"Unlock It" is a 2017 song by

Charli XCX Charlotte Emma Aitchison (born 2 August 1992), known professionally as Charli XCX, is an English singer and songwriter. Born in Cambridge and raised in Start Hill, Essex, she began posting songs on Myspace in 2008, which led to her discovery b ...

featuring

Kim Petras Kim Petras (born 27 August 1992) is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Between 2016 and 2020, she released music as an independent artist under her own imprint, BunHead Records, before signing with Amigo and Republ ...

and

Jay Park Jay Park ( Korean name: Park Jae-beom (Hangul: 박재범; Hanja: 朴載範); born April 25, 1987) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and entrepreneur of based in South Korea. He is a member of the Seattle-based ...

from XCX's mixtape '' Pop 2''. It samples A. G. Cook's "Beautiful", and was renamed "Unlock It (Lock It)" in 2021 after going viral on

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. In 2022,

Piri & Tommy Piri & Tommy are an English drum and bass group, formed in 2021. The group are formed of Sophie "Piri" McBurnie and Tommy Villiers. The pair charted at number 99 on the UK Singles Chart with their single " On & On". They released their debut ...

released a cover that ''

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'' rated as the 14th best song of 2022.

Charli XCX version

's version was released on 11 December 2017, four days before the release of its parent mixtape '' Pop 2''. The song samples "Beautiful" by A. G. Cook, who also produced the album, and features a spoken word chorus. A mashup remix of the song by American DJ/producer Jeff Prior went viral in 2021 after being used in an accompanying dance on TikTok, eventually soundtracking 2,400,000 videos. On 2 May 2021, she updated the song's title to streaming platforms to "Unlock It (Lock It)"; after being criticised for this, she took to

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to explain herself. XCX's version was described by Indiependent.co.uk as a "hyperpop classic", while

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described it as having " power chorus, pure electronic happiness, bold, computerized melodies, and lyrics that offer cosmic escapism", and offered particular praise for the line "cosmic kiss, tastes like cherry maraschino", calling it "sweetly satisfying".

Piri & Tommy version

released a cover version of the song in 2022 to streaming platforms on 11 November 2022 under the

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title "unlock it". They had previously released the song as an

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exclusive on 13 September 2022, five days after opening for

at a Brighton concert, accompanied by an acoustic version of " on & on". Their version of the song was described by Indiependent.co.uk as a "blend fbubblegum pop and drum & bass", while

described the song as "reminiscent of the original utdeliver nga more laidback edge",

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's vocals as "silky smooth, laced in AutoTune, ndbathed in reverb and delay", the song's drums as having "a low fidelity edge" and Tommy's production as "clean and polished, opting for a less-is-more approach with a batch of gloss synthesisers and a deep sub bass". In addition, their version of the song was rated as the fourteenth best song of 2022 by ''

''.

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