"Shed a Light" is a song by German DJ and record producer

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and French DJ and music producer

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, featuring American electronic music DJ trio

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. The song was released as a digital download in Germany on 25 November 2016 as the

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from Schulz's third studio album '' Uncovered'' (2017). It was written by Schulz, Guetta,

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, Jacob Kasher, Giorgio Tuinfort, Stefan Dabruck, John Ryan, Guido Kramer, Dennis Bierbrodt, Ammar Malik, and Jürgen Dohr.

Music video

The official music video of the song was released on 31 January 2017 through Robin Schulz's

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account. It was directed by Mario Clement and produced by Christopher Kane, and features actors Franziska Nylen and Christopher Reinhardt. The music video is about a male and female astronaut couple on a space mission, when the male crashes to a planet in his spaceship. His lover speeds to him in her spaceship, but he becomes surrounded by

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and warns her not to come closer. She does not heed his warning and goes to his side, causing both to be consumed by the matter.

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