Brown Sugar (IDER song)

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"Brown Sugar"
IDER Brown Sugar.jpg
Single by IDER
from the album Emotional Education
Released1 February 2019 (2019-02-01)
Genre
Length3:36
Label Glassnote
Songwriter(s)
  • Elizabeth Somerville
  • Megan Markwick
Producer(s) Rodaidh McDonald
IDER singles chronology
"Mirror"
(2017)
"Brown Sugar"
(2019)
Music video
"Brown Sugar (Live)" on YouTube

"Brown Sugar" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter duo IDER for their debut album, Emotional Education . It was released on 1 February 2019 as the fourth single from the album.

Contents

Background and composition

"Brown Sugar" is a rhythm and blues-inspired track, which Marwick said was influenced by R&B artists such as Kendrick Lamar. [1] IDER used a Roland synthesiser heavily throughout the track. They describe the track as "an empowering song about sex." [2] [3]

Music video

The "live" music video for "Brown Sugar" was released on 31 January 2019. The video features IDER performing the song live, in a dark room with red lighting. The video was directed by frequent IDER collaborator Lewis Knaggs. [4]

Track listing

Digital download

  1. "Brown Sugar" – 3:36

Credits and personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Hosken, Patrick (28 February 2019). "IDER Tell Us How They Wrote 'Brown Sugar' As A 'Confident, Sexy, Empowered' Alt-Pop Song". MTV. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Spruch, Kirsten (19 July 2019). "UK Duo Ider Break Down Electrifying Debut Album 'Emotional Education': Exclusive". Billboard. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  3. "01 Mirror". YouTube. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
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