"Baby" is a song by British electronic music group Clean Bandit featuring Welsh singer Marina and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi,released as the fifth single from Clean Bandit's second album,What Is Love?,on 2 November 2018.[2]
"Baby" is Marina's first single where she is not credited as Marina and the Diamonds,a stage name she had used on prior releases. It is included on her fourth studio album,Love + Fear. A version without Fonsi appears on the album's vinyl release.
Composition
Baby is composed in the key of C minor. Lyrically,the song deals with a love triangle,with the singer telling somebody that they are "already someone else's".
The song has a tempo of 117 beats per minute,and has a time signature of common time. It also features a complete descending circle of fifths,which propels the music forward throughout the circle of fifths and back to C minor.
Promotion
On 29 October 2018,the group announced the release on Twitter and shared its cover art.[2] On 2 November 2018,the group performed on BBC Two's Strictly Come Dancing:It Takes Two.
Critical reception
Mike Wass of Idolator called the preview of the song a "sultry banger that already sounds like a hit",saying Marina "coos" the line "But I'm already someone else's baby" over Clean Bandit's "seductive,Latin-tinged house beats".[3]Billboard labelled "Baby" a "flamenco-infused track",opining that Fonsi's verse in Spanish provides it with a "distinctive Latin flare".[4]
Music video
Clean Bandit also released the video on YouTube on 2 November 2018.[5] The video features Fonsi,Marina,Grace Chatto,and Australian singer Starley.[6] Chatto portrays an unnamed bride who marries Fonsi's character as it is revealed via flashbacks that she had a thwarted relationship with another woman—now a wedding guest—while attending summer camp.[7]
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↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 2. týden 2019 in the date selector. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
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