Milky Likelihood’s “Stolen Dance” was a viral smash a decade in the past, and the music has continued to rack up performs ever since. Twelve years after its launch, the music’s music video has now surpassed a billion views on YouTube, turning into the most recent member of the platform’s One Billion Views Membership.
“And I want you/ We can bring it on the floor/ You’ve never danced like this before,” Clemens Rehbein sings on the digital folk-pop observe’s refrain. “We don’t talk about it/ Dancin’ on, doin’ the boogie all night long/ Stoned in paradise/ Shouldn’t talk about it.” Within the video, directed by Jana Buchmann and Stefan Cantante, Rehbein sits and performs the music whereas a wide range of photographs are projected over prime of him.
“Stolen Dance” was the lead single on the Kassel, Germany duo’s debut album Sadnecessary. Although an earlier model of the music first appeared on-line in 2012, the official recording dropped on April 4, 2013, a number of weeks forward of Sadnecessary. Not till the autumn of 2014, by which level “Stolen Chance” had change into a YouTube phenomenon and a multi-week No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Rock Airplay chart, was the album lastly launched in the US.
Again dwelling in Germany, “Stolen Dance” gained Finest Single on the 1Live Krone radio awards in 2013, whereas Sadnecessary went on to be honored as Germany’s Finest Album on the 2015 European Border Breakers Award (now often called the Music Strikes Europe Awards). “Stolen Dance” was a No. 1 hit in Eire, Austria, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Switzerland.
In a 2014 Album of the Week evaluate of Sadnecessary, SPIN described “Stolen Dance” as “a transfixing hip-swayer… that slithers its way through a surprisingly seductive verse to the group’s most anthemic chorus.” Critic Andrew Unterberger continued, “The key to the song, though — and maybe to the group as a whole — is how the moment the chorus has finished its chest-beating (chest-tapping, anyway), it shuffles right back to its trademark jaunt, like it felt uncomfortable being away as long as it was. You’re a little relieved to be back yourself, actually.”
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