Shadows (Alphabeat song)

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"Shadows"
Single by Alphabeat
from the album Don't Know What's Cool Anymore
Released1 March 2019
Length2:46
Label Warner Music Denmark
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Alphabeat singles chronology
"Show Me What Love Is"
(2013)
"Shadows"
(2019)
"I Don't Know What's Cool Anymore"
(2019)

"Shadows" is a song by Danish pop group Alphabeat. It was released on 1 March 2019 by Warner Music Denmark as the lead single from their fourth studio album Don't Know What's Cool Anymore . [1] The song peaked at number nineteen on the Danish Singles Chart.

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Background

In an interview with Billboard , Anders SG said: "When our manager heard us demo the song through the wall to his office, he came into the studio and was like, 'What is this? It's great!' This does happen sometimes, but not on a regular basis, so we thought, maybe we're onto something. For some reason the song reminded us a little bit of some of the more melancholy Motown hits like 'Standing In The Shadows Of Love', so we wanted to have a kind of upbeat soul groove together with the pop hooks. 'Shadows' has a kind of signature drumbeat, which we like to think has become a bit of an Alphabeat trademark." [2] When speaking of getting the band back together, vocalist Stine Bramsen says that it was always "written in the stars" that they would join forces once again. [3]

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Shadows" was first released on YouTube on 1 March 2019. [4]

Track listing

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Shadows"2:46

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Denmark (Tracklisten) [5] 19

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Denmark1 March 2019 [6] [7] Warner Music Denmark

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