Just for You (M People song)
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"Just for You" is the fifteenth overall single from British band M People.
It is the lead single from their fourth album, Fresco （1997）.
Written by Mike Pickering, Paul Heard and Heather Small.
Produced by M People.
It was released on 22 September 1997.
The song peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart.
The intro to the song is led by an orchestral string movement, soon combined with a slow strummy guitar and Heather's vocals.
"Just for You" is a love song with Heather singing about the exultations of love and the lengths that she would go to always be there; to support,
to sacrifice and to guide singing the insistent refrain at the end of every line of the verses: "Just for You".
The video was premiered on Friday 12 September 1997 on music channel The Box, a music show called Good Stuff on 23 September and Videotech on ITV on 25 September.
The band themselves first performed the song live on Chris Evans's Channel 4 show TFI Friday on Friday 19 September and GMTV on the day of release.
They also made their fourteenth promotional appearance on Top of the Pops on Friday 26 September and the video was played in full on The Chart Show the next day.
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the song as "sweeping orchestrated pop" and noted it as one of the highlights of the Fresco album.
Another editor, Jon O'Brien said it is a "quite lovely acoustic ballad".
British magazine NME called it "luscious wallpaper with Small's elegantly unfussy voice sinking into a sumptuous bed of synthesised strings
and house-lite beats." The music video for "Just for You" was shot overnight in Los Angeles over the weekend of 24/25 August 1997.
The four main members of the band featured prominently in a coolly...