I Need You For Christmas
Encyclopedia
I Need You for Christmas is a 2009 Christmas
song by Romania
n female recording artist Inna
. It was written by Play & Win
, who also produced the song. The video premiered in late November 2009, in time for the Christmas and holiday season. An adjacent music video to the song was shot in AFI Palace Cotroceni and debuted in early December. It had became a less successful single in the Eastern Europe
. It is one of the two Christmas songs that Inna brought out in December, 2009, along with her version to "O, ce veste minunată!
" (a Romanian popular Christmas carol).
. She is also making recerences to the Christmas carol
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas
". The song's lyrics also feature Santa Claus
, Christmas Eve
and New Year
. Musically, "I Need You Christmas" is a eurodance/europop
song, that contain bells-like sounds, specific to this special period of the year. The song was written, mixed and produced by Play & Win
(Inna's friends and producers) in their studio, in Constanţa
. A sneak peek to the song premiered on Inna's official website, whilst the whole song debuted on her YouTube
channel, on December 3, 2009. The song was released just as a promotional single in Romania and a radio single in Russia
, but it is more likely to be released as a digital single in France or the UK, once with the 2011 Holidays Season.
) and it was directed by Tom Boxer. It was filmed in less than three hours in one only location. A promotional sneak peek called "Inna and Santa Claus!" premiered on Inna's official internet profiles on the same date with the shooting (December 9) and a day later a making-of to the video was broadcast by PRO TV
.
The video opens with the image of AFI Palace Cotroceni mall decorated for the Christmas
holidays with Christmas lights
and Christmas trees
embellishing the landscape. As the music starts off we are introduced to the characters. Inna
is leading a human chain
as they are ice skating
on the Ice rink
from the mall's first floor, making pirouettes and dancing to the music. A faux
—Santa Claus
(played by a fellow Romania
n actor) enters the party and flirts with Inna. Inna's bichon frise
Bobo also stars in the video, as being hold by Inna and playing. Meanwhile, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan and Sebastian Barac (Play & Win
) are pulling one-another in a shopping cart
. The group led by Inna gets longer and longer as people gather around her, Including band Crazy Win (penned by Play & Win, whos soloist Sore became a star in Romania afterwards) and other friends. In the end they are all posing like for a Christmas card
.
The video premiered on MTV
on December 12, 2009. The same date the video debuted on her official YouTube channel and on Inna.ro. On YouTube, the video earned over 100,000 views in 2009 (due to the Season) and has gained over 2,000,000 views so far, as of November, 2011.
The video features a few special effects. It was called "Christmas-partying and having fun at the mall".
. In Russia, the song entered the TopHit Airplay Chart and peaked at number 146 on December 28, 2009. In the United Kingdom
it was announced that it entered the top 200 extension at number one hundred ninety-eight. For the 2011-2012 season the song has re-entered the UK Singles Chart
and the Romanian Top 100
at lower positions but it is expected to rise up.
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
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 female 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...
. It was written by 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...
, who also produced the song. The video premiered in late November 2009, in time for the Christmas and holiday season. An adjacent music video to the song was shot in AFI Palace Cotroceni and debuted in early December. It had became a less successful single in the Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. It is one of the two Christmas songs that Inna brought out in December, 2009, along with her version to "O, ce veste minunată!
O, ce veste minunata!
O, ce veste minunată is a Christmas carol, sung primarily in Romanian-speaking communities and countries. Like many other traditional songs, there are umpteen versions of it. E.g...
" (a Romanian popular Christmas carol).
Background
"I Need you for Christmas" premiered on Inna's official website. It is a Christmas song. Lyrically, the song describes how Inna needs her lover for Christmas, she "doesen't need no presents, as she needs". In the second verse, she's saying "after that we're making a party", that describes the joyness of the Winter HolidaysWinter Holidays
Winter Holidays is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and Giuliano Carnimeo , based on story by Oreste Biancoli...
. She is also making recerences to the Christmas carol
Christmas carol
A Christmas carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.-History:...
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England. The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition where wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to the carolers on Christmas Eve such as 'figgy...
". The song's lyrics also feature Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...
, Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...
and New Year
New Year
The New Year is the day that marks the time of the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the specific calendar used is incremented. For many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner....
