"Ti sento" (Italian for 'I feel you') is a song by the Italian pop band Matia Bazar from their 1985 album Melanchólia. It reached number one in Belgian music charts and number two in the Dutch charts.[1] It has been covered multiple times, including by Swedish singer Lena Philipsson as "Jag känner" ('I feel') in 1986. In October 2009, a version by Scooter became an international hit. In October 2023, a remix of the song by Bob Sinclar was released.
"Ti sento" is a single by German techno group Scooter, based on the 1985 song of the same name by Matia Bazar. The single features the former singer of Matia Bazar, Antonella Ruggiero, and was the second release from the 2009 album Under the Radar Over the Top.
The 1940s-themed video premiered on 18 September 2009.[11] Shot in a cinematic style, it depicts the three band members, H. P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan, and Michael Simon escorting Antonella Ruggiero into an opera house, wearing full formal outfits. They enter through a storm of paparazzi and reporters. Jordan and Simon appear to be securing the premises, as Baxxter goes to a balcony seat. Ruggiero portrays an operatic singer, and she prepares for a large show before a mirror. Jordan spots an attractive woman climbing the stairs, and does not give it a second thought. Ruggiero exits out on the stage, and sings for a full house. Baxxter, Jordan, and Simon watch the show, and they notice an assassin (who is in fact the woman Jordan spotted earlier) poking a high-precision rifle through the curtains on the floor above them. Jordan and Simon run up the stairs to apprehend the shooter, while Baxxter throws himself off the balcony in a failed attempt to take the bullet for Ruggiero. The bullet is fired, and Ruggiero dies in Baxxter's arms at the end of the video, as they escape the opera house.
An extended version of the video premièred 25 September 2009. The video features over two minutes of extra footage, and the extended version of the song. The end of the video shows the reflections of the three band members failed attempts to stop the sniper from killing Ruggiero.[12]
The video, like many other Scooter videos, features a historic automobile, this one being a Citroën Traction Avant.
"Ti sento" samples the original by Matia Bazar, of which Ruggiero was the lead singer at the time (from 1975 to 1989). The sound effect is from Wildstylez's "Music or noize". The pre-melody also samples Crypsis & Kold Konexion's "Sonic sabotage".
^"ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 1. týden 2010 in the date selector. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
