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==Critical reception== |
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Ned Raggett from [[AllMusic]] said that "Return to Innocence" is "not quite up there with "[[Sadeness (Part I)|Sadeness]]" in the popular culture in the U.S. but almost inescapable elsewhere."<ref>{{cite web|first= Ned |last= Raggett |title= Enigma – ''The Cross of Changes'' |publisher= [[AllMusic]] |access-date= 8 November 2020 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-cross-of-changes-mw0000107958}}</ref> [[Larry Flick]] from ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' wrote that [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]] "resurfaces with a far more accessible, but no less cool [[pop music|pop]]/[[hip hop music|hip-hop]] kicker." He added, "The track's insistent beat is good bait for a song that is chock-full of unusual male chants and breathy female vamping. Somewhere between the two is an irresistible [[Hooks (music)|hook]] and melody that assures much-deserved success at both radio and club level."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Larry|last=Flick|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1994/BB-1994-02-26.pdf|title=Single Reviews|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=26 February 1994|access-date=31 January 2020|author-link=Larry Flick}}</ref> Troy J. Augusto from ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]'' noted, "Now, experts at the [[Virgin Records]] hitmaking laboratory have concocted a new, even more startling scenario: Enigma as hit song-makers! Wild, but true. The life's work of one [[Michael Cretu]], a zealous Romanian attempting to go where no [[new age music]]ian has gone before. Enigma is threatening to break free of the genre's tacky shackles, making the world safe for [[ambient music|ambient]] artists everywhere."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Troy J.|last=Augusto|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Cash-Box/90s/1994/CB-1994-03-05.pdf|title=Pop Singles: Reviews|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]|date=5 March 1994|page=12|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> Dave Sholin from the ''[[Gavin Report]]'' called it "a haunting production that won't go by unnoticed."<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Dave |last= Sholin |title= Gavin Picks: Singles |magazine= [[Gavin Report]] |date= 11 February 1994 |page= 46 |access-date= 18 October 2020 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Gavin-Report/90/94/Gavin-1994-02-11.pdf}}</ref> |
Ned Raggett from [[AllMusic]] said that "Return to Innocence" is "not quite up there with "[[Sadeness (Part I)|Sadeness]]" in the popular culture in the U.S. but almost inescapable elsewhere."<ref>{{cite web|first= Ned |last= Raggett |title= Enigma – ''The Cross of Changes'' |publisher= [[AllMusic]] |access-date= 8 November 2020 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-cross-of-changes-mw0000107958}}</ref> [[Larry Flick]] from ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' wrote that [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]] "resurfaces with a far more accessible, but no less cool [[pop music|pop]]/[[hip hop music|hip-hop]] kicker." He added, "The track's insistent beat is good bait for a song that is chock-full of unusual male chants and breathy female vamping. Somewhere between the two is an irresistible [[Hooks (music)|hook]] and melody that assures much-deserved success at both radio and club level."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Larry|last=Flick|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1994/BB-1994-02-26.pdf|title=Single Reviews|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=26 February 1994|access-date=31 January 2020|author-link=Larry Flick}}</ref> Troy J. Augusto from ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]'' noted, "Now, experts at the [[Virgin Records]] hitmaking laboratory have concocted a new, even more startling scenario: Enigma as hit song-makers! Wild, but true. The life's work of one [[Michael Cretu]], a zealous Romanian attempting to go where no [[new age music]]ian has gone before. Enigma is threatening to break free of the genre's tacky shackles, making the world safe for [[ambient music|ambient]] artists everywhere."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Troy J.|last=Augusto|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Cash-Box/90s/1994/CB-1994-03-05.pdf|title=Pop Singles: Reviews|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]|date=5 March 1994|page=12|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> Dave Sholin from the ''[[Gavin Report]]'' called it "a haunting production that won't go by unnoticed."<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Dave |last= Sholin |title= Gavin Picks: Singles |magazine= [[Gavin Report]] |date= 11 February 1994 |page= 46 |access-date= 18 October 2020 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Gavin-Report/90/94/Gavin-1994-02-11.pdf}}</ref> |
