Levitate

Album: Every Weekend (2013)
Charted: 69
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a track from Hadouken!'s third album Every Weekend. Regarding the inspiration for the set, frontman James Smith told Digital Spy: "A lot of the lyrics came back to this idea that people are living for the weekend at the moment. There's this great recession on, but a lot of the young people who don't have jobs just want to go out and forget their troubles rather than sing about them. Rave music did it perfectly in the '90s and we've drawn on that in parts for this album."
  • The song's video is a montage of clips showing ludicrous human feats edited by the band from their bedroom. It became a viral hit resulting in the song rocketing into the top five of the US i-Tunes and into the Hot 100.

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