Contact

## Music Video

"**Contact**" is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Kelela. The song serves as the fourth single and seventh track on her sophomore studio album, Raven. It was released January 17, 2023 via Warp Records.

"Contact" is a up-beat dance song, which also highly contains breakbeat elements as well. The song also has hints of pop, electronic, experimental, new age, wave, and more.

Upon release, the track was met with generally favorable reviews. The Guardian described the track as "with old-school drum’n’bass powering this album’s most immediate “ravin” track." Pitchfork had said the song "places Kelela’s delicate melodies over a scuffed jungle beat and warped synths that give way to a Dionysian rush of lust." Residence Advisor said that the song is "a track Kelela serves with understated elegance and sensuality over hopscotching breaks as she details an evening that takes her and friends on a breezy ride through the West Side to the shadowy crevices of a dance floor."

## Background

On Jaunary 17, 2023, "Contact" was released prior to any announcement of the song. On January 19, 2023, the song and video were announced. Alongside the release, a fashion brand, Kenzo, had supported Kelela by sending her flowers. The flowers were sent for her show in Paris.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

We're takin' a ride, 405 through the west side

We're party to party, it's late but we're wide awake

The bass in my body, I'm sinkin', it's so wide

Time is surreal, now I'm floating in outer space

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Rollin' up, we bring in the light

It might just render you blind

We're workin' hard every day

Don't need your help, I can pay

You're stressin', that's not allowed

There's nothin' holdin' us down

You see my hips and they sway

Now, see me walkin' away to the dance floor

**[Chorus]**

Oh, it's a sauna, here if you wanna (I'm standin' in the light)

It's 2 AM, yeah, we made it, everybody faded (So high, so high, so high)

And now I'm floatin' away, far and away (You know it feels so right)

You tryna stall and delay, but I wanna play

**[Verse 2]**

We're hidin' away in the back on a new high (New high)

I'll give you a taste if you're good, but you gotta wait (Wait, wait)

Your hands on my body, the feeling is so right

I'd go all the way if it's up to me, hey-yeah

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Loneliness, I see in your eyes

It might just render you blind

Been gettin' harder these days

Contact we just have to make

You're stressin', that's not allowed

Got nothin' holdin' us down

You're leanin' in, I sway

Baby, let's dance it away

**[Chorus]**

Oh, it's a sauna, here if you wanna (I'm standin' in the light)

It's 2 AM, yeah, we made it, everybody faded (So high, so high, so high)

And now I'm floatin' away, far and away (Away, away, away, away)

You tryna stall and delay, but I wanna play, yeah

**[Outro]**

Oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh

No, oh-ooh-woah, oh-ooh-woah, oh, no

## Trivia

* "Contact" samples Lyn Collins' "Think (About It)".

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnms2J7Mtor/
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxpA9VPp5\_/

## Navigation

2023 RAVE:N Tour · Videography · Photography

"**Washed Away**"
"**Happy Ending**"
"Let It Go
"**On The Run**"
"Missed Call"
"Closure"
"****Contact****"

"Fooley"
"Holier"
"Raven"
"Bruises"
"Sorbet"
"Divorce"
"**Enough For Love**"
"Far Away"

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