"Magnets" is a song by the electronic duo Disclosure featuring Lorde. It was released to good reviews on September 23, 2015.
Background[]
Composition and Release[]
The single was released on 23 September 2015, by PMR Records and Island Records, as the third promotional single from their studio album Caracal. The track became Disclosure's most successful hit in Australia and New Zealand, peaking at number 14 and number two respectively, becoming their highest-charting single on both countries.
Reception[]
Critical Reception[]
"Magnets" garnered acclaim from critics. Rolling Stone ranked "Magnets" at number 32 on its year-end list to find the 50 best songs of 2015, calling it "the year's most understated dance-world magic". Conversely, Michaelangelo Matos of Billboard called the tune "mildly memorable".
Chart Performance[]
The song peaked in Australia and New Zealand at number 14 and number two respectively, becoming their highest-charting single on both countries. In the US, "Magnets" became their first single to impact alternative radio and adult alternative radio, placing at number 21 on the Rock Airplay chart and number 13 on the Alternative Songs chart, with the single being officially released to alternative radio on 10 November 2015.
Lyrics[]
As we drank deep from the lie
Cause I felt melting magnets, babe
The second I saw you through half-shut eyes
[Pre-Chorus]
Smoke and sunset, off Mulholland
He was talking, I was wonderin' 'bout
You and that girl, she your girlfriend?
Face from heaven, bet the world she don't know
Pretty girls don't know the things that I know
Walk my way, I'll share the things that she won't
[Chorus]
Uh-oh, dancing past the point of no return
Let go, we can free ourselves of all we've learned
I love this secret language that we're speakin'
Say it to me, let's embrace the point of no return
Let's embrace the point of no return
Let's embrace the point of no return
[Verse 2]
Never really thought we would make it
We be thinking about what could have been
But we've had a record summer, can't turn it down, oh
Now I don't wanna see the end begin
[Pre-Chorus]
Smoke and sunset, off Mulholland
He was talking, I was wonderin' 'bout
You and that girl, she your girlfriend?
Face from heaven, bet the world she don't know
Pretty girls don't know the things that I know
Walk my way, I'll share the things that she won't
[Chorus]
Uh-oh, dancing past the point of no return
Let go, we can free ourselves of all we've learned
I love this secret language that we're speakin'
Say it to me, let's embrace the point of no return
Let's embrace the point of no return
Let's embrace the point of no return
Let's embrace the point of no return
Let's embrace the point of no return
(Let's embrace the point of no return)
(Let's embrace the point of no return)
Live Performances[]
Disclosure and Lorde performed the song on Saturday Night Live on 14 November 2015.