Club Rocker

"Club Rocker"
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	Electropop, electro hop (version with Flo Rida), house
Length	3:33
Label	Roton, Ultra
Writer(s)	Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan
Producer	Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan
Inna singles chronology
"Sun Is Up" (2010) "Club Rocker" (2011) "Un Momento" (2011)
Flo Rida chronology "Where Them Girls At" (2011) "Club Rocker" (2011) "Good Feeling" (2011) Audio sample file info · help

"Club Rocker'" is an electropop 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" will serve as the third 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.

Background

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 synthpop up-tempo 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]

Live performances

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.

Music video

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.

Chart performance

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.

Track listing

• "Club Rocker (Radio Version) - Single" digital download^[14]

1. "Club Rocker" (Radio Version) - 3:34

• "Club Rocker - EP" digital download^[15]

1. "Club Rocker" (Play & Win Radio Version) - 3:34
2. "Club Rocker" (Play & Win Extended Version) - 4:16
3. "Club Rocker" (Play & Win Remix) - 4:09

• "Club Rocker (Remixes) - EP" digital download^[16]

1. "Club Rocker" (Odd Remix Edit) - 3:37
2. "Club Rocker" (Odd Remix) - 6:06
3. "Club Rocker" (Allexinno Remix) - 6:22
4. "Club Rocker" (Adrian Sina Remix) - 4:30
5. "Club Rocker" (DJ Assad Remix) - 3:39
6. "Club Rocker" (The Perez Brothers Remix) - 5:17

Charts

Charts (2011)	Peak position
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] Version with Flo Rida	20
Romania (Romanian Top 100)[24]	39
Russia (Russian TopHit 100)[25]	38
Slovakia (IFPI)[26]	11

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
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

References

1. ^ ""Club Rocker" released". Twitter. May 29, 2011. http://twitter.com/#!/inna_ro/status/74952306864558080. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
2. ^ "I love my new single!!!". http://twitter.com/inna_ro/status/46707767775473664. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
3. ^ "INNA - CLUB ROCKER LYRICS". directlyrics.com. May 18, 2011. http://www.directlyrics.com/inna-club-rocker-lyrics.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
4. ^ "Inna: "România mă iubeşte!"". Evenimentul Zilei. May 19, 2011. http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/inna-romania-ma-iubeste-930791.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
5. ^ "Retrouvez Inna en direct sur FUN RADIO à 18h Lundi! Elle dévoilera son nouveau single Club Rocker!" (in French). Inna via Facebook. May 29, 2011. http://www.facebook.com/Inna/posts/10150639535325381. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
6. ^ "@Cauet". May 28, 2011. http://www.facebook.com/Inna/posts/10150639538975381. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
7. ^ "Inna premiére Artiste a Participé a Star'Floor, sont nouveau single "Club Rocker" sortira officiellement le 30 Mai prochain !!!!!". Starfloor via Facebook. May 18, 2011. http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=224900020859516&id=167807309909814. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
8. ^ ^{a b} "Inna face vocalize oriunde şi oricând!" (in Romanian). Cancan. May 28, 2011. http://www.cancan.ro/showbiz/showbiz-intern/video-inna-face-vocalize-oriunde-si-oricand-uite-ce-voce-puternica-are-165970.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
9. ^ INNA and IE9 make you a star
10. ^ Natalia Mateut nu vrea sa se dezbrace pentru Inna!
11. ^ "Sexy şi tatuată, Inna repară maşini" (in Romanian). monitorulexpres.ro. May 27, 2011. http://www.monitorulexpres.ro/?mod=monitorulexpres&p=fapt_divers&s_id=101255. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
12. ^ ^{a b c} "Mihai Leu, pilot pentru Inna" (in Romanian). Libertatea. May 27, 2011. http://www.libertatea.ro/detalii/articol/mihai-leu-pilot-pentru-inna-337529.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
13. ^ "MusicNewsTime.Com - Latest Music News". http://www.musicnewstime.com/videos/new-video-inna-club-rocker/. 
14. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/club-rocker-radio-version/id442961396
15. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/club-rocker-ep-single/id450631070
16. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/club-rocker-remixes-ep/id458429521
17. ^ "Ultratop.be – Inna – Club Rocker" (in Dutch). Ultratip. ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
18. ^ "Ultratop.be – Inna – Club Rocker" (in French). Ultratop 40. Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
19. ^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201134 into search.
20. ^ http://danishcharts.com/weekchart.asp?cat=s
21. ^ "Lescharts.com – Inna – Club Rocker" (in French). Les classement single. Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
22. ^ http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Inna+feat.+Flo+Rida&titel=Club+Rocker&cat=s
23. ^ "Dance Chart :: Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. 2011-07-16. http://zpav.pl/rankingi/listy/dyskoteki/index.php?idlisty=476. Retrieved 2011-09-22. 
24. ^ Romanian Top 100: July 17 - July 23, 2011
25. ^ http://www.tophitru.com/russia_weekly.shtml
26. ^ "SNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201128 into search.
27. ^ http://www.facebook.com/Inna/posts/10150621194870381
28. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/club-rocker-radio-version/id438905646
29. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/club-rocker-ep-single/id450631070?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

External links

• Inna - "Club Rocker" (lyric video)