"Fun" is the lead single from Blondie's eleventh studio album ''

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''. It was released on February 1, 2017, on all major online platforms. On February 13, 2017, the single was released as a 7-inch single in the UK. The single included the

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penned track "My Monster" as a

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. Several remixes were made for the track, and released on digital singles on March 8.

Reception

The single made the UK radio Airplay charts in early February 2017, reaching number 22 on February 24, 2017. The single was also chosen as ''Record of the Week'' on BBC Radio 2 and added to their A-List of songs which are the most played on the station. In the Official Charts, Fun debuted at number 3 in the UK Physical Chart Top 100 and at number 2 in the Vinyl Singles Top 40. The single spent eight weeks in the top 10 in both charts. On the ''Billboard''

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chart for the issue dated May 13, 2017, the single reached number 1. It is Blondie's most successful single worldwide since 1999's "

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Music video

The official music video directed by Dikayl Rimmasch was released on February 15, 2017. It begins with an astronaut played by actor

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who is hurtling through space along with black and white clips of the band playing the track. The astronaut lands on Mars and meets an intergalactic character (played by

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). Then the androgynous male, actor Daeg Faerch, astronaut goes to Earth and the video concludes with a

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-like nightclub party followed by the astronaut flying off into space again. Rimmasch described the main character as "a beautiful androgynous kid kind of drugged-out, cruising to Mars and finding a party there." Speaking of the narrative he said "the whole trip was in this character's mind. We didn’t want to take the sci-fi elements too seriously, so we did these light-hearted animations and shot in this minimal Apollo capsule set."

Track listings

Charts

References

{{authority control 2017 singles 2017 songs Blondie (band) songs Songs written by Dave Sitek Songs written by Erik Hassle