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. It was released on August 13, 2021, via

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. Due to Internet memes on

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, the song has garnered over 30 million streams, and reached number one on the

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US 50 Viral chart. The song appears on Sueco's studio album ''It Was Fun While It Lasted''.

Music video

The music video was released on September 10, 2021, and directed by Alex Bittan, who also shoots for

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and

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. It describes a story about a girl "goes to a Sueco show", it holds a "drag race scene from '' Grease''", and the girl "runs into someone who has supposedly emotionally abused her, and she eventually gives in to the music, getting over this person by crowd-surfing at the Sueco show."

Chart performance

It reached number 65 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number eight on the ''

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chart, becoming Sueco's first and highest entry.

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. *

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– producer, mixer, writer * Dwilly – producer *

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– producer, writer * No Love For The Middle Child – producer * Emerson Mancini – Mastering * Andrew Migliore – writer * David Wilson – writer * William Henry Schultz – writer

Charts

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Certifications

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References

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