No Money

Album: The Aviary (2016)
Charted: 4 88
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Songfacts®:

  • This euphoric slice of progressive house was premiered by Galantis at Miami's Ultra Music Festival, on April 1, 2016.
  • Released as the first single from the Swedish duo's second album, it references on the hook their breakthrough anthem "Runaway (U& I)."

    This time, this time
    This time, this time I ain't gonna run, run, run, run, run
  • The song features the voice of Reece Bullimore, the pre-teen son of former Beatbullyz singer Andy Bullimore. Reece recorded his vocals in under half an hour at his father's music studio. Andy and Nick Gale of Digital Farm Animals, who'd penned the lyrics about standing up to a bully, sent the demo to Galantis who quickly snapped it up.
  • Galantis told HMV.com how the track came together. "It was a puzzle," they said. "We had a piece from the beginning that we were working with and we tried to approach it in different ways. We were really attached to the performance of the vocal at first. We weren't sure how the chords and the melody would fit the vocal, but we knew it would eventually piece together because we were so married to the performance of 12-year-old Reece."
  • The song's music video features an Atlanta girl tackling a bully with a bunch of lost boys. Galantis said: "For us, thinking about video ideas is almost as common as thinking of song ideas. The idea for the video was something we were working on for a while but didn't know what song it would be a fit for."
  • The secret of this song's success is its simplicity. "In terms of the melody on that one, it's like a nursery rhyme," Nick Gale told Billboard. "When you're in a club, people don't have the mind to figure things out, as opposed to if it's instant and in your face. So with club music, the simpler, the better."

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