Connected (Stereo MC's song)

"Connected"
Single by Stereo MC's
from the album Connected
B-side
  • "Disconnected"
  • "Fever"
Released14 September 1992 (1992-09-14)[1]
Genre
Length
  • 5:16 (album version)
  • 3:59 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Stereo MC's
Stereo MC's singles chronology
"Lost in Music"
(1991) 		"Connected"
(1992) 		"Step It Up"
(1992)
Music video
"Connected" on YouTube
Audio sample

"Connected" is a song by British hip hop/electronic music group Stereo MC's. It is the title track of their third studio album, and was released in September 1992 as the album's lead single. The song samples "Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover)" by Jimmy "Bo" Horne[3] and peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. Internationally, "Connected" peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Austria, Sweden and Switzerland, and entered the top 20 of the charts in Belgium, Finland and the United States. Its music video was directed by Matthew Amos. NME and Melody Maker ranked "Connected" number 16 and 19 in their list of "Singles of the Year" in December 1992.[4][5] The song later appeared in the 1995 movie Hackers, and it was the theme to the Rob Lowe programme Dr. Vegas (2004).

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 12 September 1992. p. 19.
  2. ^ "Stereo MC's - DEEP DOWN & DIRTY - la recensione". rockol.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  3. ^ Cromelin, Richard (13 May 1993). "Stereo MC's: Rapping to the Top With an English Beat : Pop music: One of the few U.K. rap acts to gain a foothold in the United States, the band's 'Connected' is moving up the singles charts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  4. ^ "NME Singles of the Year". NME. 19 December 1992. p. 21. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Singles of the Year". Melody Maker. 19 December 1992. p. 68. Retrieved 29 March 2023.