"Fun" is the lead single from
Blondie's eleventh studio album ''
Pollinator''. It was released on February 1, 2017, on all major online platforms. On February 13, 2017, the single was released as a 7-inch single in the UK. The single included the
Johnny Marr penned track "My Monster" as a
B-side. Several remixes were made for the track, and released on digital singles on March 8.
Reception
The single made the UK radio Airplay charts in early February 2017, reaching number 22 on February 24, 2017. The single was also chosen as ''Record of the Week'' on BBC Radio 2 and added to their A-List of songs which are the most played on the station. In the Official Charts, Fun debuted at number 3 in the UK Physical Chart Top 100 and at number 2 in the Vinyl Singles Top 40. The single spent eight weeks in the top 10 in both charts.
On the ''Billboard''
Dance Club Songs chart for the issue dated May 13, 2017, the single reached number 1. It is Blondie's most successful single worldwide since 1999's "''
Maria
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People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
* 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
* Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...
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Music video
The official music video directed by Dikayl Rimmasch was released on February 15, 2017.
It begins with an astronaut played by actor
Daeg Faerch
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who is hurtling through space along with black and white clips of the band playing the track. The astronaut lands on Mars and meets an intergalactic character (played by
Raja
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The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being attested f ...
). Then the androgynous male, actor Daeg Faerch, astronaut goes to Earth and the video concludes with a
Studio 54-like nightclub party followed by the astronaut flying off into space again.
Rimmasch described the main character as "a beautiful androgynous kid kind of drugged-out, cruising to Mars and finding a party there." Speaking of the narrative he said "the whole trip was in this character's mind. We didn’t want to take the sci-fi elements too seriously, so we did these light-hearted animations and shot in this minimal Apollo capsule set."
Track listings
Charts
References
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2017 singles
2017 songs
Blondie (band) songs
Songs written by Dave Sitek
Songs written by Erik Hassle