Colorado (Milky Chance song)

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"Colorado"
Colorado Milky Chance.jpg
Single by Milky Chance
from the album Trip Tape
Released18 June 2021 (2021-06-18)
Genre
Length2:54
Label Muggelig
Songwriter(s)
  • Clemens Rehbein
  • Joacim Bo Persson
  • Philipp Maximilian Dausch
  • Sebastian Arman
Producer(s)
  • Milky Chance
  • Decco
Milky Chance singles chronology
"Don't Let Me Down"
(2020)
"Colorado"
(2021)
Music video
"Colorado" on YouTube

"Colorado" is a song by German folk rock band Milky Chance. It was released on 18 June 2021 as a single from the band's debut compilation album Trip Tape. The band's members Clemens Rehbein and Philipp Maximilian Dausch wrote the song with Joacim Bo Persson and Sebastian Arman, and produced it with Decco. [1]

Contents

Content

The band's vocalist and guitarist Clemens Rehbein told American Songwriter : "It's about consuming and compensating and being destructive or being weak for a moment, We all need it sometimes, but we also know it probably doesn’t bring us anywhere in the long run. This is what the song is about not to forget—with a little wink in the end. It's very honest but also not taking itself too seriously at the same time. We feel like that's a very realistic and maybe healthy way to look at this life we're all in". [2] Wonderland magazine described "Colorado" as "a vibrant, up-tempo tune about the uneasiness of failed relationships, and horse tranquiliser". [3]

Music video

The music video was released on 18 June 2021, and directed by Vincent Sylvain. It was filmed at "a visibly striking but faded hotel", with scenes set in the late 1970s. The band members play both employees and guests "engaged in strange, questionable, and hallucinatory practices". They end up in room 420, where they are "surrounded by swan-shaped towels, the[n] strum, sing, and fall into a trance". [4]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [5]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Colorado"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria) [16] Platinum30,000
Canada (Music Canada) [17] Gold40,000
Germany (BVMI) [18] Gold200,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history for "Colorado"
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
Various18 June 2021
  • Digital download
  • streaming
Muggelig [19]
United States29 June 2021 Alternative radio [20]

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