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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 #"Escape To The Stars (Radio Version)" – 3:39 #"Lovesongs (They Kill Me) (IAMX Remix)" – 4:53 Digital download #"Escape To The Stars (Radio Version)" – 3:39 #"The Other People" – 3:35 #"Escape To The Stars (Rough Edge Mix)" – 4:13 #"Escape To The Stars (Extended Version) – 4:43 #"Lovesongs (They Kill Me) (IAMX Remix)" – 4:53 CD Maxi #"Escape To The Stars (Radio Version)" – 3:39 #"The Other People" – 3:35 #"Escape To The Stars (Rough Edge Mix)" – 4:13 #"Escape To The Stars (Extended Version) – 4:43 #"Lovesongs (They Kill Me) (IAMX Remix)" – 4:53 #"Escape To The Stars" (Video)

Chart performance

"Escape To The Stars" has been listed for six weeks in two 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 one week. Its highest entry was number 36 in the Germany Singles Top 100.

Charts

Music video

The

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

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for

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, was filmed at the

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in Berlin, Germany in one day. Heavily

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influenced, it draws direct inspiration from the movie

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

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. 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 sitting 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

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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Escape To The Stars 2007 singles Cinema Bizarre songs Songs written by Martin Gore 2007 songs Island Records singles