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No New Friends (LSD song)
2019 single by LSD From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"No New Friends", sometimes titled "Know New Friends",[1] is a song by LSD from the group's album of the same name, released by Columbia Records on 14 March 2019.[2] The song serves as the album's fifth and final single, following "Genius", "Audio", "Thunderclouds", and "Mountains".[3]
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Composition
"No New Friends" is a pop song with electronic dance music (EDM) influences,[4] and has a "thumping" dance beat with "bouncy" synth loops by Diplo, as well as harmonized vocals by Sia and Labrinth. Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone describes the song's bridge as "reminiscent of a boozy piano ballad".[3]
Release and promotion
Sia confirmed the song's release date via Twitter on 12 March 2019.[5] The group performed "No New Friends" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2019.[6]
Reception
Billboard's Kat Bein described "No New Friends" as a "bright, rhythm-led tune that pops warm and sunny like spring for your ears", and "infectiously catchy with a touch of the islands that celebrates the buddies we already have".[7] Derrick Rossignol of Uproxx called the song "upbeat" and "an ode to appreciating what you have". He wrote, "The song gives everybody a chance to shine, thanks to Sia's idiosyncratic vocals, Labrinth's hip-hop energy, and Diplo’s EDM-influenced pop production that ties everything together."[4]
Music video
The official music video for the song was released on 16 April 2019. Rolling Stone's review called the video "an appropriately fantastical visual" and described it as follows: "The clip, directed by Dano Cerny and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, stars Sia's sixteen-year-old body double Maddie Ziegler as a giant. She encounters the pink-clad Labrinth in a Dr. Seussian land of puff-ball trees and whimsical puffy clouds, and the two quickly form a bond. They frolic through the trees, stare up at cloud formations and encounter human-sized clones of Ziegler dancing giddily on a hillside. Diplo appears later in the video as a floating sun and moon, and as another giant who towers over Ziegler."[8]
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Track listing
- Digital download – Remixes[9]
- "No New Friends" (Dombresky Remix) – 4:06
- "No New Friends" (Aaron Redding Remix) – 2:48
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes of LSD.
- Sia Furler – writer, lyricist, vocals
- Labrinth – writer, lyricist, vocals, producer, engineer, instrumentation, programming
- Diplo – writer, producer, instrumentation, programming
- King Henry – writer, producer, instrumentation, programming
- Jr Blender – writer, producer, instrumentation, programming
- Nathaniel "Detonate" Ledwidge – additional production
- Bart Schoudel – engineer
- Serban Ghenea – mixer
- John Hanes – engineer for mix
- Randy Merrill – masterer
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External links
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