Shortly after, "Levitating" was written, which is the first track recorded that appears on the album's final track listing. Lipa promoted the single with live performances on The Graham Norton Show, at the American Music Awards of 2020, and on Saturday Night Live.Ĭanadian actor Mike Myers and his Austin Powers films provided inspiration for "Levitating".Īfter figuring out the title of her second studio album, Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa began working backwards, figuring out the sound she desired. The video is centred around Lipa and DaBaby dancing in an art deco-styled elevator, with many TikTok users in the cast. The DaBaby remix received a music video that was directed by Warren Fu and created in partnership with social media platform TikTok. It sees many people under the influence of a mysterious planet, and being obsessed with a maze-like symbol. The Will Hooper-directed music video for the Blessed Madonna's remix was filmed in London and Atlanta and has a theme of "love conquers all". "Levitating" was promoted with the release of two music videos, one for each of its respective remixes. The song was awarded a Platinum certification in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It also reached number two on the Billboard Global 200 chart, and became #1 on the 2021 year-end chart.
This song is also the longest-charting song by a female artist on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending a total of 77 weeks on the chart and placing it 5th overall. It also ranks in the top 40 of its All-Time list. Despite not reaching number one in the United States, "Levitating" was named the number-one song of 2021, becoming the fourth single to accomplish this feat and the first single to do so since Lifehouse's " Hanging by a Moment" in 2001. "Levitating" reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lipa's seventh top-five single in the UK and second in the US.
The remix has the same production used in the original, with DaBaby adding a pop rap verse and intro. The remix impacted contemporary hit radio formats in the United States on 6 October 2020, serving as the album's third single in the country. A second remix featuring American rapper DaBaby was released for the same formats on 1 October 2020 in promotion of the bonus edition of Future Nostalgia, as the album's fifth single. It was categorised as an EDM, electro-disco, electro house, future bass, and techno track, with a throwback disco and trance vibe, and an increased tempo from the original.
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The lyrics describe the idea of "levitating" when falling in love, with several outer space references.Ī remix of "Levitating" by American DJ the Blessed Madonna featuring Madonna and Missy Elliott was released for digital download and streaming on 13 August 2020 as the lead single from Lipa and the Blessed Madonna's remix album Club Future Nostalgia (2020). It incorporates elements of dance-pop, pop-funk, power pop and space rock, as well as 1970s, 1980s and 1990s pop and R&B styles. The song is an electro-disco and nu-disco song with several disco tropes. The song was written by Lipa, Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, and Koz, who produced the song with Stuart Price, and stemmed from a Roland VP-330 synthesizer sample played by Koz. " Levitating" is a song by English singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020).
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