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Jonathan Riggs from ''[[Idolator (website)|Idolator]]'' commented, "If all of human existence across time were a movie, "Return to Innocence" is the song that should play over the end credits." He added, ""Return to Innocence" was then and remains now universally epic, instantly recognizable, largely incomprehensible and endlessly moving. Like us. Like life."<ref>{{cite web|author=Riggs, Jonathan|title=The 50 Best Pop Singles Of 1994 (Featuring New Interviews With Ace Of Base, TLC, Lisa Loeb, Real McCoy & Haddaway)|work=[[Idolator (website)|Idolator]]|date=20 November 2014|access-date=7 April 2020|url=https://www.idolator.com/7569924/50-best-pop-singles-1994-interview-ace-of-base-tlc-lisa-loeb-real-mccoy-haddaway}}</ref> Alan Jones from ''[[Music Week]]'' described it as a "mysterious new collage of sounds" and "a haunting and well-constructed piece that sets ethnic-sounding emoting and softly spoken phrases against a dance beat and a swirl of soft synth sounds." He stated, "Satisfying and unique."<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Alan |last= Jones |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-01-22.pdf |title= Market Preview: Mainstream - Singles - Pick of the Week |magazine= [[Music Week]] |date= 22 January 1994 |page= 12 |accessdate= 13 April 2021}}</ref> [[James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)|James Hamilton]] from the magazine's ''RM'' Dance Update declared it as a "slinkily atmospheric rolling sombre 0-88-0bpm Euro smash".<ref>{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-02-05.pdf |title= Dj directory |magazine= [[Music Week]], in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 5 February 1994 |page= 7 |accessdate= 14 April 2021 |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}}</ref> John Kilgo from ''The Network Forty'' deemed it a "melodramatic chant".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=John|last=Kilgo|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Network-40/94/Network-40-1994-06-10.pdf|title=Mainstream: Music Meeting|magazine=The Network Forty|date=10 June 1994|page=22|access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> [[Charles Aaron]] for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' noted that here, "group mastermind Michael Cretu replaces his familiar monkish chants (1991’s hit ”Sadeness”) with aboriginal croons, but the entrancing, mid-tempo groove remains, along with loopy female whispers."<ref>{{cite magazine|author=[[Charles Aaron|Aaron, Charles]]|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/02/18/cross-changes/|title=The Cross of Changes|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=18 February 1994|accessdate=20 October 2021}}</ref> Richard Paton from ''[[Toledo Blade]]'' said that the song "captures that melange of sounds, the intensity of the beat, and the wafting vocals and chant".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Richard|last=Paton|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19940313&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=SOUNDS: "THE CROSS OF CHANGES" Enigma|magazine=[[Toledo Blade]]|date=13 March 1994|access-date=16 March 2020}}</ref> |
Jonathan Riggs from ''[[Idolator (website)|Idolator]]'' commented, "If all of human existence across time were a movie, "Return to Innocence" is the song that should play over the end credits." He added, ""Return to Innocence" was then and remains now universally epic, instantly recognizable, largely incomprehensible and endlessly moving. Like us. Like life."<ref>{{cite web|author=Riggs, Jonathan|title=The 50 Best Pop Singles Of 1994 (Featuring New Interviews With Ace Of Base, TLC, Lisa Loeb, Real McCoy & Haddaway)|work=[[Idolator (website)|Idolator]]|date=20 November 2014|access-date=7 April 2020|url=https://www.idolator.com/7569924/50-best-pop-singles-1994-interview-ace-of-base-tlc-lisa-loeb-real-mccoy-haddaway}}</ref> Alan Jones from ''[[Music Week]]'' described it as a "mysterious new collage of sounds" and "a haunting and well-constructed piece that sets ethnic-sounding emoting and softly spoken phrases against a dance beat and a swirl of soft synth sounds." He stated, "Satisfying and unique."<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Alan |last= Jones |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-01-22.pdf |title= Market Preview: Mainstream - Singles - Pick of the Week |magazine= [[Music Week]] |date= 22 January 1994 |page= 12 |accessdate= 13 April 2021}}</ref> [[James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)|James Hamilton]] from the magazine's ''RM'' Dance Update declared it as a "slinkily atmospheric rolling sombre 0-88-0bpm Euro smash".<ref>{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-02-05.pdf |title= Dj directory |magazine= [[Music Week]], in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 5 February 1994 |page= 7 |accessdate= 14 April 2021 |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}}</ref> John Kilgo from ''The Network Forty'' deemed it a "melodramatic chant".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=John|last=Kilgo|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Network-40/94/Network-40-1994-06-10.pdf|title=Mainstream: Music Meeting|magazine=The Network Forty|date=10 June 1994|page=22|access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> [[Charles Aaron]] for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' noted that here, "group mastermind Michael Cretu replaces his familiar monkish chants (1991’s hit ”Sadeness”) with aboriginal croons, but the entrancing, mid-tempo groove remains, along with loopy female whispers."<ref>{{cite magazine|author=[[Charles Aaron|Aaron, Charles]]|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/02/18/cross-changes/|title=The Cross of Changes|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=18 February 1994|accessdate=20 October 2021}}</ref> Richard Paton from ''[[Toledo Blade]]'' said that the song "captures that melange of sounds, the intensity of the beat, and the wafting vocals and chant".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Richard|last=Paton|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8_tS2Vw13FcC&dat=19940313&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=SOUNDS: "THE CROSS OF CHANGES" Enigma|magazine=[[Toledo Blade]]|date=13 March 1994|access-date=16 March 2020}}</ref> |
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==Music video== |
==Music video== |
