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"No New Friends"
Remixes version cover artwork
Single by LSD
from the album LSD
Released14 March 2019
Genre Pop
Length2:55
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
LSD singles chronology
" Mountains"
(2018) 		"No New Friends"
(2019)
Music video
"No New Friends" on YouTube

"No New Friends", sometimes titled "Know New Friends", [1] is a song by LSD from the group's album of the same name, released by Columbia Records on 14 March 2019. [2] The song serves as the album's fifth and final single, following " Genius", " Audio", " Thunderclouds", and " Mountains". [3]

Composition

The members of LSD, from left to right: Labrinth, Sia and Diplo

"No New Friends" is a pop song with electronic dance music (EDM) influences, [4] and has a "thumping" dance beat with "bouncy" synth loops by Diplo, as well as harmonized vocals by Sia and Labrinth. Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone describes the song's bridge as "reminiscent of a boozy piano ballad". [3]

Release and promotion

Sia confirmed the song's release date via Twitter on 12 March 2019. [5] The group performed "No New Friends" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2019. [6]

Reception

Billboard's Kat Bein described "No New Friends" as a "bright, rhythm-led tune that pops warm and sunny like spring for your ears", and "infectiously catchy with a touch of the islands that celebrates the buddies we already have". [7] Derrick Rossignol of Uproxx called the song "upbeat" and "an ode to appreciating what you have". He wrote, "The song gives everybody a chance to shine, thanks to Sia's idiosyncratic vocals, Labrinth's hip-hop energy, and Diplo’s EDM-influenced pop production that ties everything together." [4]

Music video

The official music video for the song was released on 16 April 2019. Rolling Stone's review called the video "an appropriately fantastical visual" and described it as follows: "The clip, directed by Dano Cerny and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, stars Sia's sixteen-year-old body double Maddie Ziegler as a giant. She encounters the pink-clad Labrinth in a Dr. Seussian land of puff-ball trees and whimsical puffy clouds, and the two quickly form a bond. They frolic through the trees, stare up at cloud formations and encounter human-sized clones of Ziegler dancing giddily on a hillside. Diplo appears later in the video as a floating sun and moon, and as another giant who towers over Ziegler." [8]

Track listing

  • Digital download – Remixes [9]
  1. "No New Friends" (Dombresky Remix) – 4:06
  2. "No New Friends" (Aaron Redding Remix) – 2:48

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes of LSD.

  • Sia Furler – writer, lyricist, vocals
  • Labrinth – writer, lyricist, vocals, producer, engineer, instrumentation, programming
  • Diplo – writer, producer, instrumentation, programming
  • King Henry – writer, producer, instrumentation, programming
  • Jr Blender – writer, producer, instrumentation, programming
  • Nathaniel "Detonate" Ledwidge – additional production
  • Bart Schoudel – engineer
  • Serban Ghenea – mixer
  • John Hanes – engineer for mix
  • Randy Merrill – masterer

Charts

Chart (2019) Peak
position
Czech Republic ( Singles Digitál Top 100) [10] 90
China Airplay/FL ( Billboard) [11] 21
France ( SNEP) [12] 173
Ireland ( IRMA) [13] 61
Israel ( Media Forest TV Airplay) [14] 1
Lebanon English ( Lebanese Top 20) [15] 17
Lithuania ( AGATA) [16] 60
New Zealand Hot Singles ( RMNZ) [17] 10
Slovakia ( Singles Digitál Top 100) [18] 78
Sweden Heatseeker ( Sverigetopplistan) [19] 8

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada ( Music Canada) [20] Gold 40,000‡
Poland ( ZPAV) [21] Gold 10,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Labrinth, Sia & Diplo LSD - LSD (Vinyl, LP)". Discogs.
  2. ^ "Labrinth, Diplo and Sia's LSD Drop New Song 'No New Friends'". Variety. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b Blistein, Jon (14 March 2019). "Hear Diplo, Sia, Labrinth Declare 'No New Friends' on New Song". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b Rossignol, Derrick. "Labrinth, Sia, and Diplo Appreciate What They Have On Their Bouncy New LSD Single 'No New Friends'". Uproxx. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. ^ @Sia (March 12, 2019). "#LSD "No New Friends" ➡️ out Thursday 🎵 @labrinth @diplo - Team Sia" ( Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ Zemler, Emily (April 25, 2019). "Watch LSD's Vibrant Performance of 'No New Friends' on 'Ellen'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  7. ^ Bein, Kat (14 March 2019). "LSD Return with the Bouncy 'No New Friends': Listen". Billboard. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  8. ^ Shaffer, Claire. "Sia, Diplo and Labrinth Frolic in Seussian Paradise in 'No New Friends' Video", Rolling Stone, April 16, 2019; and Diplo. "LSD – No New Friends (Official Video) ft. Labrinth, Sia, Diplo", YouTube, March 21, 2019
  9. ^ "iTunes - Music - No New Friends (feat. Sia, Diplo & Labrinth) [Remixes] - Single by LSD". iTunes Store.
  10. ^ " ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – SINGLES DIGITAL – TOP 100 and insert 201916 into search. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  11. ^ "China Airplay Chart/Foreign Language - 06/03/2019". Billboard China (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2019-06-17. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  12. ^ " LSD (Labrinth / Sia / Diplo) – No New Friends" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  13. ^ "Irish-charts.com – Discography Labrinth". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  14. ^ "מדיה פורסט - לדעת שאתה באוויר". Mediaforest.biz. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  15. ^ "LSD – Lebanese Chart Top 20 History". The Official Lebanese Top 20. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  16. ^ "Savaitės klausomiausi (TOP 100)" (in Lithuanian). AGATA. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  17. ^ "NZ Hot Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. 25 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  18. ^ " ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201916 into search. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  19. ^ "Veckolista Heatseeker – Vecka 12, 22 mars 2019". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  20. ^ "Canadian single certifications – LSD – No New Friends". Music Canada. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  21. ^ "Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2020 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

External links

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