"Crush" is a single released by Paul van Dyk

Paul van Dyk

Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer...

 in a collaboration with the trance

Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...

 duo, Second Sun.

Music Video

The video starts with a young women in her house picking up & wearing her coat whilst picking up her keys, phone and a piece of paper containing a list whilst looking in the mirror who then leaves but before she does an image of a face starts to appear in the mirror but she leaves before she can notice. She is then seen waiting at the bus stop when the image of a man (presumingly someone she knows who has died, possibly her deceased boyfriend) flashes her then gets on the bus and the man is seen in the mirror and next to her but she is ambiguous to any of this happening. She then goes shopping a first gets a glimpse of this man at the end of the shop and on the TV screen standing next to her but when she looks there is no one there and she shrugs it off. She then travels through the streets and into a photo booth but when the pictures come out the same man is seen in all the photos, this starts to freak her out and she breaks off into a run checking around her cautiously for any sign of this person. He then starts to appear in more than one place all around her until she runs into Paul van Dyk who catches her and asks if she is okay but she is to scared to even answer. Paul then helps her up and she carries on walking her separate way with Paul looking at her with a worried and concerned look on his face. She is now more settled but this changes when his face appears on an advert for Paul van Dyk's record label vandit and she panics and finally reaches her house with the man getting closer with each step, she finally makes it in and she checks if he has gone which he has until she turns around and sees him on the TV which she immediately smashes and looks up into the mirror, at this point the viewer realises that the man is considered to be a doppelganger: a person who is similar but opposite in an alternate universe who had taken the same journey that day!

CD Version

1. "Crush" (Extended Mix)
2. "Crush" (Original Mix)
3. "Crush" (Vandit Club Mix)
4. "Crush" (Hyper Remix)
5. "Crush" (Funk d'void Remix)
6. "Crush" (Video)

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
German Singles Chart	48
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 ...	42