. Musically, "I Need You Christmas" is a eurodance/europop
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
song, that contain bells-like sounds, specific to this special period of the year. The song was written, mixed and produced by 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 friends and producers) in their studio, in Constanţa
Constanta
Constanța is the oldest extant city in Romania, founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the region....
. A sneak peek to the song premiered on Inna's official website, whilst the whole song debuted on her YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channel, on December 3, 2009. The song was released just as a promotional single in Romania and a radio single in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, but it is more likely to be released as a digital single in France or the UK, once with the 2011 Holidays Season.
Music Video
An accompanying music video for the song was shot on December 9, 2009 in the AFI Palace Cotroceni mall (located in the northern BucharestBucharest
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 it was directed by Tom Boxer. It was filmed in less than three hours in one only location. A promotional sneak peek called "Inna and Santa Claus!" premiered on Inna's official internet profiles on the same date with the shooting (December 9) and a day later a making-of to the video was broadcast by PRO TV
Pro TV
Launched in December 1995, Pro TV reaches almost 99% of Romania’s 21.5 million people and has 48% of its broadcast schedule comprising locally-produced programs...
.
The video opens with the image of AFI Palace Cotroceni mall decorated for the Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
holidays with Christmas lights
Christmas lights
Christmas lights are lights used for decoration around Christmas. The use of decorative, festive lighting during the Christmas holiday season is a long standing tradition in many Christian cultures, and has been adopted as a secular practice in a number of other non-Christian, or predominantly...
and Christmas trees
Christmas tree
The Christmas tree is a decorated evergreen coniferous tree, real or artificial, and a tradition associated with the celebration of Christmas. The tradition of decorating an evergreen tree at Christmas started in Livonia and Germany in the 16th century...
embellishing the landscape. As the music starts off we are introduced to the characters. 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...
is leading a human chain
Human chain
A human chain is a form of demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of political solidarity.The number of demonstrators involved in a human chain is often disputed; the organizers of the human chain often report higher numbers than governmental authorities.Notable human chains, in...
as they are ice skating
Ice skating
Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...
on the Ice rink
Ice rink
An ice rink is a frozen body of water and/or hardened chemicals where people can skate or play winter sports. Besides recreational ice skating, some of its uses include ice hockey, figure skating and curling as well as exhibitions, contests and ice shows...
from the mall's first floor, making pirouettes and dancing to the music. A faux
Faux
'Faux is a French word for "false".When manufacturing faux objects or materials, an attempt is often made to create products which will resemble the imitated items as closely as possible...
—Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...
(played by a fellow 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 actor) enters the party and flirts with Inna. Inna's bichon frise
Bichon Frisé
A Bichon Frise , is a small breed of dog of the Bichon type. They are popular pets, similar in appearance to, but larger than, the Maltese.-Etymology and History:...
Bobo also stars in the video, as being hold by Inna and playing. Meanwhile, Radu Bolfea, Marcel Botezan and Sebastian Barac (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...
) are pulling one-another in a shopping cart
Shopping cart
A shopping cart is a cart supplied by a shop, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping...
. The group led by Inna gets longer and longer as people gather around her, Including band Crazy Win (penned by Play & Win, whos soloist Sore became a star in Romania afterwards) and other friends. In the end they are all posing like for a Christmas card
Christmas card
A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to the Christmas and holiday season. Christmas cards are usually exchanged during the weeks preceding Christmas Day by many people in Western...
.
The video premiered on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
on December 12, 2009. The same date the video debuted on her official YouTube channel and on Inna.ro. On YouTube, the video earned over 100,000 views in 2009 (due to the Season) and has gained over 2,000,000 views so far, as of November, 2011.
The video features a few special effects. It was called "Christmas-partying and having fun at the mall".
Chart performance
"I Need You For Christmas" became a moderate airplay success, only peaking at number ninety-seven on the Romanian Top 100Romanian 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....
. In Russia, the song entered the TopHit Airplay Chart and peaked at number 146 on December 28, 2009. 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...
it was announced that it entered the top 200 extension at number one hundred ninety-eight. For the 2011-2012 season the song has re-entered the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
and 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 lower positions but it is expected to rise up.
Charts
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| 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.... |
97 |
| Russian Airplay Chart | 146 |
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Romania (Bubbling Under Top 100 Airplay 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.... ) |
14 |
| UK Bubbling Under Top 100 Singles (The Official Charts Company) | 88 |