Young Thug & M.I.A. The song has also consistently topped the global charts on Spotify, where it has racked up more than 1 billion streams, and YouTube, where the “Dance Monkey” music video has been viewed more than 664 million times. And were, like, we’re going to run Tones out of town — like, for no reason. Just about that bass drop, making sure that it was not too straight, that it really swung.” “We set up ‘Dance Monkey,’ and were going to release it. That’s why if you replace ‘dance’ with the word ‘sing,’ it’s just about me busking.

[singing] That caught a fire real quick in Australia, crossed over to commercial radio, which was huge.” “In Australian terms, ‘Johnny’ — it doesn’t get any better than that for a debut.” “Even though, like, my song was getting high rotation on like, all the mainstream radios, that does nothing. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. You have to keep busking, and I didn’t want to work at Woolworth’s.” “So when did you first hear the demo for ‘Dance Monkey?’” “I never heard a demo. But after its official release last May, the track caught on not just in Australia, where it became the longest running No. In the rain, when no one else would be busking, I would be busking. Written by a busker named Toni Watson, 26, who performs as the solo act Tones and I, “Dance Monkey” uses a plunking keyboard and thumping bass line as a backdrop to describe the very specific life of a street musician: “Just like a monkey I’ve been dancing my whole life,” she sings. I can’t even believe that this is my life sometimes. Some of them cross over to the U.K., and other European countries, but not all of them can make the leap to America, like, what does it mean for your song to break in the U.S.? Keep up with the latest daily buzz with the BuzzFeed Daily newsletter! by Matt Stopera I used to work at a surf shop on Bourke Street, which is really the busiest part of Melbourne. And when you've done make you do it again, I said, Oh, my God, you get my hands and my eyes. It’s going number one in so many countries. Rock it like a monkey, like you just don't care, Evolution is so obsolete Again!’ right in my face, and the guy that walked past me and said, you’re [expletive] — all in, like, 30 minutes.” “Have you been back to busk since ‘Dance Monkey’ hit number one?” “It’s very hard to do. “‘Dance Monkey.’” “‘Dance Monkey.’” “‘Dance Monkey.’” “For anyone that thinks that I’m, like, an overnight success just doesn’t know about, like, the hard yards I’ve already put in. I was busking day, day, day, day — in the winter, when no one else would busk. It’s the reason that I’m here. 5, alongside acts like Post Malone, Maroon 5 and Billie Eilish. After a particularly difficult night busking, Tones and I wrote the song. 1 in 20 countries and topping 1 billion plays on Spotify.

The song went to number one in just about every country in the world. See how “Dance Monkey” became a viral hit in the clip above. Copyright: Writer(s): Steven J. Conte, Brian Koonin, Sami Lauri Takamaki, Sylvain Mizrahi, Brian D. Delaney, David Johansen, HOT SONG: Billie Eilish - "No Time To Die'" - LYRICS, POPULAR SONG: Travis Scott feat. People grab my hands and be like, ‘You know you stopped me dead in my tracks when I was walking by.’ [singing] ‘Just sing one more song, just one more song.’ ‘I’m just going to get my husband.’ I’m literally just repeating what people tell me.

Come on pretty baby won't you take a chance Be my natural selection, dance dance dance Exorcise your demons with that monkey friend Because we're gonna inherit the wind.

Again! Is that meaningful to you?” “That is like another whole universe in itself.

“Hello.” “Hello.” “Do I call you Tones or Toni?” “Tones. I wrote ‘Dance Monkey’ in half an hour, and then it was done.” [singing] “Just watching her busk with it, early on, people just loved it. It’s like, breaking the U.S. is like re-releasing ‘Dance Monkey’ again to the world.” “Do you ever feel guilty that the song that helped you make it is sort of complaining about the very thing that helped you make it?” “No, I’m writing it about the girl that knocked over my keyboard, and the guy that tried to steal my money and the two guys that were literally yelling out ‘Again!
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In the latest episode of The New York Times video series Diary of a Song, which breaks down how music is made today, Tones and I describes her bizarre journey from local novelty to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” alongside her managers and the producer Konstantin Kersting. Exorcise your demons with that monkey friend I really like that song that’s like, ‘You just want attention. People Are Finding Out The Person Who Sings "Dance Monkey's" Voice Really Sounds Like That, Like There's No Autotune At All "It sounds like she's singing in cursive." “Diary of a Song” provides an up-close, behind-the-scenes look at how pop music is made today, using archival material — voice memos, demo versions, text messages, emails, interviews and more — to tell the story behind the track. And then it was sort of our job in the studio to make it, I guess like, radio friendly. ‘Johnny Run Away’ was the most developed demo, and that was the first release we put out.

I really, really wanted to busk.

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