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English film, documentary and [[music video]] director [[Julien Temple]] directed the video for "Return to Innocence", which depicts a man's life in reverse, starting with him dying and ending with his baptism as a baby |
English film, documentary and [[music video]] director [[Julien Temple]] directed the video for "Return to Innocence", which depicts a man's life in reverse, starting with him dying and ending with his baptism as a baby. It was later published on Enigma's official [[YouTube]] channel in March 2009. The video has amassed more than 121 million views.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08|title=Enigma - Return To Innocence (Official Video)|website=[[YouTube]]|date=10 March 2009|access-date=13 March 2022}}</ref> |
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==Track listing== |
==Track listing== |
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* '''4-track CD single''' |
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#Radio Edit – 4:03 |
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#Long & Alive Version (remixed by Curly M.C. and Jens Gad) – 7:07 |
# Long & Alive Version (remixed by Curly M.C. and Jens Gad) – 7:07 |
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#380 Midnight Mix (remixed by Jens Gad) – 5:55 |
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* '''5-track CD single''' |
* '''5-track CD single''' |
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#Radio Edit – 4:03 |
# Radio Edit – 4:03 |
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#Long & Alive Version (remixed by Curly M.C. and Jens Gad) – 7:07 |
# Long & Alive Version (remixed by Curly M.C. and Jens Gad) – 7:07 |
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#380 Midnight Mix (remixed by Jens Gad) – 5:55 |
# 380 Midnight Mix (remixed by Jens Gad) – 5:55 |
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#Short Radio Edit – 3:01 |
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#"[[Sadeness (Part I)]]" (Radio Edit) – 4:17 |
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==In popular culture== |
==In popular culture== |
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YouTube [[Let's Play|let's play]] channel [[Game Grumps]] have a famous bit mocking the Duanas' chanting.<ref>{{Citation|title=Dark Souls III: Unnecessary Chanting - PART 69 - Game Grumps|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-Ov2ol3wY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/IX-Ov2ol3wY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-10-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The bit has given the song the nickname "the Craig Penderson song" among Game Grumps fans. An animated version of the bit, animated by Carl Doonan, has amassed over 4.5 million views on YouTube.<ref>{{Citation|title=Game Grumps Animated - Craig Penderson - by Carl Doonan|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp5aj6oLnFE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Qp5aj6oLnFE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-10-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref> |
YouTube [[Let's Play|let's play]] channel [[Game Grumps]] have a famous bit mocking the Duanas' chanting.<ref>{{Citation|title=Dark Souls III: Unnecessary Chanting - PART 69 - Game Grumps|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-Ov2ol3wY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/IX-Ov2ol3wY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-10-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The bit has given the song the nickname "the Craig Penderson song" among Game Grumps fans. An animated version of the bit, animated by Carl Doonan, has amassed over 4.5 million views on YouTube.<ref>{{Citation|title=Game Grumps Animated - Craig Penderson - by Carl Doonan|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp5aj6oLnFE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Qp5aj6oLnFE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-10-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref> |
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==Charts and certifications== |
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!scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-12-24.pdf|title=1994 Year-End Sales Charts: Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|magazine=[[Music & Media]]|volume=11|issue=52|page=12|date=24 December 1994|access-date=28 November 2019}}</ref> |
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| Released | 4 January 1994 (1994-01-04) | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Studio | A.R.T. Studios, Ibiza | |||
| Genre | New-age, worldbeat | |||
| Length | 4:03 | |||
| Label | Virgin / EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Michael Cretu, Kuo Ying-nan, Kuo Hsiu-chu, John Bonham | |||
| Producer(s) | Michael Cretu | |||
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"Return to Innocence" is a song by German musical group Enigma. It was released on 4 January 1994 as the lead single from their second album, The Cross of Changes (1993). It became the project's most successful international single after "Sadeness (Part I)", reaching number one in over 10 countries (including Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Zimbabwe), number three on the UK Singles Chart, and the top five in several countries, including Canada, Germany and New Zealand. It also reached the top 20 in France and number two on the Eurochart Hot 100. "Return to Innocence" was the project's biggest hit in the United States, reaching number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, number four on the Billboard Hot 100, and number six on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40.
