Dance with Me (Blink-182 song)

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"Dance with Me"
Single by Blink-182
from the album One More Time...
ReleasedOctober 5, 2023 (2023-10-05)
Recorded2022–2023
Genre
Length3:08
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Travis Barker
Blink-182 singles chronology
"One More Time" / "More Than You Know"
(2023)
"Dance with Me"
(2023)
"Fell in Love"
(2023)
Music video
"Dance with Me" on YouTube

"Dance with Me" is a song recorded by American rock band Blink-182. The song was released on October 5, 2023, through Columbia Records as the fourth single from their ninth album One More Time... . It was written by bassist Mark Hoppus, guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker, alongside engineer Aaron Rubin and songwriter Nick Long.

Contents

Background

The song opens with a crude, spoken-word joke from DeLonge: "When I teach masturbation, I'm always just like, 'Have fun with it.'" [1] Throughout the song, DeLonge encourages a partner to dance, with lyrics like "I've been waiting around to lose / So dumb, trying to make believe / You're mine, what are you gonna do / Come here, do you want to come dance with me?" [2] Columnists for Spin observed the song shares a title with another song by T.S.O.L., one of DeLonge's preferred groups. [3]

Music video

The song's music video is a tribute to the Ramones. Ramones rocket to russia photo.jpg
The song's music video is a tribute to the Ramones.

The song's music video was intended as a "love letter" to the Ramones, one of their biggest influences. [4] It finds the band dressing up in the style of the Ramones, including wigs, sunglasses, and leather jackets. [5] [6] The clip begins with an interview (featuring Lisa Gilroy as host), spoofing the Ramones' 1981 interview on The Tomorrow Show . [7] [8] As the song begins, the video switches to the three seated at a table—a reference to the 1988 "I Wanna Be Sedated" visual [9] —while doctors, nurses (with one portraying the nurse from the band's own Enema of the State album cover), clowns, cheerleaders, construction workers, brides, and various other people run around. The footage is intercut with shots of the band playing at a CBGB-style backdrop, [10] as well as posing in front of a brick wall, a la the Ramones' famous debut album cover. [11]

The video was directed by the Malloys, [4] with whom the band last collaborated with on the 2001 videos for "The Rock Show" and "First Date".

Reception

"Dance with Me" was well-received among music critics. Kate Solomon at The Guardian observed: "Blink have not lost their knack for crafting thumping choruses before hitting you with a ghostly, mesmeric bridge to remind you that life is fleeting and you might as well be in a sweaty pile of bodies yelling “olé olé olé” while you’re here." [12] Bobby Olivier at Spin called it "a high-tempo party cut with its deliciously dopey chorus [...] Is it a little hollow? Sure, but you'll be singing before the tune is finished." [13] Uproxx writer Danielle Chelosky described the "clamorous" song "as fun as it is loud, and the lyrics are as chaotic as the sound." [2] Helen Brown from The Independent commended its energy and "pelting pace," [14] while Gil Kaufman of Billboard described "Dance with Me" as a "raucous pop-punk tune". [11]

Many reviewers found the song evocative of the band's older material, in a positive way. Stereogum editorialist Pranav Trewn viewed the song as a "real gem" that earns its place among "pre-hiatus material on a setlist." [15] Emma Wilkes from NME concurred: the "gloriously sticky hook is instantly memorable and is silly enough to have been a relic from Blink’s most popular era." [16] Matt Collar from AllMusic considered the song a "classic Blink-anthem that wouldn't sound out of place" on its millennial albums. [17]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the song's YouTube video. [18]

Blink-182

Additional Musician

Production

Charts

Chart performance for "Dance with Me"
Chart (2023)Peak
position
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [19] 23
UK Singles (OCC) [20] 55
UK Rock & Metal (OCC) [21] 6
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [22] 28

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