Electricity (Silk City and Dua Lipa song)

"Electricity"
A picture of Dua Lipa with appears on the left side of a black and yellow card. The right side features her name along with Silk City's, as well as the cities London, Paris, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, and New York.
Single by Silk City featuring Dua Lipa, Diplo and Mark Ronson[note 1]
from the EP Electricity
Released6 September 2018 (2018-09-06)
RecordedMarch 2018
Studio
Genre
Length3:58
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Silk City
Silk City singles chronology
"Loud"
(2018) 		"Electricity"
(2018) 		"New Love"
(2021)
Dua Lipa singles chronology
"One Kiss"
(2018) 		"Electricity"
(2018) 		"Swan Song"
(2019)
Music video
"Electricity" on YouTube

"Electricity" is a song by British-American music duo Silk City and English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa featuring American DJ Diplo and British-American DJ Mark Ronson.[note 1] The song was written by Silk City members: Ronson and Diplo, alongside Lipa, Diana Gordon, Romy Madley Croft, Jr Blender, Maxime Picard, Clément Picard, Jacob Olofsson and Rami Dawod. The production was handled by Silk City with additional production from Picard Brothers, Jarami, Riton, Alex Metric, and Blender. It was released for digital download and streaming through Columbia Records and Sony Music on 6 September 2018 as the fourth single from Silk City's debut 2019 extended play (EP) of the same name. The song was later included on Dua Lipa: Complete Edition (2018), the super deluxe reissue of Lipa's eponymous debut studio album.

Musically, "Electricity" draws from Chicago house and 1990s music, and includes elements of disco-house, diva house and electropop. It is a dance-pop and piano house song that lyrically sees a couple who has found a kindred spirit, with one party also comforting the other. Several music critics commended Silk City's production as well as its lyrics. It won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards and appeared on year-end lists from publications including Billboard, The New York Times and Popjustice. The song reached number 4 and 62 respectively on the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100, and has a platinum certification in both countries.

The music video for "Electricity" was directed by Bradley & Pablo, and is set during the Northeast blackout of 2003. In the video, Lipa throws a party in her loft, where she turns the power back on with her dance moves, while Ronson and Diplo get stuck in an elevator. Critics praised Lipa's performance in the video. The song was also accompanied by a vertical video and dance video. Silk City and Lipa promoted the song with numerous live performances, including ones at the American Music Awards of 2018, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. The song has received several remixes, including ones by the Black Madonna and MK.

  1. ^ Dua Lipa: Complete Edition (liner notes). Dua Lipa. Warner Bros. Records. 2018. 0190295559489.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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