Club Rocker
Encyclopedia
"Club Rocker'" is an electropop song by Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n recording artist Inna
Inna
Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu , best known as Inna, is a Romanian dance music singer. On November 12, 2008, she released her debut single "Hot", which was produced by Play & Win, a Romanian dance music trio and one of the leading music producers in Romania...

. The song is included on her second full length studio album, entitled I Am The Club Rocker!. "Club Rocker" will serve as the third single from the album, whilst in Western Europe it will serve as the lead single, after "Sun Is Up
Sun is Up
"Sun Is Up" is a song by Romanian recording artist Inna from her second studio album, I Am the Club Rocker. In the United Kingdom, the song will serve as Inna's fifth single to be taken from her debut album, Hot. The song was written and produced by Play & Win and was officially sent to Romanian...

" being included on the re-release of her debut album "Hot
Hot (Inna album)
- Weekly charts :- Certifications :- Year-end charts :*"Very Hot" Version-All-time charts:- Release history :...

". After many months of speculation, it was revealed by Inna via her website that her new single was entitled "Club Rocker". The song premiered on May 30, 2011 at 0:33 (GMT-1). A music video for the song was shot in May, 2011.

Background

Inna
Inna
Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu , best known as Inna, is a Romanian dance music singer. On November 12, 2008, she released her debut single "Hot", which was produced by Play & Win, a Romanian dance music trio and one of the leading music producers in Romania...

 announced, during a show at Fun Radio
Fun Radio
Fun Kids is a British children's digital radio station in the United Kingdom and children's website, currently the Sony and Arqiva Digital Radio Station of the year. It is operated by Children's Radio UK Ltd which is owned by Folder Media...

 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, that this certain song will be her future single, to be released in four of five months, as of mid-December, 2010.
This song is quite different than her last singles, opting for a more British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 sound.
On March 13, Inna tweeted that she loves her new single.
"Club Rocker" samples the chorus from Bass Attitude's "Seight".
It premiered on May 30, 2011 at 0:30 (Romania's hour) via Facebook
Facebook
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 and YouTube
YouTube
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. "Club Rocker" is a synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 up-tempo song which lasts 3 minutes and thirty-three seconds. Lyrically, the song has a party atmosphere, Inna confessing her "party animal" behavior as she can "make love automatic" while being "ecstatic".

Live performances

Inna performed "Club Rocker" for the first time in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 during her INNA: Live la Arenele romane
INNA: Live la Arenele romane
INNA: Live la Arenele Romane was the first major headlining concert show held by Romanian dance performer Inna. The concert was held at the Arenele Romane , a old-time Romanian shows venue in the Carol Park from Bucharest. The concert was sponsored by FHM music alongside Vodafone Romania...

 concert on May 17, 2011. Inna will promote the new single in France
France
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, appearing live on Fun Radio
Fun Radio (France)
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 on May 30. On the same date, she will also perform "Club Rocker" live on Cauet (NRJ Radio
NRJ Radio
NRJ French multimedia group based in Paris. Since its foundation in 1981 as a French pop music radio station it has grown and evolved to become the NRJ Group...

)
Inna confirmed she will perform "Club Rocker" at Starfloor 2011 at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Opened in 1984, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, often abbreviated as POPB or Bercy, is an indoor sports arena on boulevard de Bercy located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris...

.
Inna have also sang a stripped-down version of "Club Rocker" while on the set of the video. She posted a video of her singing on YouTube
YouTube
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.
She recorded the acoustic version of the song, after performing it on Europa FM's garage concert in June. The song was also performed in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 during the Party in the Park
Party in the Park
Party in the Park is the generic name given to music concerts organised by various radio stations and local authorities in England and Wales, typically in large parks during the summer.-Leeds' Party in the Park:...

 festival in Leeds
Leeds
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 and in the London
London
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 gay club Heaven. Inna sang it in Beirut
Beirut
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, during the NRJ Music Tour. On November 26, 2011 Inna performed the song live at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Opened in 1984, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, often abbreviated as POPB or Bercy, is an indoor sports arena on boulevard de Bercy located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris...

