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"She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)" is a song by French DJ and music producer
David Guetta Pierre David Guetta ( , ; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and music producer. He has over 10 million album and 65 million single sales globally, with more than 10 billion streams. In 2011, 2020 and 2021, Guetta was voted the number one D ...
, featuring vocals from Australian singer Sia. It was released as the lead single from the re-release of ''
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'', '' Nothing But the Beat 2.0'' and tallies as the album's eighth single overall. It was released via digital download on August 21, 2012.


Background

Prior to its official release on August 21, 2012, an EP of remixes of the track, featuring contributions from Michael Calingham and Sandro Silva, was made available for a short time exclusively via
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, on August 7, 2012. The official release then followed on August 21, 2012, before the track was issued in the form of
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and
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in
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on August 24, 2012. The single was released in the
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on September 10, 2012, on the date of the album's release. It peaked at #8 on the
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. Although this song failed to chart the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, it topped the ''Billboard''
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chart, making it Guetta's seventh number-one on the chart.


Music video


Background

On September 21, 2012, a lyric video for the track was uploaded to Guetta's official
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channel. On September 26, 2012, a trailer for the music video was released, with an official premiere date of October 3, 2012, revealed. The official video for the track was uploaded to Guetta's official VEVO channel five days earlier on September 28, 2012.


Synopsis

The video starts off with a shot of a naked woman, which moves on to a wounded wolf running from a handful of human hunters. It is shown that the wolf is supernatural, as it is able to make the hunters "explode" on every breakdown of the song. The "explosions" depict the hunters and the landscape as composed by tiny polygons, as if everything were part of a
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reality. At the end of the music video, the canine then transforms back into the naked woman at the start.


Location

The video was shot on-location in
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, at Langjökull, and at
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, in
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and near
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.


Critical reception

Robert Copsey of ''
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'' gave the song a mixed review stating:
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'. Once again, it's the heartfelt lyrics that shine over the
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as she confesses: "You hunted me down like a wolf, a predator/ ...I felt like a deer in your lights" with the same inimitable gusto. The result is nothing we haven't heard already, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.


Track listing


Charts and certifications


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Certifications


Release history


See also

* List of number-one dance singles of 2012 (U.S.)


References

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