Better Off Alone

Album

Who Needs Guitars Anyway?

Label

Universal Music

Genre

Trance

Composer(s)

Pronti,Kalmani

Entered Chart

Apr 8, 2000

Peak Date

Jun 3, 2000

Released

1999

Recorded

1997 Studio Violent (Studio 4045), (Hilversum, Netherlands)

Catalog #

Republic 156798

Better Off Alone" is notable for having two versions of its music video. The original music video was directed by Olaf van Gerwen through the studio Blood Simple – who at the time directed videos for Sebastian Molijn and Eelke Kalberg's other music project the Vengaboys.[14][15] In the first version of the video, a man travels in a Jeep through the Moroccan desert. His car stalls and is forced to walk on foot. He discards his items along the way such as a watch, a map and some vodka. In parallel, a woman is sitting on a couch in a living room singing the lyrics to the song while the man sees her in the desert. The man gets lost in the desert while intercut scenes of him and his girlfriend in love are shown. He takes off his broken dog tag while screaming. Because the dog tag is already broken and the girl has the second part probably means he is already dead and she is missing him. The video ends on his dead body being covered by the desert sand. The second version was directed by "Cousin Mike" from the 1711 Production Group. The second video was shot in Miami for Republic and Universal.[16] The second version is interspersed with desert scenes from the original, but with added scenes where Judith Pronk, Mila Levesque and Angelique Versnel are dancing in a room with Moroccan decor. Sometimes just Pronk alone, wearing a blue dress with a veil.

In this Eurodance song, vocalist Judith Pronk sings about how she'd be better off alone after breaking up with her ex, and rhetorically asks him the question, "Do you think you're better off alone?" >

Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?

Talk to me, ooh-ooh, talk to me
Talk to me, ooh-ooh, talk to me
Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?

Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?
Do you think you're better off alone?

Talk to me, ooh-ooh, talk to me
Talk to me, ooh-ooh, talk to me
Talk to me