The song's melodic and talking vocals in English are provided by Angel X (Andreas Harde), and a short talking vocal by Sandra ("Death is not the beginning of the end, that's the return to yourself, the return to innocence"), while an Amis people chant ("Elders' Drinking Song") is repeated, which opens the song. Difang and Igay Duana, from the Amis, were in a cultural exchange program in Paris in 1988 when their performance of the song was recorded by the Maison des Cultures du Monde and later distributed on CD.[1][2] The producer of Enigma, Michael Cretu, later obtained the CD and proceeded to sample it. In addition, the drum beat of the song was sampled from the Led Zeppelin song "When the Levee Breaks", played by John Bonham.[3]
The song was used to promote several types of media in the mid-1990s, including film and TV commercials. In autumn 1994, the song was featured in an episode of the TV show My So-Called Life. In 1995, the song was used as the closing theme in Disney's live-action film Man of the House, as well as in the opening and closing of an Outer Limits episode. In 1996, the song was further popularised when it was used in a television advertisement to promote the 1996 Summer Olympics.
In March 1998, Difang and Igay Duana sued Cretu, Virgin Records, and a number of recording companies for unauthorised use of their song without credit.[4][5] The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money and all further releases of the song were credited (including royalties) to the Duanas, aka the Kuos — their Chinese name. The Kuos were an indigenous Taiwanese couple from the Ami tribe.[6] Cretu has stated that he had been led to believe that the recording was in the public domain and that he did not intentionally violate the Kuos' copyright.[7]
Ned Raggett from AllMusic said that "Return to Innocence" is "not quite up there with "Sadeness" in the popular culture in the U.S. but almost inescapable elsewhere."[8] Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that Enigma "resurfaces with a far more accessible, but no less cool pop/hip-hop kicker." He added, "The track's insistent beat is good bait for a song that is chock-full of unusual male chants and breathy female vamping. Somewhere between the two is an irresistible hook and melody that assures much-deserved success at both radio and club level."[9] Troy J. Augusto from Cashbox noted, "Now, experts at the Virgin Records hitmaking laboratory have concocted a new, even more startling scenario: Enigma as hit song-makers! Wild, but true. The life's work of one Michael Cretu, a zealous Romanian attempting to go where no new age musician has gone before. Enigma is threatening to break free of the genre's tacky shackles, making the world safe for ambient artists everywhere."[10] Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report called it "a haunting production that won't go by unnoticed."[11]
Jonathan Riggs from Idolator commented, "If all of human existence across time were a movie, "Return to Innocence" is the song that should play over the end credits." He added, ""Return to Innocence" was then and remains now universally epic, instantly recognizable, largely incomprehensible and endlessly moving. Like us. Like life."[12] Alan Jones from Music Week described it as a "mysterious new collage of sounds" and "a haunting and well-constructed piece that sets ethnic-sounding emoting and softly spoken phrases against a dance beat and a swirl of soft synth sounds." He stated, "Satisfying and unique."[13] James Hamilton from the magazine's RM Dance Update declared it as a "slinkily atmospheric rolling sombre 0-88-0bpm Euro smash".[14] John Kilgo from The Network Forty deemed it a "melodramatic chant".[15] Charles Aaron for Entertainment Weekly noted that here, "group mastermind Michael Cretu replaces his familiar monkish chants (1991’s hit ”Sadeness”) with aboriginal croons, but the entrancing, mid-tempo groove remains, along with loopy female whispers."[16] Richard Paton from Toledo Blade said that the song "captures that melange of sounds, the intensity of the beat, and the wafting vocals and chant".[17]
English film, documentary and music video director Julien Temple directed the video for "Return to Innocence", which depicts a man's life in reverse, starting with him dying and ending with his baptism as a baby. It was later published on Enigma's official YouTube channel in March 2009. The video has amassed more than 121 million views.[18]
YouTube let's play channel Game Grumps have a famous bit mocking the Duanas' chanting.[19] The bit has given the song the nickname "the Craig Penderson song" among Game Grumps fans. An animated version of the bit, animated by Carl Doonan, has amassed over 4.5 million views on YouTube.[20]
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