Calvin Harris - "Heatstroke"

[Juan Carlos]

"Heatstroke"
Written by Adam Wiles, Jeffery Williams, Pharrell Williams and Brittany Hazzard
Produced by Calvin Harris

New single from Calvin Harris called "Heatstroke", which features Young Thug, Pharrell Williams and Ariana Grande. The track, which was released on March 31, is currently under Cool New Music on AllAccess.

[Juan Carlos]

Calvin Harris has teased a collaboration with Young Thug on both his Snapchat and Instagram stories and you could listen to it here.

[maine]

Oh...

[Raccoon]

oh hell yes

[Kurt]

Who's the female voice at the end? Sounds sort of like Corinne Bailey Rae, which would be unexpected, haha.

[#LisaRinna]

The idea of this sounds messy as hell. I imagine the studio scenarios.. welp!

[Juan Carlos]

Jan 29, 2017 23:07:21 GMT -5 Kurt said:

Who's the female voice at the end? Sounds sort of like Corinne Bailey Rae, which would be unexpected, haha.

No idea. I was reading in a Calvin's Tumblr fansite that they are suggesting that the vocals are from Pharrell Williams and Jessie Reyez, but I don't think that either vocals are from them though.

[maine]

(the fifth Calvin TBA thread lmao)

Calvin teased on Snapchat to check out "Slide" because you don't wanna miss that one when he will be releasing another single "soon".

[Juan Carlos]

Not sure if this is going to be the next track to be pushed, but Calvin uploaded two teasers of it on his Instagram story and you could listen to them here.

[sergejdordij]

Oh, dear...
Is this really happening?
Calvin Harris & Young Thug having a song together?

[Juan Carlos]

The track is called "Heatstroke" and features Young Thug, Pharrell and Ariana Grande.

[Harx]

So Slide is not getting a video

[Dylan :)]

I could do without Young Thug but Ariana being on it will probably help me get over it. Excited for this :)

[NeRD]

So is all these singles part of the same campaign as TIWYCF? Is he promoting an upcoming album, or?

[Linnethia Monique]

Mar 28, 2017 13:22:46 GMT -5 NeRD said:

So is all these singles part of the same campaign as TIWYCF? Is he promoting an upcoming album, or?

I believe his goal this year was just to release a bunch of singles instead of an album. 10 was the specific number he gave at the beginning of the year.

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

Mar 28, 2017 13:22:46 GMT -5 NeRD said:

Is he promoting an upcoming album, or?

Calvin had announced a while back that he would be just releasing singles instead of a proper album.

Perhaps it's better to do it this way because if something doesn't stick or underperforms, they can easily move on. I think that the variety of sounds and styles he has been doing with some of the singles may make it challenging to make a cohesive album based on them.

[Raccoon]

YOUNG THUGGGGGGG IM SCREAMING

[Sambalada]

Didn't expect it to be Ari at all. If the music was in the same root as "Slide" then I'm EXCITED for this.

[maine]

Kinda hope this doesn't come out for awhile because I want "Slide" to smash.

[Deleted]

Sounds interesting on paper and the snippet, and since it's Ari I'm more inclined to check it out, this could go really well or really badly.

[Glove Slap]

I'm not surprised that Ariana Grande ended up on one of his tracks at all; what is surprising is that she's on with two other people. This does sound interesting, Thug's features are hit and miss for me, so we'll see.

Calvin also pinned the tweet, which makes me thing that this is coming out sooner rather than later regardless of what else is done with Slide.

[Juan Carlos]

Following the same pattern of Calvin's latest releases since "This Is What You Came For", this should be out this Friday. I personally doubt that he announced the track to release it in a couple of weeks indifferently of how "Slide" will do after that.

As a side note, the female vocals from the first snippet should be from Starrah if it's considered that she's listed as a co-writer of the song and she's doing the additional background vocals too. That said, I don't know how Ariana got involved here, although I guess it was around the time when they coincided in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest back in September of last year and she denied the rumours of her involvement in Calvin's "My Way".

[Linnethia Monique]

Mar 28, 2017 23:50:16 GMT -5 Juan Carlos said:

Following the same pattern of Calvin's latest releases since "This Is What You Came For", this should be out this Friday. I personally doubt that he announced the track to release it in a couple of weeks indifferently of how "Slide" will do after that.

As a side note, the female vocals from the first snippet should be from Starrah if it's considered that she's listed as a co-writer of the song and she's doing the additional background vocals too. That said, I don't know how Ariana got involved here, although I guess it was around the time when they coincided in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest back in September of last year and she denied the rumours of her involvement in Calvin's "My Way".

Well Pharrell is a big part of her next album so that could be the line on how she got on the track as well. Andrew could've easily recorded and mastered her vocals during a studio session over the past 8 months.

[Choco]

On one hand, I love Slide and want it to smash, but on the other hand I could use a new Calvin track. I've loved all of his recent singles.

[Deleted]

So we have a DJ, a rapper, an R&B singer, and a pop singer on one song? Very interesting.

[g8erboi]

Are Pharrell and Ariana not properly credited anymore?

[maine]

Mar 30, 2017 9:53:42 GMT -5 g8erboi said:

Are Pharrell and Ariana not properly credited anymore?

[g8erboi]

Mar 30, 2017 10:32:27 GMT -5 maine said:

Mar 30, 2017 9:53:42 GMT -5 g8erboi said:

Are Pharrell and Ariana not properly credited anymore?

I noticed the thread title was changed, lol.

[maine]

Mar 30, 2017 10:34:15 GMT -5 g8erboi said:

Mar 30, 2017 10:32:27 GMT -5 maine said:

I noticed the thread title was changed, lol.

The thread title won't fit Pharrell and Ariana Grande's names.

[Juan Carlos]

Mar 30, 2017 10:34:15 GMT -5 g8erboi said:

I noticed the thread title was changed, lol.

Sorry about that, but as James told you before, the title thread looks weird if I try to include all the featured names and there aren't enough characters to do that. Sigh!

Anyway, no official confirmation yet, but the Official Charts is suggesting that this will be out tomorrow.

From the Official Charts:

There's a new single out this week by Calvin Harris' who, judging by the title of his latest track, we're guessing is warming up nicely for a season of summer bangers. "Heatstroke", which arrives just five weeks after his last release "Slide", is a mega-collab with Ariana Grande, Pharrell and Young Thug.