Hold Me Tight or Don't

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"Hold Me Tight or Don't"
Fall Out Boy Hold Me Tight or Don't Remixes.jpg
Remix single
Single by Fall Out Boy
from the album Mania
ReleasedNovember 15, 2017
Genre
Length3:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Fall Out Boy singles chronology
"The Last of the Real Ones"
(2017)		"Hold Me Tight or Don't"
(2017)		"Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)"
(2018)
Music video
"Hold Me Tight or Don't" on YouTube

"Hold Me Tight or Don't" (stylised in all caps) [1] is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released on November 15, 2017, through Island Records and DCD2. It was released as the fourth single from their seventh studio album, Mania . A music video was released with the single. [2]

Contents

"Hold Me Tight or Don't (The Remixes)" was released on April 13, 2018, featuring three remixes of the song. [3]

Composition

"Hold Me Tight or Don't" was written in the key of C# minor with a vocal range of E4 to C♯6. [4]

Al Shipley of Spin called the song "trendy trop house", [5] while also comparing it to reggae. [5] Dave Simpson of The Guardian described the song as a "Shakira-type Europop wobbler". [6] The Musical Hype has described the song, particularly the lyrical content, as emo. [7]

Music video

The music video was directed by Brendan Walter and Mel Soria. It is set on Día de Muertos and features the band performing in the festival. The video also has a romantic subplot between a woman, dressed in traditional Day of the Dead costume, and a man wearing a skull mask. [1] The San Gabriel Mission Museum is visible in the background, implying the video was filmed in San Gabriel, California. [8]

Reception

Maeve McDermott of USA Today called the song a "lazy attempt" at tropical house music, [9] while Hannah Mylrea of NME felt that it is a "chiming tropical jam". [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, Pete Wentz, Andy Hurley, and Jonny Coffer

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Hold Me Tight or Don't"3:30
Digital download (remixes) [11]
No.TitleLength
1."Hold Me Tight or Don't" (Sweater Beats remix)2:59
2."Hold Me Tight or Don't" (The White Panda remix)2:40
3."Hold Me Tight or Don't" (VALNTN remix)3:17
Total length:8:54
Spotify Singles (Recorded at Spotify Studios NYC)
No.TitleLength
1."Hold Me Tight or Don't" (acoustic)3:21
2."I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (Whitney Houston cover)4:22

Personnel

Fall Out Boy [12]

Production [12]

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormatRef.
United StatesNovember 15, 2017Digital download
November 21, 2017Alternative radio [18]
Top 40 radio [19]
April 13, 2018Digital download (remixes) [11]

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  4. ↑ Patrick, Stump (5 March 2018). "Fall Out Boy "Hold Me Tight or Don't" Sheet Music in E Major (transposable) - Download & Print". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  5. 1 2 Shipley, Al. "Review: Fall Out Boy Have the Wrong Ideas About Pissing Off Punk Purists". Spin . Retrieved August 6, 2021. And the trendy trop house vibes of "Hold Me Tight or Don't" also contain shades of the jittery neurotic intensity of an Elvis Costello cod reggae track.
  6. ↑ Simpson, Dave (January 19, 2018). "Fall Out Boy: Mania review – songs to appal and appease the hardcore". The Guardian . Retrieved February 2, 2023. …while Hold Me Tight or Don't – a Shakira-type Europop wobbler with whistling – seems to have been mischievously designed to appal the hardcore.
  7. ↑ "Fall Out Boy, 'Hold Me Tight or Don't' Track Review". The Musical Hype. November 20, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2023. On the pre-chorus, the emo is amped up to the nth degree…That emo-ness continues on throughout the chorus, where it's clear this relationship needs max effort or to be curbed.
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  9. ↑ McDermott, Maeve (January 19, 2018). "Review: Fall Out Boy's 'Mania' is an unholy mess". USA Today . Retrieved January 27, 2023. Worse are the guitar-less tracks, stripping the group's music of any identifiable traits, as heard on the lazy trop-house attempts of single Hold Me Tight Or Don't.
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