Original Me

The album was produced over a two-year time period at Plazmatek Studios in Germany. Every song on the album was produced by the two disc jockeys of Cascada, DJ Manian and Yanou. Like the previous albums by the recording group, album features songwriting credits from other writers including Tony Cornelissen, Allan Eshuijs, Jonathan Kinnear, James Kinnear and Andres Ballinas. New writers on the album include Mimoza Blinsson, Alfred Tuohey, Nina Peifer, Max Persson, and Salar Gorgees. Some of the production was aided by writers on the album like Alfred Tuohey and Andres Ballinas.

For this album, Cascada decided to experiment with a new release strategy, planning to produce and release different singles and then attempting to bind them all into an album. A new single "Pyromania" was released in 2010. When interviewed about the new music coming out, lead singer Natalie Horler described their current music as going in a "slightly more pop direction".[2] She still classifies it as dance music as it has combine their "clubby electronic pop" sound, with less beat per minute.[2] A second single, "Night Nurse", was the released along with a music video featuring Natalie in full body paint of various colors in many scenes. This song never got a commercial release but was featured on a compilation CD in the UK. All of the singles released before the album's release date were came out six months apart, with "Pyromania" released in March, "Night Nurse" released in November and "San Francisco" released in June.

The album is comprised heavily of electropop music influenced by Europop, Eurodance and R&B. It follows in the sound of the previous album, Evacuate the Dancefloor, taking away the bell-synths, drum machines and synthesizers used in the Eurodance style they were previously known for. The production features more cymbal crashing beats, modern robotic synths and heavily auto-tuned male vocals. Other instruments featured in the production of this album include piano loops, guitars and synth strings. On two of the songs, “Unspoken” and “Independence Day”, Zimbabwean-German rapper Carlprit was featured, rapping throughout the first and second verse while Horler sang the chorus.

• "Pyromania" was released as the album's first single in Germany on 19 March 2010 by Zooland Records. It was Composed as an electropop song, which features Natalie Horler singing the whole song with guest male vocals speaking the "Pyro-pyro" hook.
• "San Francisco" was released as the album's lead single on 3 June 2011.[4] The song had originally premiered on their official YouTube account in the song's music video on 28 April 2011.[5] The video features Horler with a group of people all dressed as modern-day hippies out on a night in San Francisco for a party, ending with them having a party on a rooftop.[6] "San Francisco" has been met with generally positive review from critics, though it has been constantly compared to Katy Perry's 2010 hit "California Gurls", with allegations that Cascada "ripped-off" Perry in the song.[6][7][8] The song has been commercially successful despite these claims, proving to be Cascada's most successful single since "Evacuate the Dancefloor" in Austria where the song has achieved a current peak of number 14[9] and has also managed to reach number 13 in Germany[10] and 11 in the Netherlands.[9] It was later released in the United States.
• "Au Revoir" is the 3rd overall single from the album. It will be the first single from the album in France. The music video premiered on Clubland TV. It features Natalie and many dancers dressed in a masquerade theme, and they dance all throughout the video. It was released in the UK on 11 October but failed to chart on the top 100, owing to the lack of promotion or airplay. It was later released in Germany and the United States.
• "Night Nurse" was released as the 2nd, but promo-only single from the yet-uncompleted album, late in 2010. It wasn't officially released until "Au Revoir" was dropped as a lead single follow-up, as previously planned. On 16 December 2011 Zooland released "Night Nurse" as a fourth official, and final, single off the album. It has only been released in the United States.

The album peaked 46 in Austria, 44 in Switzerland and 24 in the UK becoming the band's lowest chart position in those countries. The album peaked 41 in their home country, Germany, becoming their second lowest charting album there.