Clean Bandit Team Up With French The Kid For New Single Sad Girls Featuring Rema
Monday, 12 September 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Clean Bandit have shared a new single, Sad Girls.
The track finds the Grammy Award-winners teaming up with Nigerian trailblazer Rema, and rising Essex-born rapper French The Kid, who contribute soulful vocals over a breezy and bouncy production that fuses dance music with Afrobeats. The group said:
"We met French The Kid last year, after falling in love with his song Thrill, and we were honoured that he recorded a verse for our Drive remix. After that, he came to our studio and we made two songs from scratch, one of them is Sad Girls.
"Rema is one of our favourite artist in the world, so we were again honoured when during a recent 24-hour stopover in London he spent a night with us in the studio. He wrote his verse for Sad Girls at about five in the morning towards the end of the session. We were so tired but he was totally energetic, and witnessing his creative process was one of the best experiences we've had in the band's history.
"The meeting of musical styles contained in this song is exactly what we strive for and have always strived for since the beginning of Clean Bandit - the weaving of unexpected sound worlds in organic moments, creating songs that we love."
The song follows their February single Everything But You featuring A7S. Their last album was 2018's 'What Is Love?'.
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