"Escape To The Stars" is a glam rock song and the second single by German band Cinema Bizarre

Cinema Bizarre

Cinema Bizarre is a band from Berlin. They released their debut album in 2007. Their manager is Lacrimosa singer and songwriter Tilo Wolff. In January 2010, the band announced that they were taking a break and have since said that they will not reform....

, from their debut album Final Attraction

Final Attraction

Final Attraction is the debut studio album by German band Cinema Bizarre. The album features a blend of synth pop, dark electro and rock, and glam rock. The album peaked at #14 on the German Billboards but failed to chart in most other countries. This was the only album to feature Luminor, who was...

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This song features samples from synthpop band Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

's "Everything Counts

Everything Counts

"Everything Counts" was Depeche Mode's eighth UK single and third US single , from the then upcoming album Construction Time Again...

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Track listing

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Escape To The Stars".

2-Track Version

1. "Escape To The Stars (Radio Version)" – 3:39
2. "Lovesongs (They Kill Me) (IAMX Remix)" – 4:53

Digital download

1. "Escape To The Stars (Radio Version)" – 3:39
2. "The Other People" – 3:35
3. "Escape To The Stars (Rough Edge Mix)" – 4:13
4. "Escape To The Stars (Extended Version) – 4:43
5. "Lovesongs (They Kill Me) (IAMX Remix)" – 4:53

CD Maxi

1. "Escape To The Stars (Radio Version)" – 3:39
2. "The Other People" – 3:35
3. "Escape To The Stars (Rough Edge Mix)" – 4:13
4. "Escape To The Stars (Extended Version) – 4:43
5. "Lovesongs (They Kill Me) (IAMX Remix)" – 4:53
6. "Escape To The Stars" (Video)

Chart performance

"Escape To The Stars" has been listed for 6 weeks in 2 different charts. Its first appearance was week 50/2007 in the Austria Singles Top 75 and the last appearance was week 5/2008 in the Germany Singles Top 100. Its peak position was number 36, on the Germany Singles Top 100, it stayed there for 1 week. Its highest entry was number 36 in the Germany Singles Top 100.

Charts

Charts (2009)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	61
German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	36

Music video

The music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for "Escape to the Stars", directed by German director Marcus Sternberg

Marcus Sternberg

Marcus Sternberg is a German music video director.- Biography :Sternberg studied at the International Film School in London and is currently living in Berlin and Buenos Aires. Besides music videos he also directs commercials...

 for Free the Dragon, was filmed at the International Congress Centrum in Berlin, Germany in one day. Heavily science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 influenced, it draws direct inspiration from the movie Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...

 as Strify stated in an interview in German television. Huge parts of the video were 3d-animated and shot in front of the green screen

Green Screen

The Green Screen international wildlife film festival is held annually in Eckernförde, Germany. The festival shows full-length and short nature documentaries about animals in their natural habitat. It is the only festival of its kind in Germany...

. The video starts with an orange sunset in a futuristic town with a lot of towers and the band playing in front of a metallic wall on a bridge. Each member has got a single sequence in a different setting, Yu playing the guitar in a room where the lights are lit, looking like a spaceship, Strify sitiing on the bench of a huge window with a mirror reflection and the town outside. Between those scenes, spaceships and the animated town can be seen. One scene includes a flying object with screens showing the band members, resembling the cover art for the album Final Attraction

Final Attraction

Final Attraction is the debut studio album by German band Cinema Bizarre. The album features a blend of synth pop, dark electro and rock, and glam rock. The album peaked at #14 on the German Billboards but failed to chart in most other countries. This was the only album to feature Luminor, who was...

There are flying advertisement spaces with messages like "Leave Today" or "Adventure of a lifetime". In the end Strify is sitting in one of the spaceships and is seen leaving the planet aiming to the stars. The video premiered on German music television channel VIVA and according to the band the video was finished on the day of its premiere, the band only having seen an offline version before, with the director himself bringing the video to the music channel an hour before getting on air.