Turn Back Time (Diplo and Sonny Fodera song)

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"Turn Back Time"
Diplo Turn Back Time.jpg
Single by Diplo and Sonny Fodera
from the album Wide Awake
ReleasedNovember 20, 2020 (2020-11-20)
Genre
Length2:27
Label Higher Ground
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Diplo
  • Sonny Fodera
Diplo singles chronology
"Daylight"
(2020)
"Turn Back Time"
(2020)
"Never Gonna Forget"
(2021)
Music video
"Turn Back Time" on YouTube

"Turn Back Time" is a song by American DJ and record producer Diplo and Australian producer Sonny Fodera. It was released on November 20, 2020, via Higher Ground Records. Diplo and Sonny wrote the song with King Henry and Sasha Sloan, the latter providing uncredited vocals, and co-produced it. [3]

Contents

Background

In a press release, Fodera explained: "'Turn Back Time' was born out of a late night session with me & Diplo. I was on tour in LA at the time, playing some amazing shows, meeting some really cool people and feeling super inspired by my surroundings. I played Turn Back Time in some of my last live shows and the response was so crazy, we knew we had to release it!" [4]

Composition

Nina Chiang of EDMTunes explained that the track includes "old-school piano riffs, plus a sexy deep bassline", and described it is "a catchy, deep house track." [5] The song is written in the key of B♭ Minor, with a tempo of 124 beats per minute. [6]

Music video

The music video was released on February 11, 2021. According to the description by Rugby Scruggs of Dancing Astronaut , the video follows "an office employee who can't seem to escape a mysterious woman." [7]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [8]

Charts

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