Heartbeat Song

**Heartbeat Song** by *Kelly Clarkson* is featured in The High Road, sixty-fifth chapter of Push to the Limit. It is sung by Santana.

Santana writes the song with Blaine Anderson and then records it at Blackbird Records, the first song she records there since her contract expired. As she records, Sebastian watches over and seems to really enjoy it, thinking it means he's got Santana back under his control. Santana, however, is only doing it to put out music already so that her new era can be on track by the time she and Shana begin to adopt. After the song is over, Sebastian speaks with Santana privately and tells her she has to sign a contract for two more albums with the label, but she threatens to leave and take other artists with her if they don't negotiate on her terms, releasing this song as an independent single and then measuring from its success how she will resign... and with whom.

## Heartbeat Song

### Producer(s)

Greg Kurstin | Blaine Anderson | Sebastian Smythe

## Singles Chronology

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Body Say

**Heartbeat Song** is a song by American singer Santana Lopez released as a non-album single on September 15, 2023. Written by Lopez and Blaine Anderson, the song is an uptempo synthpop track. Lyrically, it sings of meeting a person who restores someone's faith in love. Inspired by 1980s synthpop music, "Heartbeat Song" was released by Blackbird Records as the artist's buzz single on September 15, 2023.

"Heartbeat Song" was released to a positive response from music critics, who complimented the song's production and praised Lopez's decision to tackle mainstream pop music as she had with her debut single. Commercially, the single debuted on the *Billboard* Hot 100 chart at number 37 and has peaked at number 21, marking Lopez's ninth top 40 hit on the chart. Internationally, it became a top ten hit single in Austria, Poland, South Africa and the United Kingdom while also becoming a top 20 hit in the national charts of the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, Slovakia and Sweden.

While she filmed a music video for the song, it was never released due to her departure from Blackbird Records following the release of the song. The track was also pulled from radio shortly after making impact, yet still did well enough in pure sales and streams, leading to it having fair success. The song was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

## Lyrics

**Santana:**

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Been so long

I forgot how to turn it up, up, up, up

All night long

Oh up, up all night long

You, where the hell did you come from?

You're a different, different kind of fun

And I'm so used to feeling numb

Now, I've got pins and needles on my tongue

Anticipating what's to come

Like a finger on a loaded gun

I can feel it rising

Temperature inside me

Haven't felt it for a lifetime

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Been so long

I forgot how to turn it up, up, up, up

All night long

Oh up, up all night long

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Turned it on

But I know you can take it

Up, up, up, up all night long

Oh up, up all night long (all night long)

I, I wasn't even gonna go out

But I never would have had a doubt

If I'd have known where I'd be now

Your hands on my hips

And my kiss on your lips

Oh, I could do this for a lifetime

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Been so long

I forgot how to turn it up, up, up, up

All night long

Oh up, up all night long

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Turned it on

But I know you can take it

Up, up, up, up all night long

Oh up, up all night long

Until tonight I only dreamed about you

I can't believe I ever breathed without you

Baby, you make me feel alive and brand new

Bring it one more time, one more time

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Been so long

I forgot how to turn it up, up, up, up

All night long

Oh up, up all night long

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Turned it on

But I know you can take it

Up, up, up, up all night long

Oh up, up all night long

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Been so long

I forgot how to turn it up, up, up, up

All night long

Oh up, up all night long

This is my heartbeat song

And I'm gonna play it

Turned it on

But I know you can take it

Up, up, up, up all night long

Oh up, up all night long