"Slow Motion" | ||||
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Single by Matt Champion and Jennie | ||||
from the album Mika's Laundry | ||||
Released | March 8, 2024 | |||
Recorded | 2021 | |||
Genre | Drum and bass | |||
Length | 2:46 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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Visualizer | ||||
"Slow Motion" on YouTube |
"Slow Motion" is a song by American rapper Matt Champion and South Korean singer Jennie. It was released on March 8,2024,through RCA Records as the third single from the former's debut studio album, Mika's Laundry (2024). A drum and bass song,it was written by the artists Champion and Jennie with Adam Feeney,Dijon,Henry Kwapis,Jacob Reske,and Romil Hemnani,while it was produced by Champion,Kwapis,and Dijon.
American hip-hop boy band Brockhampton,of which Matt Champion was a member,released their final two albums The Family and TM and performed their final show in November 2022,after which the band went into an indefinite hiatus. [1] Champion proceeded to embark on a solo career and released "Aphid" featuring Dijon on February 14,2024,as the lead single of his debut studio album. [2] On February 24,he followed with the release of the album's second single,"Slug",alongside its music video. [3]
Jennie released two singles as a solo artist in 2023,"You &Me" and "One of the Girls" with the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp. [4] [5] Both songs charted in the top ten of the Billboard Global 200 and the latter became the highest-charting song by a female K-pop soloist on the US Billboard Hot 100. [6] [7] [8] In December 2023,YG Entertainment confirmed that she did not renew her contract with the label for individual activities. [9] The same month,Jennie announced that she had founded her own music label named Odd Atelier. [10] "Slow Motion" marks her first release since departing from YG Entertainment and establishing her independent label. [11]
Champion and Jennie were acquainted since they both attended Coachella in April 2023,where she headlined the music festival as a member of South Korean girl group Blackpink. [12] On March 3,2024,the duo teased a collaboration by posting Instagram Stories containing snippets of an unreleased track. Both singers' vocals were audible in the snippets,and the two tagged each other in their respective posts. [13] On March 6,Champion officially announced the collaboration,entitled "Slow Motion",in a social media post containing its cover art,date and time of release,and tagged Jennie in the image. [14] Jennie reshared the image to her Instagram story and added the caption "can't wait for the world to hear our song." [15] The following day,Jennie's label Odd Atelier posted the announcement with the single's cover art on social media. [12] Upon the song's release on March 8,Champion revealed that the song would serve as the third single from his debut studio album,Mika's Laundry,due for release on March 22. [16]
On Instagram,Jennie revealed that she and Champion created "Slow Motion" about three years prior to its release. She shared,"This one’s close to my heart and I’m so excited to share its message with you all. Matt and I worked on this song three years ago and I hope you guys enjoy it as we share a piece of ourselves." [17]
Running for two minutes and 46 seconds,"Slow Motion" is a drum and bass song produced by Dijon,Henry Kwapis and Champion himself,and written by them alongside Jennie,Adam Feeney,Jacob Reske,and Romil Hemnani. RCA Records described the song as "dreamy and idyllic" in comparison to Champion's previous alternative pop track "Slug". [18] [19] It opens with Jennie softly singing over a piano backdrop,which Stereogum 's Tom Breihan likened to a "Billie Eilish-style piano ballad." The song then shifts gears to drum and bass when a jungle breakbeat kicks in,before returning back to the piano instrumentation. [20] [21] Lyrically,"Slow Motion" is a love song featuring a "heartrending ode to seasonal shifts and existential malaise," as described by Clash 's Shahzaib Hussain. [22] In the chorus,the artists sing together,"If I could stop time for real/ Would make it any easier for me to love you?/ ‘Cause you know I'm shy for you still/ So bad that it kills/ And I can't help but feel/ Like we're moving in slow motion," describing the hardships of being in love. [23]
A visualizer was released alongside the single to Matt Champion's YouTube channel on March 8,2024. Directed by Anna Pollack,the simplistic video sees the repeated visuals of an eye blinking against the light and dark. [24] It is part of a series of visuals for the album which illustrate Champion's "idyllic future",a dystopian world in which lies the titular club Mika's Laundry. [22]
Credits adapted from Apple Music. [25]
Chart (2024) | Peak position |
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New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [26] | 28 |
South Korea Download (Circle) [27] | 116 |
UK Singles Downloads (OCC) [28] | 68 |
UK Singles Sales (OCC) [29] | 71 |
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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Various | March 8,2024 | [30] |
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