Looking for a New Love

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"Looking for a New Love" is a song by American dance-pop singer Jody Watley. It was released in January 1987 as the first single from her eponymous debut album. The song became one of the biggest pop and R&B singles of 1987. Watley re-recorded and re-issued the song in various remixes in 2005.

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History

The single hit number two for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1987 and spent four weeks at number-one on the Billboard R&B chart. The single was kept out of the top spot of the Hot 100 by Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" and U2's "With or Without You", and would itself keep Club Nouveau's Hot 100 number-one single "Lean on Me" out of the top spot of the R&B chart. It ranked number 16 on Billboard's year-end chart for 1987.

The song also reached number-one on the RPM Singles Chart in Canada.

In 1988 the song was nominated for two Soul Train Music Awards for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video, and Best R&B/Soul Single, Female. She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.

While listening to a tape of instrumental tracks given to her by producer André Cymone, Watley reflected on a recent sour romantic breakup. Fusing her own feelings of "I'll show you" with the feel of the track, Watley came up with the basic premise of "Looking for a New Love." The released record is the eight-track demo of the song; that way the emotional urgency of Watley's vocal was still intact. One of the song's key phrases became a popular saying: "Hasta la vista, baby." It wound up on innumerable answering machines and was used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day (see Hasta la vista, baby).

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2005 re-issue

In 2005, Jody Watley re-recorded and released "Looking for a New Love" on Water Music Records in conjunction with her own Avitone label, Curvve Recordings, and Peace Bisquit. The re-issue was remixed in various styles: house, electro, breakbeat. The newly imagined "Looking for a New Love" peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, making her the first artist ever to take the same song to No. 1 in two decades.

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Music video

A music video, directed by Brian Grant was released in March 1987 to promote the song. Grant previously made videos for Whitney Houston, Peter Gabriel and Tina Turner.

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Track Listing

• Maxi-CD 2005
• 1 Looking For A New Love (ROCAsound Radio Edit) 4:32
• 2 Looking For A New Love (ROCAsound Mix) 7:30
• 3 Looking For A New Love (Chus & Ceballos MIx) 9:50
• 4 Looking For A New Love (Craig C. Mix) 8:25
• 5 "Baby Baby" (DJ Tool) 0:31
• 6 Looking For A New Love (Chris Joss Vocal Mix) 5:45
• 7 Looking For A New Love (Chris Joss Stripped Vocal Mix) 4:48
• 8 Looking For A New Love (Levon Vincent Mix) 6:45
• 9 Looking For A New Love (GoodandEvil Mix) 4:53
• 10 "I Needed You" (DJ Tool) 0:36
• 11 Looking For A New Love (Heinrich Z Mix) (Ultimix Edit) 5:52

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1987 Official versions

• Looking For A New Love (Extended Club Version) 7:28
• Looking For A New Love (Instrumental) 7:28
• Looking For A New Love (A Cappella) 5:06
• Looking For A New Love (Radio Edit) 5:06
• Looking For A New Love (Bonus Beats) 4:33
• Looking For A New Love (Video Version) 4:10

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Awards and nominations

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Charts

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See also

• List of number-one dance singles of 2005 (U.S.)

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References

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External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Source of the article : Wikipedia