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Finish Line (Yasmin song)

"Finish Line"
A portrait in black, white and pink, featuring English singer Yasmin posing in front of a bold, pink-coloured 'Y!'. She is wearing a matching black jacket and pants with a pink shirt underneath in addition to a winter headpiece on her head. To her right stands 'YASMIN_FINISH LINE'.
Single by Yasmin
Released 8 May 2011
Format
Recorded 2011
Genre
Length 3:59
Label Ministry of Sound
Writer(s) Yasmin Shahmir
Producer(s)
Yasmin singles chronology
"On My Own"
(2011)
"Finish Line"
(2011)
"Young Guns"
(2011)

"Finish Line" is a song recorded by British artist Yasmin. Self-written, produced by Labrinth and co-produced by Marc Williams and featuring a sample from the Stevie Wonder song "As". The song was released on 8 May 2011 as Yasmin's second single.

"It was the first song that I made where I really felt like I'd found my own sound and who I wanted to be as an artist. It's a really important song in my career, it's really important to me and got a lot of people interested in me."

"Finish Line" came about after Yasmin was in studio with her friend, Labrinth in January 2010. The two struggled for eight hours before beginning work on the song. Yasmin originally wrote and composed the whole song acoustically before Labrinth begun production work on it. Yasmin has revealed that it took about thirty minutes for her to write the song. The song was co-produced by Labrinth's manager, Marc Williams. The song resulted in Yasmin becoming Level Entertainment's first signed artist after she played "Finish Line" to the label's co-director and BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter, Twin B.

In mid February 2011, a snippet of the final studio version of "Finish Line" was released onto the internet after Yasmin performed the song live at various gigs. The official radio edit for the song was then uploaded on 14 March 2011. On 20 April, "Finish Line" was A-listed on BBC Radio 1. Remixes of "Finish Line" by Freemasons, Mike Delinquent and Shy FX were also released. In an interview with SoulCulture, Yasmin explained how the Freemasons Remix came about as well as her opinion of the remix:

I suggested the Freemasons when discussing remix ideas with the label and luckily for me the guys loved the song and went right ahead making an incredible floorfiller-esque remix, [...], the guys told me they were so inspired by the track they wanted to do an alternative afterhours chilled out version which I was more than happy for them to do considering the calibre of the uptempo mix. When I finally heard this Afterhours Mix, I was blown away, it's even more magical than I expected. This remix has some of the most beautiful and evoking production I've heard in a long time, reminds me so much of Massive Attack and Portishead, they just really nailed it.


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