Run
by Becky Hill (featuring Galantis)

Album: Only Honest on the Weekend (2022)
Charted: 21
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Songfacts®:

  • "Run" is an emotional dance track where Becky Hill details how fear threatens to derail a relationship.
  • Hill wrote the song with her best friend MNEK, with whom she's been collaborating since her first solo hit, "Losing," in 2012. Their other collaborations include her UK chart-topper "Gecko (Overdrive)" and Top 20 single "Heaven On My Mind."
  • Production is by Galantis, who back Hill's vocals with their shimmering instrumentation. It is the first time the English singer has worked with the Swedish duo.
  • Swedish multi-instrumentalist Erik Arvinder conducted and co-arranged the string instruments. Arvinder has also arranged music for Avicii, Zara Larsson and James Arthur.
  • Director Michael Holyk (Rag N' Bone Man, Jake Bugg) shot the video in Cape Town, South Africa. It shows Hill enjoying a romance in sunny climes along with sweeping scenes of the hills around Cape Town.

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