"Sit Next to Me" is a song by American
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and sub ...
band
Foster the People
Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. Its members are singer Mark Foster, guitarist Sean Cimino, and keyboardist Isom Innis.
Foster founded the band in 2009 after spending several years in ...
. The song is featured as the third track on the band's third studio album ''
Sacred Hearts Club
''Sacred Hearts Club'' is the third studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on July 21, 2017, through Columbia Records. The album was preceded by the extended play ''III'', which is composed of three tracks from the a ...
'' and was released as the record's third single by
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
on July 13, 2017. "Sit Next to Me" (Versions) was recorded on October 13, 2017 and featured a radio edit, acoustic version, and a reworked version of the song. It was then released to US
modern rock
Modern rock is an umbrella term used to describe rock music that is found on college rock radio stations. Some radio stations use this term to distinguish themselves from classic rock, which is based in 1960s–1980s rock music.
Radio format
Mod ...
stations.
Music video
The official video for "Sit Next to Me" was directed by Fourclops and Brinton Bryan and was released on November 10, 2017. The video features 100 posts from
Instagram
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influencers and celebrities and also includes submissions from Foster the People fans all over the world. A cardboard cut-out of Baloony from ''
Phineas and Ferb
''Phineas and Ferb'' is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast as a ...
'' is seen in one of the Instagram videos. "It was fun to play with the premise of a music video that hijacks your social feed," said director Fourclops in a prepared statement. "Instagram is a major destination for consuming media these days, and it made for an exciting setting for our video. We asked ourselves, what would it look like if all of the accounts within Instagram become transformed by a song?"
[http://news.radio.com/2017/11/10/foster-the-people-sit-next-to-me-video/ ]
Track listing
Personnel
Foster the People
*
Mark Foster – lead vocals, bass, synthesizer, guitar, engineer
Additional personnel
*
Oliver Goldstein – drum programming, piano, synthesizer, guitar, bass, programming, producer
*Josh Abraham – producer
*Lars Stalfors – additional production, mixing
*Cameron Graham – engineer
*Isom Innis – engineer
*Dave Cerminara – additional engineering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
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2017 singles
2017 songs
2010s ballads
Foster the People songs
Columbia Records singles
Songs written by Oliver Goldstein
Songs written by Josh Abraham
Songs written by Lars Stalfors
Songs written by Mark Foster (singer)
Torch songs
Electropop ballads