This Is What It Feels Like

"This Is What It Feels Like"
Single by Armin van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie
from the album Intense
Released5 April 2013
Recorded2012
StudioArmada Studios, Amsterdam
Genre
Length
  • 3:25 (radio edit)
  • 5:20 (original mix)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Armin van Buuren
  • Benno de Goeij
  • Jenson Vaughan
Armin van Buuren singles chronology
"D# Fat"
(2013)
"This Is What It Feels Like"
(2013)
"Beautiful Life"
(2013)
Trevor Guthrie singles chronology
"This Is What It Feels Like"
(2013)
"Soundwave"
(2014)

"This Is What It Feels Like" is a song by Dutch DJ and record producer Armin van Buuren, featuring Canadian singer, songwriter and former soulDecision frontman Trevor Guthrie, released in the Netherlands by Armada Music on 5 April 2013 as the second single from van Buuren's fifth studio album, Intense (2013).

"This Is What It Feels Like" peaked at number three on the Dutch Top 40. Outside the Netherlands, "This Is What It Feels Like" peaked within the top ten of the charts in ten countries, including Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom.

The song was written by Armin van Buuren, Benno de Goeij, Jenson Vaughan, Trevor Guthrie and John Ewbank, and produced by Vaughan and Ewbank. Van Buuren wrote the instrumental with de Goeij and Ewbank in 2012. Trevor Guthrie wrote the lyrics with Jenson Vaughan, and it was inspired by Guthrie's neighbour who was diagnosed with a brain tumor.[1] "This Is What It Feels Like" was nominated for the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.[2] The song was featured in the intro for a 2019 episode of America's Got Talent.

  1. ^ Anthems - Ultimate Singles Collected (booklet). Armin van Buuren. Armada Music. 2014. ARMA395.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ "GRAMMY.com". Grammy Awards. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2013.