Baby (Clean Bandit song)
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| Single by Clean Bandit featuring Marina and Luis Fonsi | ||||
| from the album What Is Love? | ||||
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| Released | 2 November 2018 | |||
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| Length | 3:25 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
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"Baby" is a song by the English electronic music group Clean Bandit, featuring guest vocals from Welsh singer Marina and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi. It was released on 2 November 2018 through Atlantic Records, as the fifth single from Clean Bandit's second studio album, What Is Love? (2018). The song was written by Diamandis, Matthew Knott, Fonsi, Jack Patterson, and Camille Purcell.
An accompanying music video was released the same day, where an unnamed bride (portrayed by Grace Chatto) marrying the groom (Fonsi), revealing flashbacks of having a thwarted relationship with a wedding guest (Starley), while attending summer camp. Clean Bandit later performed "Baby" on television programme Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. It marked as Marina's first single where she is not credited under her previous stage name and later appeared on her fourth studio album, Love + Fear (2019). A version without Fonsi appears on the album's vinyl release.
Commercially, it topped the charts in Israel (Media Forest), the song debuted at number fifteen in the United Kingdom (Official Singles Chart), while it reached the top twenty in Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland, Lebanon, and Scotland. "Baby" was later certified in Poland and the United Kingdom.
Baby is composed in the key of C minor. Lyrically, the song deals with a love triangle, with the singer telling somebody that they are "already someone else's".[1]
The song has a tempo of 117 beats per minute, and has a time signature of common time. It also features a complete descending circle of fifths, which propels the music forward throughout the circle of fifths and back to C minor.
Promotion
On 29 October 2018, the group announced the release on Twitter and shared its cover art.[1] On 2 November 2018, the group performed on BBC Two's Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two.
Critical reception
Mike Wass of Idolator called the preview of the song a "sultry banger that already sounds like a hit", saying Marina "coos" the line "But I'm already someone else's baby" over Clean Bandit's "seductive, Latin-tinged house beats".[2] Billboard labelled "Baby" a "flamenco-infused track", opining that Fonsi's verse in Spanish provides it with a "distinctive Latin flare".[3]
Music video
Clean Bandit also released the video on YouTube on 2 November 2018.[4] The video features Fonsi, Marina, Grace Chatto, and Australian singer Starley.[5] Chatto portrays an unnamed bride who marries Fonsi's character as it is revealed via flashbacks that she had a thwarted relationship with Starley’s character—now a wedding guest—while attending summer camp.[6] The wedding scene was shot at the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.[7]
Track listing
- Digital download
- "Baby" – 3:25
- Digital download – acoustic[8]
- "Baby" (acoustic) – 3:37
- Digital download – remixes[9]
- "Baby" (Martin Jensen remix) – 3:02
- "Baby" (Sammy Porter remix) – 3:28
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