Closer (Six60 song) explained

Closer
Type:single
Artist:Six60
Album:Six60
Genre:Pop
Length:3:16
Label:Epic, Massive
Prev Title:Rivers
Prev Year:2017
Next Title:Rolling Stone
Next Year:2017

"Closer" is a song by New Zealand band Six60, released as the third single from their 2017 extended play Six60.

Background and composition

The band members described "Closer" as "a feelgood song", where they spent time and effort taking a complex song and packaging it as simple.[1] Lyrically, the song describes a man wanting to get physically closer to somebody at a party.

Release and promotion

"Closer" was one of six tracks released weekly in the build-up to their Six60 EP,[2] on 27 October 2017.[3] "Closer" became the most played song on New Zealand radio in May 2018, after the EP's lead single "Don't Give It Up" spent six months from November 2017 to May 2018 at the top of the radio airplay rankings.[4]

Critical reception

Katie Parker of Radio New Zealand felt that the song "nails Six60's penchant for writing songs ostensibly about something but actually about nothing", and described "Closer" as being "like a list of hashtags beneath a very inoffensive, but somehow still upsetting, Instagram".[5]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.[6]

Charts

Year-end charts

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Position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[7] 29

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SIX60 - Closer (Behind the Song, Berlin) . Six60 . . 8 December 2017 . 12 April 2023.
  2. Web site: SoundBites: Marlon Williams, Estère, Koi Boys, Kimbra, Kings, Six60, Punk It Up . 15 November 2017 . Kim . Gillespie . . 12 April 2023.
  3. Web site: Closer - Single . . 12 April 2023.
  4. Web site: The biggest band in New Zealand history are doing everything wrong . 21 July 2018 . Duncan . Greive . Duncan Greive . . 13 April 2023.
  5. Web site: The Singles Life: Which new Six60 song is the Six60-est? . 24 November 2017 . Katie . Parker . Hussein . Moses . . 12 April 2023.
  6. Web site: Credits / SIX60 / SIX60. Tidal. 14 November 2022.
  7. Web site: END OF YEAR CHARTS 2018. NZ Music Charts. RMNZ. 1 February 2022.