Borderline

Album: released as a single (2025)
Charted: 35
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Songfacts®:

  • "Borderline" is an electropop dance anthem by Austrian producer and DJ, Ely Oaks, featuring Lavinia. Her vocals explore the nuanced complexities of living within life's emotional borderlines.
  • Lavinia is a Berlin-based singer in the dance and electronic music scene. She frequently collaborates with Ely Oaks; their other joint offerings include the singles "Sigma Boy Remix" and "K.O."
  • Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Stryke wrote the song with Jan Kask and released it on October 9, 2024, as the lead single from her EP Kiddo. Stryke's version is more of a low-simmer rebellion - part dub, part electro daydream - with lyrics about personal autonomy and shedding the structures that make us feel hemmed in.

    Oaks' 2025 update keeps the core idea intact - that precarious place between feeling too much and not quite enough - but dresses it up for the club.

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