# @popbase on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc7rsyjB8vA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70058988-popbase-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-06T04:30:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

8 years ago today, Silk City & Dua Lipa released 'Electricity.'

Mark Ronson and Diplo, working together as Silk City, brought Dua Lipa into their fourth single, 'Electricity,' recorded that March at Zelig West in Los Angeles and Lazer Sound in Beachwood Canyon before its release on Columbia Records. The writing credits pulled together an unusually wide circle of collaborators, including The xx's Romy Madley Croft and Diana Gordon, best known for her work on Beyoncé's 'Lemonade,' alongside additional production input from the Picard Brothers, Jarami, Riton, and Alex Metric.

'Electricity' draws heavily from Chicago house and 1990s club music, blending disco-house and diva-house textures with Lipa's soulful vocal delivery, a sound Ronson described in one interview as carrying a deep, gospel-house quality that fit her voice perfectly. The Bradley & Pablo-directed video leaned into that retro energy visually, setting the story during the Northeast Blackout of 2003, with Lipa throwing a loft party and dancing the power back on while Ronson and Diplo find themselves comically stuck in an elevator.

Following release, the trio promoted the single across a run of high-profile television appearances, including the American Music Awards, 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, while several remixes from The Black Madonna and MK extended its club presence further. The song later found a home on the expanded 'Complete Edition' of Lipa's self-titled debut album that October, and it eventually earned a Grammy win, cementing 'Electricity' as one of the standout dance collaborations of Lipa's earliest rise to global pop stardom.

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