No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)

"No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)"
Single by No Angels
from the album Pure
B-side "Venus"
Released April 22, 2003
Format
Recorded 2003, Department Studios
(Frankfurt, Germany)
Genre
Length 3:14
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Perky Park
  • Nik Hafemann
No Angels singles chronology
"All Cried Out"
(2002)		 "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)"
(2003)		 "Someday"
(2003)

"No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" is a song recorded by all-female German pop band No Angels. The song was written by Pete Kirtley and Tim Hawes from Jiant along with Liz Winstanley and produced by Perky Park and Nik Hafemann for the band's third studio album Pure (2003). The mid-tempo pop track incorporates minor pop rock and soft rock elements. Lyrically, it deals with picture-perfect illusions in a relationship.

The song was released as the album's lead single along with a cover version of Shocking Blue's "Venus" on April 22, 2003 in German-speaking Europe. It marked the group's first release without fifth band member Jessica Wahls following her break from the band due to maternity. Contemporary music citics gave the song a generally positive reception. Commercially, "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" was an instant success: It debuted at number-one on the German Singles Chart, the group's fourth single to do so. It also peaked at number ten in Austria and reached number seven on a composite European Hot 100 Singles chart.

The group premiered the song at the Bravo on March 8, 2003.

Background

"No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" was written by Pete Kirtley, Tim Hawes and Liz Winstanley, and produced by Perky Park and Nik Hafemann for the band's third studio album Pure.[1]

Chart performance

"No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" peaked and debuted at number one in Germany.[2] It was their fourth number one single in Germany. Despite this, it fell six places in its second week to number seven. It lasted one more week in the top ten at number eight, before falling eleven places to number nineteen in its fourth week. It managed to last nine weeks in the top 75 meaning it spent the least time in the German singles chart alongside Someday out of any No Angels song from the years of 2001-2003.[2]

In Austria the song reached number ten, making it their sixth and final top ten single.[3] It lasted four weeks in the top twenty, and spent eleven weeks on the Austrian singles chart. In Switzerland, the song had a peak position of number forty-six.[3] As of September 2010, "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" is their third lowest charting single of all time in Switzerland after Disappear and All Cried Out. It spent seven weeks on the Swiss singles chart.

Meanwhile, on the European Hot 100 Singles, the song peaked and debuted at number seven.[4]

Music video

Visuals ín the music video for "No Angel" were inspired by Andy Warhol and his New York studio The Factory (pictured).

The video was directed by German music video director Marcus Sternberg and takes place in a warehouse-type building. Throughout the video, the No Angels are being filmed by topless men, with the exception of Nadja who is filming a topless man. Each of the No Angels have their own scene in the music video: Sandy's is in a narrow hall with lights at either side of her, Vannesa in a tin foil covered room with a dangling light bulb, Lucy's against a grey brick wall, and Nadja's on a chair with one of the men dancing behind her.

During the instrumental of the video, the No Angels are seen throwing silver, inflatable cushions - during live performances of the song, four men would walk onto the stage and do a choreographed dance with them. Towards the end of the video, the No Angels are lined up in black clothes with microphones in front of them, and finish off with a basic dance routine.

Formats and tracklistings

  1. "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" (Radio Version) — 3:12
  2. "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" (Video Mix) — 3:23
  3. "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" (Rock Version) — 3:14
  4. "Venus" (Main Version) — 2:53
  5. "Venus" (House Version) — 3:00

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Pure.[1]

  • Production — Perky Park, Nik Hafemann
  • Vocal production — Nik Hafemann
  • Guitar — Thomas Blug
  • Mixing — Jeo
  • Supervising producer — Nik Hafemann

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[6] 10
European Hot 100 Singles[4] 7
Germany (Official German Charts)[7] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 46

Year-end charts

Chart (2003) Position
Germany (Official German Charts)[9] 73

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
"You Drive Me Crazy" by Daniel Küblböck		 German number-one single
May 5, 2003 - May 11, 2003 		Succeeded by
"In da Club" by 50 Cent

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Pure (Media notes). No Angels. Polydor Records. 2003.
  2. 1 2 "Chartverfolgung / No Angels / Single" (in German). musicline.de PhonoNet. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
  3. 1 2 "No Angel (It's All In Your Mind) > Chart positions" (in German). austriancharts.at Hung Medien. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
  4. 1 2 "Euro Chart Gets 'American' Infusion". billboard.biz. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
  5. ↑ "No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" (in German). Musicload. Deutsche Telekom AG. 2002-08-12. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
  6. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – No Angels – No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  7. ↑ "Musicline.de – No Angels Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  8. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – No Angels – No Angel (It's All in Your Mind)". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  9. ↑ "Top 100 Singles-Jahrescharts (2003)". Offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

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