"All Night Long" | |||||||||||||
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Single by Alexandra Burke featuring Pitbull | |||||||||||||
from the album Overcome | |||||||||||||
Released | 3 May 2010 (release history) |
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Format | CD single, digital download | ||||||||||||
Recorded | 2009 | ||||||||||||
Genre | R&B, pop,dance-pop | ||||||||||||
Length | 4:23 (Album Version) 3:48 (Single Version) |
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Label | Syco | ||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Richard Butler, James Scheffer, Louis Biancaniello, Sam Watters | ||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Jim Jonsin, Louis Biancaniello, Sam Watters, Rico Love | ||||||||||||
Alexandra Burke singles chronology | |||||||||||||
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"All Night Long" is a song performed by British singer Alexandra Burke taken from her debut studio album, Overcome (2009). The song was written and produced by production team, The Runaways (Rico Love, Jim Jonsin, Sam Watters and Louis Biancaniello). The single was remixed to feature rapper Pitbull and released as the album's fourth official single in 2010.
For its release as the singer's third single from the album, it was remixed with new instruments and it now features vocals from Miami rapper Pitbull. "All Night Long" also serves as the album's second European single. The song was nominated for BRIT Award for Best British Single.
According to a spread in Look magazine was shot in a Hertfordshire mansion in the UK. The video follows the theme of a pool-side party and amongst the back-up dancers it features circus performers as well as appearances from Pitbull who is featured on the single remix. In one scene Burke is seen with "a mohawk, bejewelled eye-lids and long legs in a leather jock-strap". According to the Daily Mail she asked family and friends to help film the clip using 100 pocket video cameras. The video was directed by Dale Resteghini aka RAGE and premiered on 27 April 2010 through Vevo. Australian TV channel Channel 7 created a new music video for the song which used excerpts from the actual music video and some new parts from Australian dance troupe and winner of Season 4 of Australia's Got Talent, Justice Crew.
Burke performed the new version (minus Pitbull's vocals) on the semi-final of Dancing on Ice on ITV1 on 21 March 2010. and the National Lottery on 5 May 2010. She also performed on Hey Hey It's Saturday, an Australian television show, on 3 June 2010 to promote the single, and the release of the album there.