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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 Panic! at the Disco,

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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

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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. *

Colin Brittain Colin Cunningham known as Colin Brittain is an American songwriter and producer signed to Warner Chappell Music. He has written and produced for acts such as Papa Roach, Hands Like Houses, Basement, Dashboard Confessional, 5 Seconds of Summ ...

– producer, mixer, writer * Dwilly – producer *

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

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

References

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