Writing and Recording
"Daylight in Your Eyes" was composed by American songwriters and guitarists Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrnes, and initially intended for inclusion on American rock band New Life Crisis' self-titled debut album on Tommy Boy Records. Recorded in 2000, their variation of the track received limited release in the United States in January 2001, and eventually ended on various sampler albums such as MTV's Party to Go (Remixed) compilation.
Plans for a Europe-wide release however fell through as Bruno and Byrnes had sold the song separately both stateside and abroad and the label lacked the right to release the band's version on any format throughout Europe. Further problems arose as Byrnes, Bruno, and the publishing company that bought the rights to the song were forced to not only acknowledge the writing contribution of Paul Mahos, but to also pay him back and continuing royalties, something which Byrnes and Bruno do not receive from the song.
Well-known to writer Tony Bruno, whom she had met while they were working as background musicians on Enrique Iglesias' 1999 Cosas del Amor World Tour, he introduced Victoria Faiella to German producer Peter Plate, one half of the musical duo Rosenstolz, with whom she started working on her first solo album Drama on the Sony subsidiary Epic Records, resulting into the re-recording of "Daylight". Picked as the album's lead single, a music video for the song was produced and sent to music networks, but as the record lacked airplay support, it underperformed and the singer was eventually dropped from her label.
A few months later, Plate got known that Polydor Records, the RTL II network and production company Tresor TV were searching songs for the soon-to-be-cast result of the debut season of the reality show Popstars. The producer offered the track a third time, and although the label favoured album cut "Go Ahead and Take It" as the album's lead single, "Daylight in Your Eyes" found general approval among the band members of the newly-formed No Angels. As reported, the song was eventually selected as the album's lead single out of a total of ten songs.
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