"Lose My Mind" is a pop song by British-Irish

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, taken as the third and final single from their self-titled debut album. It was written by Nina Woodford, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, and produced by Rami and Falk, with additional production by The Wideboys. It was released on 26 December 2010. Following a live performance of the song on the seventh series of ''

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'', the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 29.

Background

Band member Jay McGuiness said in a press release that "Lose My Mind" is "a pop tune about someone playing mind games with you, as you try and fail, to blot it all out." It was written by Nina Woodford, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, produced by Rami and Falk and recorded at Kinglet Studios and A-Side Studios, in

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. Additional production was done by British

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producers The Wideboys.

Music video

The music video for "Lose My Mind" was directed by

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and filmed in

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and it was performed at

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on 17 January 2011. A series of fifteen-second teasers for the music video were released before the full video's premiere, which was on 28 November 2010 on

. The video shows the band members heading to Coney Island in the rain. When they arrive they it is revealed they work on different rides on the Island. The video is dispersed with them singing at their respective rides, scenes where they mess about at Coney Island, with their song playing over them, and them singing directly to the camera as a group.

Live performances

The Wanted performed "Lose My Mind" live on the seventh series of ''The X Factor'' on 28 November 2010. They limited the number of female dancers on stage with them to avoid making their female fans jealous, but had a large production with a fairground theme, which McGuiness said was to "distract from the fact we can't dance very well". They also performed the song on ''

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'', and '' Alan Carr: Chatty Man''.

Critical reception

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made "Lose My Mind" their "song of the day" on 12 November 2010. A writer for website Female First called the song "an anthemic rock ballad that shows off he members'characteristically mature, edgy vocals and breaks them out of the traditional boyband mould." Nick Levine of

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gave the song four stars out of five and praised the song for its "brilliantly melodramatic lyrics" and "punchy" chorus, while complimenting Max George's heavily auto-tuned vocals. Following the performance of "Lose My Mind" on ''The X Factor'', the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 29 and the

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at number 24 on 5 December 2010, three weeks before its official single release. It left the UK Singles Chart on the week of 23 January 2011 after spending seven weeks in the chart.

Track listing

* CD single # "Lose My Mind" (radio edit) – 3:25 # "Lose My Mind" ( Cahill radio remix) – 3:04 * Digital EP: 1 # "Lose My Mind" (radio edit) – 3:25 # " For the First Time" ( BBC live version) – 4:30 # "

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" (BBC live version) – 3:57 * Digital EP: 2 # "Lose My Mind" (Cahill club remix) – 7:09 # "Lose My Mind" (Cahill dub) – 5:37 # "Lose My Mind" (Gavin Cool remix – featuring Scorcher) – 3:38 # "Lose My Mind" (7th Heaven club remix) – 6:56

Personnel

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– Nina Woodford, Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk * Production,

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, keyboards and programming – Rami, Carl Falk * Additional remix, production and programming – The Wideboys *

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and

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– Tom Parker, Nathan Sykes, Jay McGuiness, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran * Mastering – Dick Beetham Source

Charts

Release history

References

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