Where Did You Go?
by Jax Jones (featuring MNEK)

Album: yet to be titled (2022)
Charted: 7
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Jax Jones teams up with singer-songwriter MNEK for an affecting tale of being left alone on the dance floor. After one dance together, MNEK was smitten, but his partner disappeared. It's now the end of the night and he wonders where his love interest went.
  • Jones and his fellow Londoner MNEK are frequent collaborators. As well as previously providing the vocals on the producer's 2015 single "Housework," MNEK has co-written many of his hits, including "You Don't Know Me," "Instruction," "Play," and "This Is Real."
  • Musically, this finds Jones' dipping his toes into the Eurodance genre, a type of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in central Europe. Eurodance is melody-driven with lyrics usually involving dancing, partying and having fun. This infectious, upbeat track reflects Jones and MNEK celebrating clubbing again after the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    "I was listening to a lot of music that was just to make myself happy, because the days at times could get quite monotonous," Jones told Apple Music. "The brief was like, I'm on this Euro house vibe, I need it to feel R&B and I just need it to be so happy."
  • Jones and MNEK co-wrote "Where Did You Go?" with:

    Frequent Clean Bandit collaborator Mark Ralph.

    Copenhagen-based songwriter Frederik "Siba" Eichen (Regard's "You," Lewis Blissett's "Killing Butterflies").

    Veteran British songsmith Wayne Hector. He has written many hit songs for the likes of Westlife, Olly Murs, The Wanted and One Direction.

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