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Like a Lady

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B-side
  
"I Surrender"

Format
  
CD single, download

Length
  
3:09

Released
  
May 28, 2010

Genre
  
Electropop, dance-pop

Label
  
Starwatch

"Like a Lady" is a dance-pop song performed by German all-female pop group Monrose, taken from their fourth studio album Ladylike (2010). It was written by Risto Asikainen, Zippy Davis, Ercola and Alexander Komlew and produced by German production team Tuneverse. The band's ninth single overall, the track was picked as the album's leading single and proved to be commercially successful upon its release in May 2010, reaching the top ten on the Austrian and German Singles Charts.

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An accompanying music video, directed by Thomas Job, was filmed in Berlin, Germany in May 2010. Well-received, it was nominated for an Echo Award for Best Video (National) in 2011. "Like Lady" was promoted through numerous live appearances, including a high-profile performance on German television show The Dome. Monrose premiered the song on the final episode of the fifth cycle of Germany's Next Topmodel on June 10, 2010.

Music video

The music video for "Like a Lady" was directed by Thomas Job and filmed in the week of May 3, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. It made its debut on May 11, 2010 on the band's official MySpace page and made its official television debut one day later on German music network VIVA's show VIVA Live!.

It was filmed in early May 2010 in Berlin, Germany. It was directed by Thomas Job. The video has got three main sequences with each sequence got a different costume. The first sequences shows the members of the band Senna, Mandy and Bahar sitting in little tubes, performing in black costumes with high heels and shoulder pads made of mirrors. There are also three dancers and also four dragqueens who are performing with the girls in some dance-scenes. In the next sequence the girlgroup is dressed in white outfits with big white shoulder pads. In this sequence they are also dancing with the dancers but with white fluorescent tubes, too. The drag queens are often shown during the video. In the last part the girls are dancing only a few dancing routines behind a curtain. In this scene the members of the girlgroup are wearing black leather outfits with silver rivets.

Formats and track listings

This is the track list of major single-release of "Like a Lady":

CD single (2-track)
  1. "Like a Lady" - 3:09
  2. "I Surrender" - 4:06
Digital single
  1. "Like a Lady" (Louis Carpaccio Remix) - 5:00

Cover versions

  • On September 24, 2010 the trance and house music producer The Real Booty Babes released eight versions of the song.
  • References

    Like a Lady Wikipedia