Upon reaching its tenth week at the top of the Australian Singles Chart, "Dance Monkey" broke the record for the most weeks at number one on the chart by an Australian artist. The music video was filmed at Eynesbury Golf Club, Victoria, Australia. As of May 2023, the video has over 2.01 billion views on YouTube. In 2020 it was added to APRA billion streams list. Tones" (played by Tones and I), an elderly man who sneaks out of a care home with his friends so they can go to a golf course and have a dance party with other senior citizens.ĭue to the overcast weather on the day of filming, every shot of the music video had its sky replaced digitally.
Liam Kelly and Nick Kozakis directed the music video, which was released on 24 June 2019, produced by Visible Studios. So if you replace : 'dance for me, dance for me' with 'sing for me, sing for me,' it's pretty literal," she said. to command attention, people would be like: 'again! again!'. we are all so used to being entertained at the click of a button." And if they didn't like it, when they looked at their phones they could just click something else. "I wrote this song when I was busking, and about the pressure that I felt to always be entertaining people on the street. When interviewed by DJ Smallzy in July 2019 on Australian radio station Nova FM, Tones explained that Dance Monkey's lyrics are about the relationship she had with her audience when she was busking (street performing) on the streets of Australia:
It was also the Grand Prize winner of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition. It won Best Pop Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, Song of the Year at the APRA Music Awards of 2020 and Independent Song of the Year at the AIR Awards of 2020. The song has received a number of awards. When it hit number four in the US, it became the first top-five hit solely written by a woman in over eight years. It also broke the record for the most weeks spent at the top of the UK Singles Chart by a female artist with 11 weeks at the top. The song broke the record for the most weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart at 24 non-consecutive weeks. "Dance Monkey" topped the official singles charts in over 30 countries and peaked within the top ten of many others, including the United States.
The song was produced and mixed by Konstantin Kersting. " Dance Monkey" is a song by Australian singer Tones and I, released on as the second single (first in the US) from Tones and I's debut EP The Kids Are Coming.
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