Last Night (Ricki-Lee Coulter song)

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"Last Night"
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Single by Ricki-Lee Coulter
Released12 June 2020 (2020-06-12)
Recorded2019–20 [1]
Genre Dance-pop [2]
Length3:18
Label Black Label Entertainment
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Throttle [1]
Ricki-Lee Coulter singles chronology
"Unbothered"
(2018)		"Last Night"
(2020)		"On My Own"
(2023)

"Last Night" is a song recorded by Australian singer and songwriter Ricki-Lee Coulter. It was written by Coulter and Australian DJ Throttle, [3] and was released independently via Black Label Entertainment on 12 June 2020. Upon release the song topped the iTunes chart in Australia. [4]

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Background

Coulter announced the single and its release date on 1 June 2020 through Instagram. [5]

"Last Night" is Coulter's first music release in two years, [6] following the 2018 single "Unbothered". In an interview with Sunrise , Coulter announced its release and said "I'm pumped for you to hear this song, it's been a long time coming."

Music forum auspOp described the single as "her returning to her dance/pop roots" with Coulter explaining:

"When I toured last year – it reminded me how much my fans love me for uplifting, feel-good music they can dance to. I played the State Theatre in Sydney, which is usually filled with quite a conservative crowd, but after the show they told me they had never seen a crowd jumping up and down and singing like that! And it made me realise I've gotta give the fans what they want, what they love." [7]

Reception

In a review of the song, Women In Pop said 'Last Night' was "a sensuous, low key banger with a pulsing bassline reminiscent of 70s funk married with a multi-layered cascade of electronic beats". [8] Thomas Bleach described the song as "an apocalyptic pop song that radiates love, and explores that pure infatuation that charges through [Ricki-Lee's] veins when she's around [her husband]" and that it "makes you want to hit a crowded dance floor immediately". [9] Out in Perth described it as "a song for our times" and said it's "the kind of dance tune we all love to gear [ sic ] from the Australian singer". [10]

Track listing

Digital download [11]
No.TitleLength
1."Last Night"3:18

Charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australia Airplay (Radiomonitor) [12] 28
Australia Digital Song Sales ( Billboard ) [13] 3

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
Australia12 June 2020 [11] Black Label Entertainment

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