Behind the Scenes: Burned with Desire
“She had a one night stand with a guy…”
Justine and I started in the studio with Justine with the idea: I’d just met with a friend of mine who was back from holiday. She had a one night stand with a guy and they agreed on not falling in love with each other. And in fact she did. She fell in love with the guy and when she went back to see the guy, he already had another girl. And that was literally it: it was rainy day the day after…She was trying to find him and she saw him with another girl and she burned with desire but he left her in the rain. So if you think about the lyrics ‘For each forgotten kiss, for all the memories…You played your part so well, your modern Romeo, You came on Cupid’s wings and then you flew away’ it’s about the empty feeling we all have at some times.
“English is not my native language so we had some fun in the studio; sometimes I say something really stupid. I would find something and I’m like ‘Alright, I want to say this-and-this and she [Justine Suissa] would say ‘uh, right Armin, but you have to word it like this!’ The ‘But you left me in the rain’ was my part, I kept using it-- Justine would sing “Burned with Desire’ and then I would sing ‘but you left me in the rain’ and she’d be like ‘No, no!’ - but finally at the end we added it in”, Armin told us as if telling a good joke. “It was actually written in a few hours. I did the finally chill out mix, we wrote the tune on 138bpm, but I did it half tempo, so it was easy to the Rising Star Remix.”
From: http://trance.nu/v3/interview_show.php?id=150
Interview with Armin Van Buuren
Behind the Scenes: Burned with Desire “She had a one night stand with a guy…”
Justine and I started in the studio with Justine with the idea: I’d just met with a friend of mine who was back from holiday. She had a one night stand with a guy and they agreed on not falling in love with each other. And in fact she did. She fell in love with the guy and when she went back to see the guy, he already had another girl. And that was literally it: it was rainy day the day after…She was trying to find him and she saw him with another girl and she burned with desire but he left her in the rain. So if you think about the lyrics ‘For each forgotten kiss, for all the memories…You played your part so well, your modern Romeo, You came on Cupid’s wings and then you flew away’ it’s about the empty feeling we all have at some times.
“English is not my native language so we had some fun in the studio; sometimes I say something really stupid. I would find something and I’m like ‘Alright, I want to say this-and-this and she [Justine Suissa] would say ‘uh, right Armin, but you have to word it like this!’ The ‘But you left me in the rain’ was my part, I kept using it-- Justine would sing “Burned with Desire’ and then I would sing ‘but you left me in the rain’ and she’d be like ‘No, no!’ - but finally at the end we added it in”, Armin told us as if telling a good joke. “It was actually written in a few hours. I did the finally chill out mix, we wrote the tune on 138bpm, but I did it half tempo, so it was easy to the Rising Star Remix.”