Global InformationBen Bazen information
| Ben Bazen | ||||
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| Studio album by Simge | ||||
| Released | 1 June 2018 | |||
| Recorded | 2016–2018 | |||
| Studio | Various
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| Genre | Dance-pop | |||
| Length | 55:02 | |||
| Label | DMC | |||
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Ben Bazen (I Sometimes...) is the debut studio album by Turkish singer Simge. It was released on 1 June 2018 by Doğan Music Company. After her oriental single "Miş Miş" (2015) topped the music charts in Turkey, Simge continued her career with low-paced songs such as "Yankı" (2016) and started to give hints about the musical style of her first album. During the preparation process of the album, which lasted for four years, she worked with a number of artists, including Ozan Bayraşa, Alper Narman, Ersay Üner, Onurr and Sezen Aksu.
Considered a dance-pop album as a whole, Ben Bazen also contains elements of deep house, R&B, rock, trap and türkü. The lyrics are centered around a woman who tries to tell the story of her love and in some songs she does not give up, while in others she tries to escape from the crisis in her life. Music critics praised the album's musical diversity and pointed out that it had emerged as a result of a successful team work. Photographs of the album were taken by Nihat Odabaşı, and the photograph used on the cover shows Simge holding a guitar with one hand and a microphone with the other.
Five songs from the album were turned into music videos. Months before releasing the album, the song "Üzülmedin mi?" was released as a promotional single in November 2017, and its music video was recorded in Nişantaşı, Şişli. It was centered around a story about unfaithfulness. On its first week of release, the song ranked as number-one on Türkçe Top 20. The music video for "Ben Bazen" was released together with the album. It was recorded in Göcek, Fethiye, and showed Simge dancing alone in a natural environment. The song rose to number-three on Türkçe Top 20. The next music video was made for "Öpücem" in Kilyos, Sarıyer, and the song ranked first on Türkçe Top 20. The fourth music video was released for the second version of the song "Aşkın Olayım", followed by a music video for the song "Yalnız Başına", which was shot in New York.
To promote the album, Simge gave concerts at various places in Turkey and appeared on a number of radio and television programs. Spotify also promoted the album on billboards in numerous places of Istanbul. The album received the Best Album award at the 7th Ayaklı Newspaper TV Stars Award, and the song "Üzülmedin mi?" was given the Best Song award at the 15th Radio Boğaziçi Music Awards. It also earned Simge a nomination for the Best Female Pop Musician at the 45th Golden Butterfly Awards.