | ||||
| B-side | "What D'ya Think of Me" "Les qu'est-ce que c'est" "Silencio a mi lado" |
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| Released | 31 May 2007 | |||
| Format | CD single, Digital single | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:54 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Writer(s) | Jens Gad, Sandra, Andru Donalds | |||
| Producer | Jens Gad | |||
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"The Way I Am" was released as the lead single from the album in January 2007 and reached number fifty on the official German Charts. The CD single contains two non-album tracks, "Logical Love" and "Sleep", an alternative version of the album track "Casino Royale".
"What Is It About Me" was released as the second single in May 2007.[1] The song wasn't succes and failed to chart. The song has three B-sides: "What D'ya Think of Me", "Les Qu'est-ce Que c'est" and "Silencio A Mi Lado". The first B-side track appeared on this, Sandra's eighth studio album.[2] The track "Les Qu'est-ce Que c'est" is a French version of "What's Left to Say", and the track "Silencio A Mi Lado" is a Spanish version of "Silence Beside Me".
CD single
Finally, "All You Zombies" was released as a promotional single later that same year.
The album debuted and peaked at number sixteen on the German Album Charts.
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| France SNEP Albums Charts[3] | 159 |
| German Albums Charts | 16 |
| Swiss Albums Top 100[3] | 88 |
| Polish Top 50 Albums[4] | 26 |
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