| She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) | |
| Cover: | She Wolf(FallingtoPieces).jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | David Guetta featuring Sia |
| Album: | Nothing but the Beat 2.0 |
| Released: | 21 August 2012 |
| Length: | 3:42 |
| Chronology: | David Guetta |
| Prev Title: | Laserlight |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Title: | Rest of My Life |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
"She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)" is a song by French DJ and music producer David Guetta, featuring vocals from Australian singer Sia. It was released as the lead single from the re-release of Nothing But the Beat, 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.[1]
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 Beatport, on August 7, 2012.[2] The official release then followed on August 21, 2012, before the track was issued in the form of CD single and 12" vinyl in Germany on August 24, 2012.[3] The single was released in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2012, on the date of the album's release. It peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Chart. Although this song failed to chart the US Billboard Hot 100, it topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, making it Guetta's seventh number-one on the chart.
On September 21, 2012, a lyric video for the track was uploaded to Guetta's official VEVO channel.[4] On September 26, 2012, a trailer for the music video was released, with an official premiere date of October 3, 2012, revealed.[5] The official video for the track was uploaded to Guetta's official VEVO channel five days earlier on September 28, 2012.[6]
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 computer simulated reality. At the end of the music video, the canine then transforms back into the naked woman at the start.
The video was shot on-location in Iceland, at Langjökull, and at Reykjanes, in Krýsuvík and near Reykjanesviti.[7]
The music video, in France, was broadcast with a warning Not advised for kids under 10 years (in French : déconseillé aux moins de 10 ans) following explosion scenes, blood, violence and nudity than its content, although some channels broadcast it only blurring or without blurring and without warning.
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a mixed review stating:
After a global conquering hook-up with Flo Rida she's returned to where it all began with David Guetta, who'll be hoping that lightning strikes twice after the spectacular and chart-topping 'Titanium'. Once again, it's the heartfelt lyrics that shine over the handbag house 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.[8]
| Brazil (Billboard Hot 100 Airplay)[9] | 43 |
|---|---|
| Brazil (Brasil Hot Pop Billboard) | 12 |
| Iceland (Tonlist)[10] | 16 |
| Lebanon (The Official Lebanese Top 20)[11] | 13 |
| Luxembourg (Billboard)[12] | 5 |
| Portugal (Billboard)[13] | 4 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100)[14] | 94 |
| Spain (PROMUSICAE)[15] | 13 |
| Venezuela (Record Report)[16] | 93 |
| Position | ||
| Australia (ARIA)[17] | 58 | |
|---|---|---|
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[18] | 34 | |
| Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[19] | 48 | |
| Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)[20] | 38 | |
| France (SNEP)[21] | 31 | |
| Germany (Media Control AG)[22] | 27 | |
| Hungary (Dance Top 40)[23] | 48 | |
| Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[24] | 82 | |
| Italy (FIMI)[25] | 29 | |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[26] | 29 | |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[27] | 45 | |
| Russia Airplay (TopHit)[28] | 134 | |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[29] | 32 | |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[30] | 46 | |
| UK Singles (OCC)[31] | 91 |
| Position | ||
| France (SNEP)[32] | 153 | |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[33] | 135 | |
| Russia Airplay (TopHit)[34] | 23 | |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[35] | 77 | |
| Ukraine Airplay (TopHit)[36] | 80 | |
| US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[37] | 41 |
| France[38] | August 21, 2012 | Digital download | EMI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway[39] | ||||
| United States | ||||
| Germany[40] [41] | August 24, 2012 | |||
| France[42] [43] | September 3, 2012 | |||
| Italy[44] [45] | September 9, 2012 | |||
| United Kingdom[46] [47] | September 10, 2012 | |||
| United States[48] | January 8, 2013 | Mainstream radio |