"Soft Spot" | ||||
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Single by Piri | ||||
from the album Froge.mp3 | ||||
Released | 4 June 2021 | |||
Genre | Liquid drum and bass | |||
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Label | DistroKid | |||
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Producer(s) | Tommy Villiers | |||
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Music video | ||||
"Soft Spot" music video on YouTube "Soft Spot" acoustic music video on YouTube |
"Soft Spot" (stylised in lowercase) is a liquid drum and bass song, first released independently on 4 June 2021, where it was credited to Piri. After she paid six TikTok creators to promote the song, the song was used in a video of a creator making a Japanese bench, which caused the song to go viral on that platform. Around this time, the track went viral on Spotify after featuring on the platform's "Fresh Finds" playlist. For this, EMI signed her and her producer Tommy Villiers and re-released the track under the name Piri & Tommy Villiers. The song appeared on the pair's 2022 mixtape Froge.mp3.
Critical reception for the song was overwhelmingly positive, with Pitchfork comparing Piri's voice with Ariana Grande, Rolling Stone listing it as the fifty-ninth best dance song of all time, and NME noting that the song was "right up there with PinkPantheress and, er, sea shanties" as one of TikTok’s "biggest hits". In addition, the song spent a week on the UK Independent Singles Breakers Chart at No. 20 and Charli XCX, PinkPantheress, Wet Leg, and Saint Etienne are fans of the song.