With Every Heartbeat

Infobox Single
Name = With Every Heartbeat


Artist = Robyn and Kleerup
from Album = Robyn and Kleerup
B-side = "Konichiwa Bitches"
Released = Start date|2007|01|15
(see release history)
Format = Digital download
CD maxi single
12" maxi single
7" single
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Synthpop
Electronica
Length = 4:13 (album version)
3:18 (radio edit)
Label = Konichiwa Records
Island
Writer = Robyn
Andreas Kleerup
Producer = Kleerup
Video director =
Certification =
Reviews =
Chronology = Robyn singles
Last single = "Crash and Burn Girl"
(2006)
This single = "With Every Heartbeat"
(2007)
Next single = Cobrastyle
(2008)Extra chronology
Artist = Robyn
Type = UK singles
Last single = "Konichiwa Bitches"
(2007)
This single = "With Every Heartbeat"
(2007)
Next single = "Handle Me"
(2007)Extra chronology
Artist = Robyn
Type = US singles
Last single = "Show Me Love"
(1998)
This single = "With Every Heartbeat"
(2008)
Next single = "Handle Me"
(2008)Extra chronology
Artist = Kleerup
Type = singles
Last single =
This single = "With Every Heartbeat"
(2007)
Next single = "Longing for Lullabies"
(2008)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate Covers
Background = khaki


Lower caption = UK Single cover Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = khaki

---

Lower caption = UK Promo single cover Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = khaki


Lower caption = US Digital single cover Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = khaki


Lower caption = US 12" Promo cover Extra album cover
Upper caption =
Background = khaki


Lower caption = Belgium Remix cover

"With Every Heartbeat" is the second UK single released from Swedish pop singer-songwriter Robyn's 2007 re-released, self-titled album "Robyn". A collaboration with Kleerup, it was released as a non-album single in Sweden and reached #18.

Background and composition

"With Every Heartbeat" is an electropop ballad. The song runs for four minutes and thirteen seconds in its entire form. It is composed in the key of D major,Cite web |last= |first= |title=With Every Heartbeat |url=http://www.sheetmusicdirect.us/search/productDetail.do?itemId=1000052401 |work= |publisher=Sheetmusicdirect.us |date= |accessdate=2008-04-10] and is set in common time. It has an unconventional pop song structure, with no distinct chorus. The song was composed in Kleerup's living room, where Robyn came up with the song's melody. cite web | url=http://www.sibelius.com/news/press128.html | title=Sibelius scores UK chart No.1 | publisher=Sibelius.com | date=2007-08-20 | accessdate=2008-04-10 ] The string parts were originally arranged by Carl Bagge using Sibelius Software.

Release and reception

A physical single was released in the UK on 6 August 2007. It was named as both Jo Whiley's and Scott Mills's "Record of the Week" and was A-Listed on BBC's Radio 1. Robyn performed the song live on Radio 1 during the "Jo Whiley Show" on 8 August 2007. It also received strong support by Popjustice, who later ranked the single as the best of 2007. [ cite web | url=http://popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2024&Itemid=266 | title=The Greatest Singles of 2007 | publisher=Popjustice | date=2007 | accessdate=2008-04-10 ]

"With Every Heartbeat" was Robyn's biggest hit in the UK, becoming the first number one, second top ten, and fourth top-40 hit of her career. The song charted inside the top five on downloads alone the week before the song's physical release. Athlete, The Hoosiers, and Girls Aloud have covered the song on Radio 1's Live Lounge on separate occasions, with the latter performing it as part of their Tangled Up Tour.

The song was released in the United States in January 2008.

Music video

Two videos were filmed for the song.
Kleerup's version shows assorted scenes of life in New York City, while Robyn's version shows the singer walking among colourful building blocks and board game pawns. Robyn wears her trademark neckscarf and tights, which change colour as the song progresses. The CGI animation moves in sync with the music. The song pans out halfway through the video to reveal that Robyn is miniature and in fact on a desk in Kleerup's studio. On display in Kleerup's studio is a vinyl copy of Barbra Streisand's album "Guilty". The video finishes with the blocks featured in the video tumbling down while Robyn runs away from them.

Track listing

weden single

CD single
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:06
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Meatboys Remix) - 4:24
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix) - 5:58
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Rory Phillips Remix) - 6:07

UK single

7" Single

"Side A"
# "With Every Heartbeat"Side B"
# "Konichiwa Bitches"

12" single

"Side A"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:10
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Tong & Spoon Wonderland Remix) - 7:15"Side B"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix) - 5:19
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Steve Angello Dub) - 7:12

CD promo
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Acoustic Version) - 3:34

CD single
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Radio Edit) - 3:17
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Tong & Spoon Wonderland Remix) - 7:17
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix) - 5:23
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:12
# "Konichiwa Bitches" (Video) - 3:06

German single

12" single (Part 1)

"Side A"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Steve Angello Dub)
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Hugg & Pepp Remix)"Side B"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix)
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Kleerup Remix)

12" single (Part 2)

"Side A"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Corenell Remix)"Side B"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (VooDoo & Serano Remix)

CD single
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Radio Edit) - 3:20
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:15
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Acoustic Version) - 3:37
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix) - 5:25
# "With Every Heartbeat" (VooDoo & Serano Edit) - 6:15
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Kleerup Remix) - 7:07
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Video) - 4:03

Belgium single

CD remix maxi-single
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:13
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Voodoo & Serano Remix) - 6:14
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Corenell Remix) - 6:35
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Kenson Remix) - 7:15
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Tong & Spoon Wonderland Remix) - 7:17
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Hugg & Pepp Remix) - 7:04
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix) - 5:21
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Steve Angello Dub) - 7:13
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Kleerup Remix) - 6:49

U.S. single

12" Promo

"Side A"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Tong & Spoon Wonderland Remix) - 7:15
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Corenell Remix) - 6:33"Side B"
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Voodoo & Serano Remix) - 6:12
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Punks Jump Up Remix) - 5:21
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:13

Digital download
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Album Version) - 4:15
# "With Every Heartbeat" (Tong & Spoon Wonderland Remix) - 7:14

Charts

Personnel

*Music by Robyn and Andreas Kleerup
*Lyrics by Robyn
*Produced by Kleerup
*Violin performed by Johanna Talvelin and Karin Lijenberg
*Viola performed by Ida Nyman
*Cello performed by Cecilia Lione
*Mixed by Eric Wikstroon and Andreas Kleerup at Delorsan
*Published by BMG Music Publishing/Universal Music Publishing

References