 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France
France
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 during Starfloor 2011. She was wearing a sequin dress and 10 inches high heels. The song was performed as a closing act of an eight-minute show during the event.

Music video

Inna announced that she is drawing a special casting
Casting
In metalworking, casting involves pouring liquid metal into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowing it to cool and solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process...

 call for a new music video. The winner was to be determined after downloading Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer 9
Windows Internet Explorer 9 is the current version of the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft. It was released to the public on March 14, 2011 at 21:00 PDT. Internet Explorer 9 supports several CSS 3 properties, embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System, and...

 and answering a few questions about Inna. A number of more than 10,000 fans were pending for the results.On January 5, 2011, it was announced via Facebook
Facebook
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 that Cristea Constantin was the great winner. On January 25, 2011, Romanian socialite
Socialite
A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....

 and model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 Natalia Mateuţ stated that she took part in the castings for Inna's new music video, but she did not accept the role, because it involved a bare naked photo shooting with her. The music video was filmed in early May in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 and Braşov
Brasov
Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....

. The director was Alex Herron, who directed Inna's previous music video - "Sun is Up
Sun is Up
"Sun Is Up" is a song by Romanian recording artist Inna from her second studio album, I Am the Club Rocker. In the United Kingdom, the song will serve as Inna's fifth single to be taken from her debut album, Hot. The song was written and produced by Play & Win and was officially sent to Romanian...

" and the director of photography was Maz Makhani, who have previously worked with Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...

 and Lady Gaga
Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

. The video was shot in two part: the first one in a Gas station in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 and the second one was shot on the highway to Braşov
Brasov
Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....

. Mihai Leu
Mihai Leu
Mihai Leu also known as Michael Loewe is a Romanian former professional boxer who lived and fought out of Hamburg, Germany. He is the former WBO Welterweight Champion....

 drives Inna's car, which takes part in a car racing rally. A snippet of the video, showing Inna singing a striped-off version of "Club Rocker" was posted on her YouTube
YouTube
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 channel. The video was uploaded on the official You Tube account of the artist on June 27, 2011.

The video begins with some girls fixing some cars while in an Auto service center settled in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. Inna emerges down from a black car, wearing a black leather bolero, blue jeans panties and lace high-heel boots. She then appears texting on her phone to another service guy. We figure that she was tweeting from her account (inna_ro)to Thomas11. She giggles and then she is showed waving a tissue, so a Car rally can start. The next scene is stetted inside a car driven by Inna wearing a grey leather jacket. As the chorus kicks off, she and three other back-up dancers are shown in a dark elevator. The plot moves to a hangar where Inna chenges her clothes. In a black party dress, Inna sings behing a lion's cage. As the lion roars, the chorus start once again and Inna's male dancer are shown dancing round a boxing ring. When the bridge begins, Inna is surrounded by couples kissing and making out. Fireworks are blown out. The band Play & Win
Play & Win
Play & Win is a Romanian songwriter and music producer trio formed in 2000 by Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan and Sebastian Barac.The band is first known as a leading production team having more than 400 songs to their credit, registered at the Union of Composers in Romania...

, Inna's producers, are shown playing a Yamaha
Yamaha
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 keyboard and a b-boy is dancing in front of the crowd. Inna then hooks up with "Thomas11" and the video switches to the human pyramid
Human pyramid
A human pyramid is a type of gymnastic formation in which the participants kneel together in a row or other formation, forming a base for another tier of participants who stand or kneel on their shoulders, backs or thighs. A human pyramid is very difficult to make. In case that the participants...

, then the image and the sound fade away.

The critics praised the video upon its release (having a sneak peek). Most critics analogized the video to Taio Cruz
Taio Cruz
Taio Cruz is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper, and entrepreneur. In 2008, he released his debut album Departure, which Cruz wrote, arranged and produced himself. It achieved initial success in the UK and earned him a MOBO Award nomination...

's "Dynamite" (for its opening), to Rihanna
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...

's "Shut Up And Drive
Shut Up and Drive
"Shut Up and Drive" is the title of two songs by different artists:* "Shut Up and Drive" , a 1997 single* "Shut Up and Drive" , a 2007 single...

