Running Through the Fire (Storm)
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{{Infobox song
| name = Running Through the Fire (Storm)
| cover = Running Through the Fire (Storm).jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Anika Moa
| album = Love in Motion
| released = 5 April 2010
| recorded =
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| genre = Pop, electropop{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10635800|title=Anika Moa's tough love album|work=The New Zealand Herald|first=Scott|last=Kara|date=1 April 2010|accessdate=13 April 2010}}
| length = 3:49
| label = EMI
| producer = Anika Moa, Andre Upston
| prev_title = Beside You
| prev_year = 2008
| next_title = Blame It on the Rain
| next_year = 2010
}}
"Running Through the Fire (Storm)" is a single by Anika Moa, a singer-songwriter from New Zealand. It is the lead single from her fourth studio album, Love in Motion.
Background, composition and release
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Originally under the title of "Storm",{{cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i5dkN8I-4s& |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522033734/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i5dkN8I-4s |archive-date=2010-05-22 |url-status=dead|title=Anika Moa performs 'Running Through The Fire'|people=Mike Hosking (host)|publisher=Close Up|medium=YouTube|date=5 April 2010|accessdate=13 July 2010}} Moa wrote "Running Through the Fire" for her father on the day he died.{{cite journal |url=http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/album/pi_albumid/1500 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306060212/http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/album/pi_albumid/1500 |title=Anika Moa: Love in Motion|journal=NZ Musician |volume=15 |issue=7 |date=June–July 2010 |archivedate=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead |first=Amanda |last=Mills|accessdate=14 July 2010}} She later said, "I don't like that [inspiration], so I changed it...it's a love song."{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bKvDOJfygl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608142338/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bKvDOJfygl |archive-date=2014-06-08 |url-status=dead|title=Breakfast: Tāmati and Anika Moa |people=Tāmati Coffey (reporter); Paul Henry, Pippa Wetzell (hosts); Anika Moa (interviewee) |publisher=Breakfast (Television New Zealand) |medium=YouTube |time=6:34 |date=6 April 2010 |accessdate=1 August 2010}}
"Running Through the Fire" is an electropop-rock song,{{cite news|title=Review:Anika Moa – Love in Motion |first=Kristin |last=MacFarlane |work=The Daily Post |publisher=APN News & Media |page=B3 |date=10 April 2010}} and contains 1980s pop influences. and makes use of the electric guitar.{{cite news|title=Universal love stories |first=Grant |last=Smithies |work=The Sunday Star-Times |publisher=Fairfax New Zealand |page=32 |date=23 May 2010}}
The song was released in March 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/silver-scroll-awards/news/video.cfm?c_id=1500976&gal_gid=113758&gallery_id=112844 |title=Running Through the Fire (Storm) – Anika Moa |work=The New Zealand Herald |publisher=APN News & Media |accessdate=23 December 2010}}
Reception
In album reviews, Jo Tindling of Amplifier and Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald compared "Running Through the Fire (Storm)" to the work of Ladyhawke.{{cite web|url=http://www.amplifier.co.nz/review/57047/anika-moa-love-in-motion.html|title=Anika Moa – Love In Motion|work=Amplifier|first=Jo|last=Tindling|date=14 May 2010|accessdate=15 May 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522014830/http://www.amplifier.co.nz/review/57047/anika-moa-love-in-motion.html|archivedate=22 May 2010}} [http://www.christchurchmusic.org.nz/resources/music-reviews-interviews/anika-moa-love-motion-review Alt URL]{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10637079|title=Love In Motion|work=The New Zealand Herald|first=Scott|last=Kara|date=8 April 2010|accessdate=15 May 2010}}
The song was a finalist for the 2010 APRA Silver Scroll, a peer-judged songwriting award,{{cite press release |url=http://www.apra.co.nz/news/allnews/APRASilverScrollAwards2010Announcingthefinalists.aspx |title=APRA Silver Scroll Awards 2010 |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association |date=29 July 2010 |archiveurl=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1007/S00404/apra-silver-scroll-awards-2010.htm |archivedate=29 July 2010 |accessdate=31 July 2010}} but lost to The Naked and Famous' "Young Blood".{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10671929 |title=The Naked and Famous win APRA Silver Scroll |first=Hugh |last=Sundae |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=8 September 2010 |accessdate=8 September 2010}} It is Moa's third song to be nominated for the award, with "Stolen Hill" and "Dreams in My Head" being the previous two.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10661890 |title=Silver Scroll award short list named |first=Scott |last=Kara |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=29 July 2010 |accessdate=1 August 2010}}
On the chart dated 12 April 2010, the song appeared on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number thirty-eight. It slipped out of the chart the following week.{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Anika+Moa&titel=Running+Through+The+Fire+(Storm)&cat=s|title=Anika Moa – Running Through The Fire (Storm)|publisher=charts.nz|accessdate=13 April 2010}}
Music video and live performances
The music video for the single, funded by New Zealand On Air,{{cite web|url=http://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/newsnewsletters/newsletter_2010_03_18.aspx |title=News |publisher=New Zealand On Air |date=18 March 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604231600/http://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/newsnewsletters/newsletter_2010_03_18.aspx |archivedate=4 June 2010 |url-status=dead |accessdate=31 July 2010}} was directed by Tim van Dammen.{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jb_G2brpwM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/5Jb_G2brpwM |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Anika Moa - Running Though The Fire HD.mov |date=16 March 2010 |publisher=EMI Records |medium=YouTube |accessdate=1 August 2010}}{{cbignore}} A one shot, it features Moa playing an electric guitar and singing with her backing band, then walking around a garden in the night. Rays of light stream from Moa as she walks.
Live performances
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Moa performed "Running Through the Fire" on Close Up on 5 April 2010, the day that the album, Love in Motion, was released in New Zealand.{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/love-in-motion/id362127427|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107023852/https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/love-in-motion/id362127427|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2012|title=Love In Motion|publisher=iTunes Store. Apple Inc|accessdate=7 April 2010}} The following day she played the song on Breakfast, live from Mission Bay. At the 2010 New Zealand Music Awards, held on 7 October 2010, Moa sang the song, accompanied by Julia Deans.{{cite web|url=http://www.c4tv.co.nz/Anika-Moa-Live-at-the-2010-VNZMAs/tabid/1002/articleID/8379/Default.aspx |title=Anika Moa Live at the 2010 VNZMAs |publisher=C4. MediaWorks New Zealand |accessdate=15 October 2010}}
Moa also performed the song on her Love in Motion tour in May and June 2010,{{cite news|title=Moa delivers amazing, engaging performance |first=Katarina |last=Filipe |work=The Timaru Herald |publisher=Fairfax New Zealand |page=9 |date=4 June 2010}} and The Datsuns covered the tune at the awards ceremony of the APRA Silver Scroll, for which the song was a finalist, on 8 September 2010.{{cite journal|url=http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/article/pi_articleid/2084 |title=2010 APRA Silver Scroll Awards |journal=NZ Musician |date=9 September 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306060328/http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/article/pi_articleid/2084 |archivedate=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead |accessdate=15 October 2010}} Band Together, a benefit concert was held in North Hagley Park in response to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake on 23 October 2010, which Moa appeared at. Her performance of "Running Through the Fire" was recorded and included on the album Band Together: Concert For Canterbury.{{cite web |url=http://www.marbecks.co.nz/detail/index.lsd?catalogID=601530 |title=Band Together :- Concert for Canterbury |publisher=Marbecks |accessdate=23 December 2010}}
References
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