Writing and Recording
"Goodbye to Yesterday" was written exclusively for the band's comeback album Destiny, following a request by the No Angels' A&R manager Niklas Hafemann after their secret reformation in mid-2006. Fully completed and conveyed shortly prior to recording start in late January 2007, "Goodbye to Yesterday" was an eleventh-hour addition to the album's recording listing and the last song out of eight proposed tracks to be recorded by the group, with most of it being recorded spontaneously due to timing conflicts.
The band has described the mid-tempo song as an example of their musical and lyrical development and personal maturity in the last few years of their break: "It typifies everything we have to say," Lucy Diakovska said in an interview with NRJ Radio Energy. "It's not about bidding farewell to something, but about flipping a new chapter open and putting experiences into practice." However, Sandy Mölling noted that the song and its title "may not be appreciated as a motto," since the band felt no regret of their acts and decisions in the past. Co-produced by longtime contributors Niclas Molinder, Pelle Ankarberg and Joacim Persson, "Goodbye to Yesterday" was eventually selected as the album's lead single out of a total of seven songs.
Although the full track was given its first ever radio airplay at midnight of February 1, 2007, following the official announcement of the band reunion, a twenty-second clip of "Goodbye to Yesterday" was previewed on RTL's news programme Punkt 12 during a press conference the day before. By February 2 the entire track had beeb ripped from radio, and leaked onto the internet. Officially released on March 16, 2007 in all German-speaking countries, both the CD and the digital single spawned dance, electronic and house music-influenced remixes by German producers and DJs Klaas and Black Dog.
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