This Is What It Feels Like

"This Is What It Feels Like"
Single by Armin van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie
from the album Intense
Released	1 January 2013
Recorded	2012
Studio	Armada Studios, Amsterdam
Genre	Progressive trance progressive house dance-pop
Length	3:25 (radio edit) 5:20 (original mix)
Label	Armind Armada
Songwriter(s)	Armin van Buuren Benno de Goeij Jenson Vaughan Trevor Guthrie John Ewbank
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 1 January 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. 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.