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"Taken by a Stranger" has been described as an electropop song. It was written by American songwriters Gus Seyffert and Nicole Morier, and Norwegian songwriter Monica Birkenes. Seyffert has said the song was created when he played some of his ideas for Nicole Morier on the guitar. Both worked on a basic structure and the lyrics for a few days, before sending it to Monica Birkenes in London. The final production then took Seyffert several weeks. He has commented on the song's lyrics: "We decided on a story of a stranger, who seems a little threatening, or to whom the singer might become threatening. I think it is about expressing a fantasy to be together with a stranger".
The song was one of approximately 500 titles submitted for consideration for Unser Song für Deutschland (Our Song for Germany), the television programme created to find Lena Meyer-Landrut's song for her attempted title defence at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. It was selected by Meyer-Landrut and Stefan Raab as one of twelve potential Eurovision songs. In the final of Unser Song für Deutschland it won over the ballad "Push Forward" with 79% of the televotes.
The final version of the song was produced by Reinhard Schaub and Stefan Raab.
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