"The Creeps" is a

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written, performed and produced (with Per Ebdrup) by

Camille Jones Camille Jones (born 25 June 1973) is a Danish pop singer. She is known for her song " The Creeps", written by herself and remixed by Dutch DJ Fedde le Grand, which became a worldwide club hit in the dance scene in 2007. Career Camille Jones ...

, released in 2005 and remixed in 2007 by

Fedde Le Grand Fedde Le Grand (; born 7 September 1977) is a Dutch house DJ, record producer and remixer from Utrecht. Biography In 2006, his single "Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit" reached the top five on the Dutch Top 40, number one in the UK Singles Chart a ...

. The song was the first single of Camille's 2004 album ''Surrender''. Dutch DJ-producer Fedde Le Grand signed the song to his own burgeoning Flamingo Recordings imprint and produced a

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remix. In early 2007, the remix had been picked up by radio stations in the UK and all over

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before it was released on

Ministry of Sound Ministry of Sound or Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio. James ...

on 5 March 2007 in the UK and

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. The remix became a hit on the charts and the clubs as well. In the UK, "The Creeps" reached #7 on the Singles Chart and #1 on the Dance Chart. On 25 July 2008, "The Creeps" was released as a physical and download single in

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through Kontor Records Hamburg. The remix from 2007 was remastered slightly, with new instruments on the chorus, which resemble the trumpets on Fedde Le Grand's remix of "

Let Me Think About It "Let Me Think About It" is a song performed by Danish soul singer Ida Corr and Dutch house DJ Fedde le Grand. It is a remix by le Grand of Corr's original track which appeared on her 2006 album ''Robosoul''. The song features credited vocals by C ...

" by

Ida Corr Ida Corr (born 14 March 1977 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Gambian-Danish singer, songwriter and music producer. Early life Ida Corr was born on the 14th of March 1977 to a Danish mother and a Gambian father in Aarhus, Denmark. Her father was a ...

Music video

There are four official music videos to the song ''The Creeps''. The first video (for the 2005 single) was produced by Mikkel Serup and received a nomination for a

Danish Music Award The Danish Music Awards (DMA) is a Danish award show. The show has been arranged by IFPI since 1989, and was originally called ''IFPI-prisen'' ("IFPI-Award") until 1991, when it changed its name to ''Dansk Grammy'' ("Danish Grammy"). It was chang ...

in 2005. In 2006 the same video was released on the Spanish distributor Blanco y Negro, but with the ''Original Club'' version as background music. The second music video was directed by Marcus Adams and was recorded in an office with dancers/models performing as secretaries, among them Lauren Ridealgh, Stephanie Fitzpatrick and Emma Warton, with choreography by Paul Roberts. The video was inspired by the music video to " Express Yourself" and the movie ''

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''. In July 2008, a new edited version of the second video had been released to German Channels, which contained also a new 2008 version of the remix.

Charts

The 2007 remix by Fedde Le Grand peaked at #7 on the

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Weekly charts

Year-end charts

On 25 July 2008, the single was released as a physical CD, which reached #82 in the Main German Single Charts Top 100 (as of 8 August 2008).

The Creeps (2019 remixes)

In 2019 Spinnin' RecordsThe Creeps (The Remixes) by Camille Jones
at Beatport launched a package containing remixes by

Bingo Players Bingo Players is a Dutch dance and electro house musical project fronted by DJ and record producer Maarten Hoogstraten (). Bingo Players was originally a duo, which included Paul Bäumer, who died from cancer in 2013. After the death of Bäumer, H ...

, Nonsens and JS16.

References

External links

first music video (Original Club Edited)

second music video (Fedde Le Grand Remix) at Ministry of Sound

Behind the Scenes clip at Ministry of Sound
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