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| Promotional single by Tove Lo featuring Wiz Khalifa | |
| from the album Lady Wood | |
| Released | 9 September 2016 |
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| Length | 3:44 |
| Label | Republic |
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| Producer(s) | The Struts |
"Influence" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo featuring American rapper Wiz Khalifa. It was released on 9 September 2016 as a promotional single from her second studio album Lady Wood (2016). [1]
The music video for "Influence" is a part of the short film Fairy Dust , which was directed by Tim Erem and premiered on 30 October 2016 via Lo's Vevo channel. [2]
Alim Kheraj of DIY said that the song "sees Tove Lo appropriating the masculine role of the [fuckboi]." [3] Entertainment Weekly 's Madison Vain said that the singer "admits to being an unreliable narrator on one of the album's most irresistible tracks [...] before throwing the song to Wiz Khalifa for one of his fieriest verses yet." [4] Writing for NME , Nick Levine noted that "she sings about hooking up and getting hard on [Lady Wood]", The Observer 's Kitty Empire commented "there's actually rather little scarcity value in catchy tunes in [Influence]". [5] [6] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine said that the song is "embodied by the substance-induced euphoria of [Influence]". [7]
Credits adapted from Tidal. [9]
| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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| New Zealand Heatseekers (RMNZ) [10] | 5 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [11] | 78 |
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