Live Fast (Album)

Album Cover (Standard Edition)

**Live Fast -** The sophomore album by British EDM producer and DJ YeNie Ann Walker. The album was released on 23 October 2021 and has 5 promotional singles - "Faith", "Paint My World", "Joytime", "So Blue", and "All Night". The album also has its Deluxe Edition in which she added 5 more tracks - "Live Fast (VIP Remix)", "Motionless (I Love You)", "Speech", "To The Rhythm of The Beat" featuring singer Hema, and "Spectacularity" featuring singer Ven.

## Background Story

*Live Fast* describes and talks about living your life to the fullest; to enjoy and create memories throughout your short and fast life. She once states that she made it as a note to herself, and to everyone too, whom always forgets to be happy and whom always worries about everything in this world; that memories are more treasurable than money. She also once revealed that she's been working onto this album ever since she's making AVEM. The album has a huge influence from house genre artist Jim Yosef, and most also consists of many electro house tracks.

## Releases

Years after releasing her debut album *AVEM*, Walker then released the lead single for Live Fast, "Faith". It was an unannounced and unexpected release by her. Weeks after "Faith" release, she dropped "Paint My World". and peaked on Billboard Top 100. She then released singles "Joytime" and "So Blue" before she officially announced her second studio album *Live Fast*. She revealed that the album will contain 10 tracks, including the aformentioned singles "Faith", "Paint My World", "Joytime" and "So Blue". Weeks after she announced her album, she released "All Night" as the last single of the album. On the same day, she also announces her 2nd album tour *"The Aviation Tour II; Living Live Before We Go Home".* Finally, on 23 October 2021, she released the album *Live Fast.*

Months after she released the album, she announced that it will be having its deluxe version, on which she added 5 more tracks, including her VIP Remix of her song "Live Fast", a new track "Motionless (I Love You), "Speech", "To The Rhythm of The Beat" featuring the vocals of singer Hema, and "Spectacularity" featuring the vocals of singer Ven. Finally, on 27 October 2021, she officially released the Deluxe Version of her second studio album *"Live Fast".*

## Songs' Peak

### Standard Version

 Paint My World
 Joytime
 So Blue
 All Night

## Singles, Promotions and Tours

### Singles

The lead single ***"Faith"*** was released via the record label *"Joytime Collective",* to streaming devices YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music, and to radio stations. Although it wasn't became that recognized than the other singles, the single still managed to be the most streamed track on the album, having 1.9B streams on Spotify, and the least viewed single on the album, having 940M views on YouTube. It also managed to sold over 11.2M copies worldwide.

***"Paint My World"*** was released as the second single of the album via the record label *"Joytime Collective"*, to streaming devices YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music, and to radio stations. The single was moderately recognized in its time, and managed to have 1.2B streams on Spotify, and 1.1B views on YouTube, making it as the most viewed single on the album, tied with the song "So Blue". It also managed to sold over 16.4 copies worldwide.

***"Joytime"*** was released as the third single of the album via the record label *"Joytime Collective"* and became the official introduction to her future bass and dubstep style. It was released to streaming devices YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music, and to radio stations. The single has 109M streams on Spotify, 990M views on YouTube, and has sold over 7.3M copies worldwide.

***"So Blue"*** was released via the record label *"Joytime Collective"* as the fourth promotional single of the album, to streaming devices YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music, as well to radio stations. The single was also moderately recognized in its time, and also managed to have 1.8B streams on Spotify, 1.1B views on YouTube, tied with "Paint My World", and sold over 17.1M copies worldwide, making it the highest selling single on the album.

***"All Night"*** was released as the last single of the album via *"Joytime Collective"*, to streaming devices YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music, as well to radio stations. The single officially introduces us to her edm-hop style and managed to have 98.8M streams on Spotify, 1B views on YouTube, and sold over 6.7M copies worldwide.

### Promotions and Tours

The album was moderately promoted, unlike her debut album, since this one was a sudden release. She only performed the singles, and not all the tracks, and throughout this album era, she only performed on to one music festival - Tomorrowland Festival. She also performed the songs on her interview on Capital FM as part of the promotion of the album.

She then embarked the album on her second tour *"The Aviation Tour II; Living Life Before We Go Home"* along with her third studio album *"Heading Home",* in which she visited 15 cities worldwide, and made 200 shows*.* The said tour grossed over $165M box office, and was attended by 1.4M Potatoes all around the world.

## Critical Reception and Impact

### Critical Reception

Live Fast received a higher review from the critics, with a Metacritic score of **89 out of 100**, being the second most critically acclaimed album by the artist, only 3 points behind *Heading Home*.

*"Live Fast sounds like some DJ's peak album after years on the market, and Walker managed to make such an album after a few years of experience." -* from the critics

### Impact

As the album that was unexpected and unannounced, and at the same time, lacks promotions, *Live Fast* certainly has lesser impact that her debut album *AVEM*, but still, the album managed to have 5.8B *(Standard Version)* and 6.7B *(Deluxe Version)* streams on Spotify, and 5.1B *(Standard Version)* and 6.06B *(Deluxe Version)* views on YouTube. The album also has sold over 14M copies worldwide

## Tracklist

### Deluxe Version

 12
 13
 14
 15