Tones and I simply retains dancing. On Wednesday (April 26), the music video for the Australian indie sensation’s smash single “Dance Monkey” formally hit 2 billion views and relying on YouTube.
The amusing clip finds the artist in any other case referred to as Toni Elizabeth Watson donning old-age make-up and a grey beard to play an outdated man who escapes from a nursing residence together with his gaggle of buddies for a wild time out on the golf course.
“They are saying dance for me, dance for me, dance for me, oh-oh-oh/ I’ve by no means seen anyone do the belongings you do earlier than/ They are saying, transfer for me, transfer for me, transfer for me, ay-ay-ay/ And whenever you’re completed, I’ll make you do all of it once more,” she sings because the group goes joyriding in golf carts, throws again beers on the clubhouse and boogies on the placing inexperienced.
The grooving single was an immediately viral hit when Tones and I unleashed it again in 2019 because the second single from her debut EP The Children Are Coming. Whereas it charted at No. 4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, the tune hit No. 1 in additional than 30 international locations around the globe and in addition earned the pop singer her first prime 10 hit on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay, Sizzling Rock & Different Songs and Dance/Combine Present Airplay charts.
Since then, Tones and I launched her debut studio album Welcome to the Madhouse, collaborated with Macklemore on “Chant,” and contributed “I Made It” to the soundtrack of the 2023 biographical drama True Spirit.
Rewatch Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey” music video under.