No New Friends (LSD song)

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"No New Friends"
LSD - No New Friends.png
Remixes version cover artwork
Single by LSD
from the album LSD
Released14 March 2019
Genre Pop
Length2:55
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
LSD singles chronology
"Mountains"
(2018)		"No New Friends"
(2019)
Music video
"No New Friends" on YouTube

"No New Friends", sometimes titled "Know New Friends", [1] is a song by LSD from the group's album of the same name, released by Columbia Records on 14 March 2019. [2] The song serves as the album's fifth and final single, following "Genius", "Audio", "Thunderclouds", and "Mountains". [3]

Contents

Composition

The members of LSD, from left to right: Labrinth, Sia and Diplo LSD members.png
The members of LSD, from left to right: Labrinth, Sia and Diplo

"No New Friends" is a pop song with electronic dance music (EDM) influences, [4] and has a "thumping" dance beat with "bouncy" synth loops by Diplo, as well as harmonized vocals by Sia and Labrinth. Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone describes the song's bridge as "reminiscent of a boozy piano ballad". [3]

Release and promotion

Sia confirmed the song's release date via Twitter on 12 March 2019. [5] The group performed "No New Friends" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2019. [6]

Reception

Billboard 's Kat Bein described "No New Friends" as a "bright, rhythm-led tune that pops warm and sunny like spring for your ears", and "infectiously catchy with a touch of the islands that celebrates the buddies we already have". [7] Derrick Rossignol of Uproxx called the song "upbeat" and "an ode to appreciating what you have". He wrote, "The song gives everybody a chance to shine, thanks to Sia's idiosyncratic vocals, Labrinth's hip-hop energy, and Diplo’s EDM-influenced pop production that ties everything together." [4]

Music video

The official music video for the song was released on 16 April 2019. Rolling Stone 's review called the video "an appropriately fantastical visual" and described it as follows: "The clip, directed by Dano Cerny and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, stars Sia's sixteen-year-old body double Maddie Ziegler as a giant. She encounters the pink-clad Labrinth in a Dr. Seussian land of puff-ball trees and whimsical puffy clouds, and the two quickly form a bond. They frolic through the trees, stare up at cloud formations and encounter human-sized clones of Ziegler dancing giddily on a hillside. Diplo appears later in the video as a floating sun and moon, and as another giant who towers over Ziegler." [8]

Track listing

  1. "No New Friends" (Dombresky Remix) – 4:06
  2. "No New Friends" (Aaron Redding Remix) – 2:48

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes of LSD.

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100) [10] 90
China Airplay/FL ( Billboard ) [11] 21
France (SNEP) [12] 173
Ireland (IRMA) [13] 61
Israel (Media Forest TV Airplay) [14] 1
Lebanon English (Lebanese Top 20) [15] 17
Lithuania (AGATA) [16] 60
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [17] 10
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100) [18] 78
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan) [19] 8

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [20] Gold40,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [21] Gold10,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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