Free Loop (One Night Stand)
"Free Loop (One Night Stand)" (titled as "Free Loop" on Daniel Powter) is a pop song written by Canadian singer Daniel Powter. It was his second single and the follow-up to his successful song, "Bad Day". It did not achieve the success of its predecessor. In the UK, WEA failed to realize the single was deemed ineligible to chart since "Bad Day" was included as B-side whilst still being in the UK Top 40 at the time. In the U.S., it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but it did crack the Top 30 of Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. It was featured in Cheetah Mobile’s 2016 iOS/Android app Piano Tiles 2. It was also used in a 2007 advertisement showcasing the Ford I-Max in Taiwan.
| "Free Loop (One Night Stand)" | ||||
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| Single by Daniel Powter | ||||
| from the album Daniel Powter | ||||
| Released | November 7, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | Early 2005 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 3:48 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros., Sony BMG | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Daniel Powter | |||
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Music video
The video, directed by Marc Webb, who also directed the music videos for "Bad Day" and "Lie to Me," shows a young Daniel Powter starting at a piano in a music store and puts his fingers on the window and magically plays the piano. The scene then cuts to an adult version of Powter, who is now able to buy the piano. He then sees a note of eviction on his apartment door and has to sell the piano back to pay for the rent. After selling the piano back, he is shown at a bar where a talent scout talks to him about being part of a once-in-a-lifetime offer. Getting ready for his "big performance," he sees the piano demolished after being used in a strip club with glasses thrown at and prostitutes landing on the keys. He then takes it home and repairs it to its former glory. At the final scene he performs it at the "Millennium Biltmore Hotel," and gets an applause from crowd at the end of the song. All the scenes were filmed in California.
Powter explains that he wanted it to reflect on people, their relationships and himself, not about champagne or car rims: It's about people, relationships and situations in "...piano pop music, over-infatuated on steroids."
Charts
| Chart (2005/2006) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart | 43 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 62 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 11 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 33 |
| French Singles Chart | 52 |
| German Singles Chart | 55 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 32 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 38 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 30 |