| No New Friends | |
| Cover: | LSD - No New Friends.png |
| Caption: | Remixes version cover artwork |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | LSD |
| Album: | LSD |
| Released: | 14 March 2019 |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Chronology: | LSD |
| Prev Title: | Mountains |
| Prev Year: | 2018 |
"No New Friends", sometimes titled "Know New Friends",[1] is a song by LSD from the group's album of the same name, released by Columbia Records on 14 March 2019.[2] The song serves as the album's fifth and final single, following "Genius", "Audio", "Thunderclouds", and "Mountains".[3]
"No New Friends" is a pop song with electronic dance music (EDM) influences,[4] and has a "thumping" dance beat with "bouncy" synth loops by Diplo, as well as harmonized vocals by Sia and Labrinth. Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone describes the song's bridge as "reminiscent of a boozy piano ballad".
Sia confirmed the song's release date via Twitter on 12 March 2019.[5] The group performed "No New Friends" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2019.[6]
Billboard Kat Bein described "No New Friends" as a "bright, rhythm-led tune that pops warm and sunny like spring for your ears", and "infectiously catchy with a touch of the islands that celebrates the buddies we already have".[7] Derrick Rossignol of Uproxx called the song "upbeat" and "an ode to appreciating what you have". He wrote, "The song gives everybody a chance to shine, thanks to Sia's idiosyncratic vocals, Labrinth's hip-hop energy, and Diplo’s EDM-influenced pop production that ties everything together."[4]
The official music video for the song was released on 16 April 2019. Rolling Stones review called the video "an appropriately fantastical visual" and described it as follows: "The clip, directed by Dano Cerny and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, stars Sia's sixteen-year-old body double Maddie Ziegler as a giant. She encounters the pink-clad Labrinth in a Dr. Seussian land of puff-ball trees and whimsical puffy clouds, and the two quickly form a bond. They frolic through the trees, stare up at cloud formations and encounter human-sized clones of Ziegler dancing giddily on a hillside. Diplo appears later in the video as a floating sun and moon, and as another giant who towers over Ziegler."[8]
Credits adapted from liner notes of LSD.
| Chart (2019) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| China Airplay/FL (Billboard)[10] | 21 | |
| Israel (Media Forest TV Airplay)[11] | 1 | |
| Lebanon English (Lebanese Top 20)[12] | 17 | |
| Lithuania (AGATA)[13] | 60 | |
| New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)[14] | 10 | |
| Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)[15] | 8 |