Clarity

"Clarity" Original Live Song by Zedd featuring Foxes From the album Clarity and Glorious (deluxe edition) Preceded by "Count the Saints" Succeeded by "Beauty Queen" Song details Released 14 December 2012 Total streams Format Digital download Recorded 2012 Genre EDM Length 4:31 (Clarity version) 3:27 (radio edit) 3:33 (Glorious live version) Label Interscope Writer(s) Anton Zaslavski, Matthew Koma, Porter Robinson, Holly Hafermann Producer(s) Zedd Music video

Clarity is a song by German/Russian electronic dance music producer Zedd which serves as the third single from his debut studio album of the same name. It featured vocals from English singer-songwriter Foxes. A live version of the song is also featured on the deluxe edition of Foxes' debut album, Glorious.

Background

When Zedd listened to Foxes' song Youth, he contacted her and asked her to be the vocalist on Clarity. After Foxes researched about him on Wikipedia, she accepted the offer.

Lyrics

High dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life
Fight fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time
Hold still right before we crash 'cause we both know how this ends
A clock ticks 'til it breaks your glass and I drown in you again

'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why

If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?

(Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey)

If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?

Walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends
It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense
Don't speak as I try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose
If you pull then I'll push too deep and I'll fall right back to you

'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why

If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?

(Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey)

Why are you my clarity?
Why are you my remedy?
Why are you my clarity?
Why are you my remedy?

If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?

Videos

On 11 December 2012, a behind-the-scenes video for Clarity was released onto YouTube. In this video, Zedd says that the music video can be divided into three parts: the first part, which is optimistic; the second, which contains most of the drama and emotion; and the third, which is meant to have the same mood as the first.

One week later, on 18 December, an acoustic version was released under one of Zedd's alternate accounts.

The official music video for the song was released onto Zedd's VEVO channel on 11 January 2013.

Zedd - Making Of "Clarity" Music Video

Zedd - Clarity feat. Foxes (Acoustic Version)

Zedd - Clarity (Official Video) ft. Foxes

Gallery

Trivia

• Clarity debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at 86, peaked at 8, and was Zedd's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and is his most successful song in the US and worldwide.
  • It has sold 2,238,000 copies in the United States as of March 2014.
• On 10 October 2013, Foxes tweeted a picture to Zedd of herself posing with a platinum Clarity disk.
• On 26 January 2014, the song won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording
  • Foxes tweeted about this the same day.

References

Track listing: "Talking to Ghosts" • "Youth" • "Holding onto Heaven" • "White Coats" • "Let Go for Tonight" • "Night Glo" • "Night Owls Early Birds" • "Glorious" • "Echo" • "Shaking Heads" • "Count the Saints" • "Clarity (Live)" • "Beauty Queen" • "Home" • "In Her Arms" • "The Unknown"