Peanut Butter Jelly (song)
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"Peanut Butter Jelly" is a song by Swedish
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Galantis Galantis is a Swedish electronic dance music production, songwriting and DJ duo consisting of Christian Karlsson (DJ), Christian Karlsson and Style of Eye, Linus Eklöw. Karlsson is also known as Bloodshy as part of two other musical groups, a d ...
featuring uncredited vocals from
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. It was released on 20 April 2015 as the fourth single from their debut studio album ''
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'' (2015). It became available on 4 April 2015 upon pre-order of the LP. It heavily features a sample of the 1974 single "Kiss My Love Goodbye" by
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The music video, directed by
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, was posted to
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on July 26, 2015, and has since garnered over 131 million views. The video shows two people (presumed to be Galantis) wearing black jackets casually walking into a supermarket as the song begins to play over the
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. The video features Jillian Sipkins who appears as a girl on roller-skates, whom every one takes notice of. As the song's intro crescendos into the main movement, Sipkins (who is the only character to mimic the lyrics) says "Spread it like", this causes the bored customers and lethargic employees to begin to transform in both their attire and demeanor, shedding their everyday attire for more festive garments while dancing joyously, with some striking a
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filled with money and others kissing each other. The two men then exit the store, leaving the customers and employees in a raucous party.


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2015 singles 2015 songs Galantis songs Songs written by Style of Eye Songs written by Christian Karlsson (DJ) Songs written by Henrik Jonback Songs written by Martina Sorbara Songs written by Svidden Warner Music Group singles {{2010s-electronic-song-stub