Night Of Your Life

Album: Nothing But The Beat (2011)
Charted: 35 81
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Songfacts®:

  • The third promotional single from David Guetta's fifth studio album, Nothing But The Beat, is a trance track. However, rather than featuring a breathy chanteuse, as is usual for the genre, big-voiced Broadway singer Jennifer Hudson supplies the vocals. "Obviously she's an amazing singer, can do anything with her voice, but it's more a matter of specific things with this type of music to keep the energy up," Guetta told Billboard magazine. "I like surprising the listeners as well as the artists themselves."
  • Guetta told MTV News that recording this track with Hudson proved particularly satisfying. "I was in the studio with her," the French hitmaker said. "To be honest, I didn't know her so well, but I had heard her voice and I fell in love with it. It's a difficult song. You need a really big voice to be able to perform that song. I was like, 'Whoa!' She obviously has an amazing voice, and I think it was a really interesting exercise for her and for me.

    I always love to take singers and take them out of their boxes, and to come with a dance song with her was really exciting. She is beautiful in every way: as a person, as a singer, as a human being. She delivered like crazy."

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