" (for the premise, main theme and some features) and to both Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

's "All the Lovers
All the Lovers
"All the Lovers" is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It is the first single from her eleventh studio album, Aphrodite. "All the Lovers" was written by English electropop duo Kish Mauve and was one of the last songs to be recorded for the album. Minogue chose the song as the...

" and Lady Gaga
Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

's "Born This Way
Born This Way (song)
"Born This Way" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga, from her second studio album, Born This Way. Written and produced by Gaga, Fernando Garibay, Jeppe Laursen and DJ White Shadow, "Born This Way" was developed while Gaga was on the road with The Monster Ball Tour...

" (for the human pyramid scene). The music video ws nominated for "Best Video" at the 2011 Romanian Music Awards
MTV Romania Music Awards
The MTV Romania Music Awards have been held since 2002 celebrating Romanian music. Recipients of the awards have been Eurovision contestants and some have gone on to represent Romania in the competition. The awards are usually held in June. Since 2008 the show was cancelled...

, that took place on September 16, 2011 at Braşov
Brasov
Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....

. It lost to Andreea Bănică's video for "Sexy".

The version played in the music video neither features Flo Rida
Flo Rida
Tramar Dillard , better known by his stage name Flo Rida , is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He released his debut album, Mail on Sunday, in March 2008. His debut single "Low", featuring T-Pain, was a #1 hit for ten weeks in United States in early 2008. Two other singles resulted from...

's appearance nor his rapping.

Chart performance

After its release on iTunes
ITunes
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 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 on May 30, 2011, "Club Rocker" entered the French iTunes chart, but only reaching number twenty-seven. On June 4 , 2011, the song debuted on the official French Singles Chart at number fifty-three, becoming her first single not to debut within the top ten. After weeks of moving back and forward without managing to outperform its debut position, "Club Rocker" climbed thirty-five places to number thirty-two on August 27, 2011, reaching its highest peak to date. It has also made it to the Top 100 Airplay Charts in Russia
Russia
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, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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 and Slovakia
Slovakia
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, peaking at number thirty-eight, number thirty-nine and number eleven respectively.

In Inna's homecountry Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

, "Club Rocker" debuted on the Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....

 at number forty-three on July 10, 2011, being the highest new-entry of the week. It peaked at number forty-two on the following week, becoming her lowest charting single there. It only spent nine weeks on the Romanian Top 100.

Track listing

  • "Club Rocker (Radio Version) - Single" digital download
  1. "Club Rocker" (Radio Version) - 3:34

  • "Club Rocker - EP" digital download
  1. "Club Rocker" (Play & Win Radio Version) - 3:34
  2. "Club Rocker" (Play & Win Extended Version) - 4:16
  3. "Club Rocker" (Play & Win Remix) - 4:09

  • "Club Rocker (Remixes) - EP" digital download
  1. "Club Rocker" (Odd Remix Edit) - 3:37
  2. "Club Rocker" (Odd Remix) - 6:06
  3. "Club Rocker" (Allexinno Remix) - 6:22
  4. "Club Rocker" (Adrian Sina Remix) - 4:30
  5. "Club Rocker" (DJ Assad Remix) - 3:39
  6. "Club Rocker" (The Perez Brothers Remix) - 5:17

Charts

> > > > >
Charts (2011) Peak
position
Denmark (Tracklisten
Tracklisten
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)
Version with Flo Rida
26
Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100
Mega Single Top 100
The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales and legal downloads and composed by MegaCharts. It is one of the three official charts, the other two being the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Top 50. The difference is that these charts also include airplay data.The list is...

)
Version with Flo Rida
79
Poland (Dance Top 50
Polish Music Charts
The Polish Music Charts are two official album charts and seven singles charts in Poland, provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . The first, the Top 100, is a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies...

)
Version with Flo Rida
20
Romania (Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....

)
42
Russia (Russian TopHit 100
Russian Music Charts
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)
38

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Spain
Spain
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May 30, 2011 Airplay
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UMG Spain
Universal Music Group
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France
France
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Digital download
Music download
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Roton Romania
Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

Airplay, digital download
United States
United States
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July 26, 2011 Digital Download
Music download
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Ultra Records
Ultra Records
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