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"One Right Now" is a song by American rapper
Post Malone Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including hip-hop, Pop music, pop, Contemporary R&B, R&B, Tra ...
and Canadian singer
the Weeknd Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known for adding Pop music, pop, electronic music, electronic and hip-hop stylings ...
. It was released through
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on November 5, 2021, as the lead single from Malone's fourth studio album, ''
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'' (2022). The artists wrote the song with Billy Walsh and producers
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, Brian Lee, and Andrew Bolooki. "One Right Now" is a
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song that is set in the key of
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.


Background

The Weeknd initially wrote and recorded the song during recording sessions for his fourth studio album, ''
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''. Although it wasn't included on the record, an 11-second snippet of the demo was leaked online in December 2020. On November 2, 2021, Post Malone and the Weeknd posted a 7-second snippet of the song titled "PM&TW-ORN-Update.5.nonhyped.w1.mp3" on their
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accounts. The post received over 150,000 likes in one hour. It was initially unknown what the title of the collaboration would be until Malone's manager Dre London revealed the title "One Right Now". The song marks the first time the artists appeared on a song together.


Composition

Based on the teaser, the sound was described as "a synthy midtempo club track". It sees the two "harmonizing over an upbeat instrumental". Writing for ''
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'', Starr Bowenbank referred to the instrumental as a "poppy synth beat". Alex Zidel of ''HotNewHipHop'' predicted that the song will "dominate the radio for the remainder of the year, and likely well into next". For the radio version, The Weeknd replaced his lyric censors from the official clean version with the newly recorded lyrics "You think it's so easy messin' with my feelings" and "You probably slap all my enemies". Post Malone left his lyric censors as they were. They both sang "That you told me that he fucked you on" twice, separate then together, and tying to Post Malone's record label, it was also left censored.


Music video

The music video for "One Right Now", directed by
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, was released on November 15, 2021. In the video, Malone and the Weeknd engage in a shootout with each other's teams. It features the two artists as "vengeful enemies" in an "elaborate scenario," according to ''
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'', that ends in a shoot-out where both are killed after shooting each other at the same time. The video also mentioned MoonPay, a cryptocurrency company that had paid Post Malone and The Weeknd for the placement.


Personnel

Credits adapted from
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and
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Post Malone Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including hip-hop, Pop music, pop, Contemporary R&B, R&B, Tra ...
– vocals, songwriting *
The Weeknd Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known for adding Pop music, pop, electronic music, electronic and hip-hop stylings ...
– vocals, songwriting *
Louis Bell Louis Russell Bell (born May 27, 1982) is an American record producer, vocal producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer. Bell's work includes production for Post Malone, Camila Cabello, Halsey, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, 5 Seconds of Summer, ...
– songwriting, production, recording engineering, vocal production, keyboards, synthesizer, programming, drums * Andrew Bolooki – songwriting, production, programming, synthesizer *Brian Lee – songwriting, production * Billy Walsh – songwriting * Manny Marroquin – mixing * Mike Bozzi – mastering


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* * {{The Weeknd songs 2021 singles 2021 songs Post Malone songs Republic Records singles The Weeknd songs Songs written by Post Malone Songs written by the Weeknd Songs written by Louis Bell Song recordings produced by Louis Bell Music videos directed by Tanu Muino Synth-pop songs