Sweet Spot (Kim Petras song)

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"Sweet Spot"
Kim Petras - Sweet Spot.jpg
Promotional single by Kim Petras
from the album Clarity
ReleasedMay 13, 2019 (2019-05-13)
Genre
Length3:14
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)

"Sweet Spot" is a song by German singer Kim Petras from her debut mixtape Clarity (2019). It was released as the fourth promotional single from the album on May 13, 2019, by BunHead Records. Petras released this song among others from the same project in preparation for her North American tour.

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Reception

Rolling Stone commented on how the track had the potential to be the song of the summer, [1] while multiple music critics and journalists, such as Jordan Miller of BreatheHeavy, Jeremy Helligar of Variety, and Nick Levine of NME compared the track to Kylie Minogue's works, including her albums Light Years and Fever . [2] [3] [4]

Track listing

  • Digital download
  • streaming [5] [6]
  1. "Sweet Spot" – 3:14

Credits and personnel

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Various13 May 2019BunHead

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