Baby (Clean Bandit song)

"Baby"
Single by Clean Bandit featuring Marina and Luis Fonsi
from the album What Is Love?
Language
  • English
  • Spanish
Released2 November 2018 (2018-11-02)
Studio
Length3:25
LabelAtlantic
Songwriters
Producers
Clean Bandit singles chronology
"Solo"
(2018)		 "Baby"
(2018)		 "Mama"
(2019)
Marina singles chronology
"Disconnect"
(2017)		 "Baby"
(2018)		 "Handmade Heaven"
(2019)
Luis Fonsi singles chronology
"Imposible"
(2018)		 "Baby"
(2018)		 "Sola"
(2019)
Music video
"Baby" on YouTube

"Baby" is a song by the English electronic music group Clean Bandit, featuring guest vocals from Welsh singer Marina and Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi. It was released on 2 November 2018 through Atlantic Records, as the fifth single from Clean Bandit's second studio album, What Is Love? (2018). The song was written by Diamandis, Matthew Knott, Fonsi, Jack Patterson, and Camille Purcell.

An accompanying music video was released the same day, where an unnamed bride (portrayed by Grace Chatto) marrying the groom (Fonsi), revealing flashbacks of having a thwarted relationship with a wedding guest (Starley), while attending summer camp. Clean Bandit later performed "Baby" on television programme Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. It marked as Marina's first single where she is not credited under her previous stage name and later appeared on her fourth studio album, Love + Fear (2019); a version without Fonsi appears on the album's vinyl release.

Commercially, the song topped the charts in Israel (Media Forest), and debuted at number fifteen in the United Kingdom (Official Singles Chart), while it reached the top twenty in Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland, Lebanon, and Scotland. "Baby" was later certified gold both in Poland and the United Kingdom.

Background and release

During the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2015, the English electronic music group Clean Bandit brought out Welsh singer Marina Diamandis (who was previously known Marina as and the Diamonds) onto the main stage and performed an unreleased track, that was then titled as "Disconnect".[1] They next year, Diamandis tweeted the band to inquire about the song's official release date in 2016,[2] which later bandmate Grace Chatto explained in an interview with BBC News that the song "had been through several permutations before they got it right".[3] It was later surprise-released on 23 June 2017, coinciding with their scheduled performace at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.[4]

After releasing "Solo" featuring American singer Demi Lovato,[5] Clean Bandit subsequently announced their second studio album, What Is Love?, on 27 September 2018 along with its track listing. It showed a second collaboration with Diamandis, titled "Baby" with Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi.[6]

On 29 October 2018, the group announced the release on Twitter and shared its cover art. On 2 November 2018, the group performed on BBC Two's Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two.

Composition and reception

Baby is composed in the key of C minor. Lyrically, the song deals with a love triangle, with the singer telling somebody that they are "already someone else's".[7]

The song has a tempo of 117 beats per minute, and has a time signature of common time. It also features a complete descending circle of fifths, which propels the music forward throughout the circle of fifths and back to C minor.

Mike Wass of Idolator called the preview of the song a "sultry banger that already sounds like a hit", saying Marina "coos" the line "But I'm already someone else's baby" over Clean Bandit's "seductive, Latin-tinged house beats".[8] Billboard labelled "Baby" a "flamenco-infused track", opining that Fonsi's verse in Spanish provides it with a "distinctive Latin flare".[9]

Music video

Clean Bandit also released the video on YouTube on 2 November 2018.[10] The video features Fonsi, Marina, Grace Chatto, and Australian singer Starley.[11] Chatto portrays an unnamed bride who marries Fonsi's character as it is revealed via flashbacks that she had a thwarted relationship with Starley’s character—now a wedding guest—while attending summer camp.[12] The wedding scene was shot at the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.[13]

Track listing

  • Digital download/streaming
  1. "Baby" – 3:25
  • Digital download/streaming – acoustic[14]
  1. "Baby" (acoustic) – 3:37
  • Digital download/streaming – remixes[15]
  1. "Baby" (Martin Jensen remix) – 3:02
  2. "Baby" (Sammy Porter remix) – 3:28

Credits and personnel

Credits were adapted from the liner notes of Love + Fear.[16]

  • Clean Bandit – lead artist
  • Marina – featured vocals
  • Luis Fonsi – featured vocals
  • Jack Patterson – engineering, guitar, keyboards, mixing
  • Luke Patterson – piano, percussion, additional drums, trumpet
  • Mark Ralph – guitar, mixing
  • Nakajin – acoustic guitar
  • Grace Chatto – bass
  • Alex Robinson – engineering
  • Mike Horner – engineering
  • Ray Charles Brown Jr. – engineering
  • Ross Fortune – engineering
  • Tom AD Fuller – engineering
  • Greg Eliason – assistant engineering

Charts

Certifications

List of certifications with units and/or sales
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)[50] Gold 25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[51] Gold 400,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

List of release dates and formats
Region Date Format Version Label Ref.
Various 2 November 2018 Original Atlantic
Italy 9 November 2018 Contemporary hit radio Warner [52]
United Kingdom 16 November 2018 [53]
Various
  • Digital download
  • streaming
 Acoustic Atlantic [14]
23 November 2018 Remixes [15]
30 November 2018

References

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  2. ↑ Patrick Crowley (23 June 2017). "This Week's Gay Agenda: Marina and the Diamonds, Cyndi Lauper and a French adult film star". Billboard. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Savage, Mark (23 June 2017). "Glastonbury 2017: Clean Bandit release song after 'abusive' tweets". BBC News. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Levine, Nick (23 June 2017). "Marina and the Diamonds shares surprise new song "Disconnect" with Clean Bandit". NME. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Enos, Morgan (10 May 2018). "Clean Bandit teases new single "Solo" featuring Demi Lovato". Billboard. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
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  7. ↑ Ding, Sophie (29 October 2018). "Clean Bandit Announce New Single 'Baby' Featuring Luis Fonsi and Marina". Billboard. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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  9. ↑ Bowenbank, Starr (2 November 2018). "Clean Bandit Team up With Marina and Luis Fonsi for New Single 'Baby': Stream It Now". Billboard. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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  14. 1 2 References regarding the release of "Baby (featuring Marina and Luis Fonsi) [Acoustic]" by Clean Bandit on Apple Music:
  15. 1 2 "Baby (feat. Marina and the Diamonds & Luis Fonsi) [Remixes] – Single by Clean Bandit on Apple Music". iTunes. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
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