"Forever" | |||||||||
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Single by will.i.am and Wolfgang Gartner | |||||||||
from the album Weekend in America | |||||||||
Released | October 9, 2011 | ||||||||
Format | digital download | ||||||||
Recorded | 2011 | ||||||||
Genre | Hip house, electro house | ||||||||
Length | 2:52 | ||||||||
Label | Ministry of Sound | ||||||||
Writer(s) |
will.i.am Wolfgang Gartner |
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Producer(s) | Wolfgang Gartner | ||||||||
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"Forever" is a hip house song by American rapper will.i.am and DJ/Producer Wolfgang Gartner, released as a single on October 9, 2011. The track was released on Gartner's Ministry of Sound record label and is included in his debut album Weekend in America. The track peaked at #43 on the UK Singles Chart and #9 on the UK Dance Chart, on the week ending October 15, 2011. Alternative artwork was released in the UK credited as 'Wolfgang Gartner featuring Will.i.am'.
The music video for the track premiered on June 1, 2011, via the official Ultra Records, a sub-label of Ministry of Sound, YouTube account. The video begins with a number of people dancing in a club. Two of them are showing entering the club toilets and engaging in sex. The scene cuts to will.i.am as a sperm, and continues by showing milestones up to and after his birth. It continues by detailing events in his childhood, before culminating when he is a full-grown adult. The video is three minutes and forty-nine seconds in length. A shortened version was released in the UK lasting two minutes and fifty-four seconds in length. It was released on August 9, 2011.