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"Something About Us" is a song by all-female German pop band No Angels. It was chiefly written by band member Vanessa Petruo along with frequent collaborator Thorsten Brötzmann and Alexander Geringas for the group's second studio album ''Now... Us!'' (2002), and created as a response to what the band felt was intense and sometimes unfair and inaccurate media criticism at the time, predominantly resulting from the clichés and prejudices generally associated with their manufactured band image.〔 Produced by Brötzmann and co-producer Jeo, the uptempo track incorporates elements of both the contemporary R&B and dance-pop genre as well as latin-pop and church music during the ironical bridge. Released as the album's leading single on May 6, 2002 in German-speaking Europe, the record achieved major success by becoming the group's third non-consecutive number-one hit in Austria and Germany within a period of fifteen months. In addition, it reached number three on Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart and number eleven in Switzerland, eventually going platinum. The record was generally well received by contemporary critics, who acclaimed the band for the production and inclusion of self-written material, and was nominated for both a 2002 Top of the Pops Awards and the 2003 ECHO Award for Best National Single — Rock/Pop. The music video for the song was directed by Marcus Sternberg, and won the 2003 ECHO Award in the category Videoclip National. Inspired by the media-critical subtext of the lyrics, the clip features the quintet as printers of the fictional tabloid newspaper called ''Daily Express'', each of them facing rumored page-one catchlines such as alleged bisexuality, incest, and physical aggression. "Something About Us" was performed on several television and award show ceremonies, such as ''Die Harald Schmidt Show'', ''The Dome'' and the 11th ECHO Awards. == Background and release== "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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=VanessaPetruo.tv )〕 Incorporating autobiographical features, it was inspired by Petruo's experiences with the media the year before.〔 "I recalled the past year, the good and the bad times, and I built my own personal résumé," she said about the song's writing process the following year.〔 "I was thinking about the people who never have believed in us and just don't accept that we are true musicians und see ourselves as artists () I just wanted to say: I ''see'' those prejudices and sometimes they hurt but generally we're laughing (away ). That's the essence of the song!"〔 While the band regarded the song an early candidate to become the album's lead single in hopes of breaking away from the stereotyping Europop widely associated with the group through previous singles,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=BRAIN Community )〕 the group's record company Cheyenne Records declared the song too risky for the charts.〔''We LOVE No Angels'' documentary. ''Pro Sieben''. Retrieved on 2007-06-10〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Netzeitung )〕 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 the No Angels additional work on their second longplayer. Although the No Angels premiered the song on ''The Dome 21'' in Stuttgart on March 1, 2002 and a release date was set on March 18, 2002, "2 Get Over You" was eventually shelved in favour of the self-written "Something About Us."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Something About Us」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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