Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Agnes song)
| "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" | |
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| Promotional single by Agnes | |
| Released | September 21, 2011 |
| Format | CD single, digital download |
| Recorded | 2011 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genre | Dance-pop, synthpop, disco |
| Length | 3:46 |
| Label | Roxy/Universal Music |
| Songwriter(s) | Agnes Carlsson, Vincent Pontare, Magnus Lidehäll, Mim & Liv Nervo |
| Producer(s) | Magnes Lidehäll, Vincent Pontare |
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is a song by Swedish recording artist Agnes, released on September 21, 2011 as a promotional single. The song was first heard and revealed as a single during the festival on August 5, 2011 The song is written by Agnes, Vincent Pontare, Magnus Lidehäll, The Nervo Twins and produced by Vincent Pontare and Magnus Lidehäll. A music video for the single release was shot on September 12, 2011 and directed by Mikeadelica.
Already in January 2011, Swedish tabloid Expressen declared the comeback of Agnes with a new single before the summer, this was later audited to "during the summer" and then to "the end of 2011". The numerous delays came to an end when the song "Don't go breaking my heart" first was heard when Agnes performed at the Stockholm Pride Festival, clips of the song then started to thrive on the internet and a release in "early fall" was announced. On August 24 the label announced that the song would be released on September 21, 2011 and the Scandinavian online retailer CDON.com soon after made it possible to pre-order the single. The release dates for the rest of the world will be "released soon" according to Universal Music. In October 2013, two years after the songs initial release, BIP Records and Universal Music revealed the release of the song as a single in France and Belgium.
The track is written by Agnes, her boyfriend Vincent Pontare, Magnus Lidehäll and The Nervo Twins. Lidehäll has also produced the song together with Vincent Pontare.
Agnes herself decided to record the song, and the rest of the album, in Sweden although her huge success with Release Me had open up many opportunities to record it in the U.S. "I thought about that, but found that the music I do - pop, disco, dance music - it's our speciality in Sweden. We have worked with that for so long. In the United States ... sometimes they find that "this sounds supercool", while you, so to speak ... think that we have already done that."
The lyrics is about fear to let anyone get close, to lower our guard when standing face to face with the great love. Agnes herself commented on her writing in a press release from Universal, "I write a lot about love and relationships. For better or worse. I love powerful music, as the music approaches the great feelings, and nothing is bigger than love. It's the greatest thing in the end."
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