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Gotta Tell You (song)

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Released
  
2 June 2000

Recorded
  
1999-early 2000

Length
  
3:22

Format
  
CD single

Genre
  
Dance-pop, teen pop

B-side
  
"Where Dows It End Now" "Can It Be Love"

"Gotta Tell You" is the debut single by Irish singer Samantha Mumba, released in 2000. The song was written and produced by the Swedish team BAG & Arnthor (Anders Bagge and Arnthor Birgisson). It was an international hit, peaking at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 21 weeks on that chart, number one in Ireland and New Zealand, number three in Australia and number two in the UK. The song is Mumba's biggest hit, as well as her signature song. This was also featured on the 2001 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 6.

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Music video

The music video shows Mumba walking, running and dancing around a city and running to catch a plane. It also includes Mumba doing minor stunts which include flipping off a building onto the street and jumping onto and off a moving firetruck. The video was shot in city of Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain.

Track listing

UK CD maxi single
  1. "Gotta Tell You"
  2. "Can It Be Love?"
  3. "Where Does It End Now?"
  4. "Gotta Tell You" (Video)
European CD single
  1. "Gotta Tell You"
  2. "Gotta Tell You" (Sleaze Sisters Mix Edit)
Australian CD single
  1. "Gotta Tell You"
  2. "Gotta Tell You" (Teddy Riley Mix)
  3. "Gotta Tell You" (Basstoy Mix)
US CD single
  1. "Gotta Tell You"
  2. "Gotta Tell You" (Mindchime Dub)

Release history

2 June 2000 (Ireland)
26 June 2000 (UK)
14 August 2000 (AUS)
7 November 2000 (worldwide)

Micky Modelle vs. Samantha Mumba version

Irish DJ Micky Modelle remixed the song in 2008. After Mumba heard the remix, she liked the song and re-recorded some of the vocals. She promoted the song on the Clubland Live Tour in 2008 and it was released on 25 August 2008 through All Around the World Productions. This is the final single to be released from Mumba following her announcement of retiring from music in 2011.

Music video

A video for the song was filmed throughout London and Belfast in May 2008 and was premiered on 13 June 2008. The video features Micky and Mumba in a conference room with various clones of Mumba as various maps of cities in the UK moving around her, with the maps indicating that "Club energy levels are low".

Mumba and the clones of herself go out to the cities clubs where the people in the club start dancing and the club energy levels are restored.

Chart

The song only just made the UK Dance Chart at the lowest position of #40.

References

Gotta Tell You (song) Wikipedia
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