"Requiem for a Hit" is a song by french recording artist Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...

 featuring L.A. Williams. It is the second single from the Miss Kittin's first solo album I Com

I Com

-Personnel:* Florian - vocals* L.A. Williams – rapping* The Hacker - programming, breathing* Miss Kittin - producer, design, synthesizer, drums, vocals, photography, drawing* Thies Mynther - synthesizer, bass, piano, producer...

. Co-written and co-produced by Thies Mynther, Tobias Neumann, it is composed as am electroclash

Electroclash

Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...

 and electropop song, that is a play on the line "I'll Beat that Bitch with a Bat." The song was later included on her 2005 EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Mixing Me

Mixing Me

Mixing Me is a 2005 EP by Miss Kittin to promote her album I Com. Mixing Me contains remixes of I Coms singles.- Critical reception :...

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Critical reception

XLR8R

XLR8R

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said, "From succulent rhymes to seductively sexual appeal, this girl knows well how to live on charts worldwide."

Les Inrockuptibles

Les Inrockuptibles

Les Inrockuptibles is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. The name is a play on "Les Incorruptibles", the French title of the American television series The Untouchables...

placed "Requiem for a Hit" at #38 on the Best Singles of 2004.

Live performances

Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin

Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...

 performed "Requiem for a Hit (2 Many DJ's Remix)" live at the Sónar

Sónar

Sónar is an annual three-day music festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It is described officially as a festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. Music is by far the main aspect of the festival....

 festival and included it on her album Live at Sónar

Live at Sónar

Live at Sónar is the first live DJ mix album by Miss Kittin. For the Sónar festival, Miss Kittin provided impromptu new vocals to her classic catalogue...

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Track listing

1. "Requiem For A Hit (Original Requiem)" - 5:12
2. "Requiem For A Hit (Ge-Gm Mix)" - 6:12
3. "Requiem For A Hit (Requiem For A Buzz)" - 6:00
4. "Requiem For A Hit (Abe Duque Remix)" - 6:29

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak Position
Belgium Dance (Ultratop Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... )	6
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)	92
UK Dance (The Official Charts Company)	11
UK Indie (The Official Charts Company)	26