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. The remix was released on 10 January 2020. The song has since reached number one in Belgium (Wallonia), Slovakia and Poland, the top ten in Austria, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania and Switzerland, as well as the top 20 in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), France, Germany and Sweden. The song interpolates

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's 1998 song, "

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". Lyrically, it sees Nea singing about an

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and is inspired by events experienced by a friend of hers. Nea describes that "the song is about love that you can't attain but that you can't give up on". On

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, she explained that the opening lyrics of the song describe the moment "when you love someone so completely and the other person doesn’t feel the same thing, you just wanna put the blame on something else… The time, the timing, anything but unreturned love."

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from

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. * Linnéa Södahl – vocals, songwriting, composer *

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– songwriting, composer * Vincent Kottkamp – production, composer, guitar, mixing engineering * Hitimpulse – production, mixing engineering * Alexsej Vlasenko – composer, synthesizer * Jonas Kalisch – composer, bass * Henrik Meinke – composer, drums * Jeremy Chacon – composer, keyboards * Lex Barkey – master engineering * Jeffrey Jey (Eiffel 65) – songwriter * Maurizio Lobina (Eiffel 65) – songwriter/producer * Gabry Ponte (Eiffel 65) – producer

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