Geographies of layered, dynamic, spacious, as well as punchy Electronic Dance Music (EDM) genres are mostly divided by tempo and drum pattern.
Whithersoever high-energy music like the latter, Heavy Metal or Upbeat Techno, works for some ADHD brains or not — once upon a tad under a fortnight before today — a ditty: that unclutters on house keys as well as misty atmosphere, before exploding into a riot of shuffling drums, golden sax, and searing strings; was let loose via Warner Records.
“I only want you when you’re gone, gone gone/Playing like we’re done, done done/I love your game, drive me insane,” is a massive chorus from this specific offering, on which Toni Watson as well as Jaten Collin Dimsdale accurately aim their pitch, therewith, creating room to sing in a comfortable lower register and effortlessly reach higher notes.
With more than 10 million arpeggio arsenals as well as 65 million singles — sold worldwide, plus, 30 billion — Swedish audio streaming and media service provider — Spotify streams harvested under his watch; Pierre David Guetta, who — way over a week from now — would have been around the sun 58 times: merges his signature stamina with a more soulful edge on this spick-and-span donut christened: ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’.
The latter French Disc Jockey (DJ) as well as record producer looked around the field and found the former two singer-songwriters, who share chart topping swashbuckling habits.
Using Tones And I as a moniker, the “first” one is a Pop artist; with an absconding banger — ‘Dance Monkey’ — that placed the top spot in over 30 countries, including her home country Australia.
From officially wreaking over 12 billion streams to reaping multiple awards as well as sold-out tours; this Mornington Peninsula busker-cum-global Pop force, is scything it all idyllically.
Besides the last touched upon being the ‘most Shazamed song in the world’ (the number of times a user pushes the button to identify a sound that is playing) on Shazam — an application that can identify euphony, flicks, advertising as well as television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device; this smacker by Tones And I lives in Spotify’s Top 10 Most-Streamed Songs of All-Time.
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His being a “happy chance” of an American by birth creator of genre-blending composition — that includes elements of Soul, Country, as well as Pop; last 12-month, the “second” one who goes by the sobriquet Teddy Swims, bred a pomp opus named ‘Lose Control’: which would clench on position nine with 110 weeks on the chart, and still counting. Having coolly catapulted, before hotly anchoring the Billboard Hot 100 summit; this day and age, the ballad — holds the record for the longest run-in history!
A 6x multi-platinum artist originally from Conyers, Georgia — who has spawned nearly four billion global streams — coming with roses as well as plenty green shoots to set the world alight; as luck would have it, Teddy Swims’ third EP (extended play) so-called — ‘Tough Love’ (2022) — would become his first entry on the Billboard 200.
Now, the colossal lullaby — ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ — marks the first time that the 5x voted number one Disc Jockey Guetta; has grafted with Tones as well as Teddy. A past tap on American singer, actress, and television personality Kelendria Trene Rowland — that bore him a head-in-the-clouds berceuse ‘When Love Takes Over’ — saw Billboard rank the space-bound anthem: as the top dance-pop tag team of all time; a testament to Guetta’s incredible influence, taste, as well as reputation as one of the greatest consonance aria Einstein of our time.
Subsequently, this multi-award-winning global dance tonal pattern icon; acknowledges that as the up-to-the-second collaboration with Tones and Teddy came together, there was — “a little bit of magic in that”.
On fire, Tones And I matches her emotional intensity on the jam — ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ — as she belts out her side of the story: “Had a good bad lovin’ in my heart / And now I need a sequel to the movie that we made.”
Since the willingness to create champagne melody has more than a little bit of something real special in it; likewise, Teddy Swims sets the tone with his unmistakable, dynamic voice: “We were fire, impossible to tame/ Like oil in the ocean, no way to put out the flame.”
Guetta utters that he could not be happier as the last-mentioned vocalists — who, if being sharp instrumentalists is a crucial sonic element that can define the vibe as well as memorability of a track: they are conscientiously able to sculpt “flowing with honey” rhythmic jingles by means of piano, ukulele, keyboards, as well as drum pads; have the “most amazing, soulful voices on the planet right now.”
The spiraling Soul-Pop tribute to the authoritative yank of toxic love, driven by incontrovertible dance-floor rhythms as well as clap-along gospel umph: ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ — is only the last epic bit in a around-the-clock year for Guetta. He only dispassionate wrapped up four months of Ibiza residencies; together with his legendary F*** Me I’m Famous! Series — at Ushuaia on Mondays, and his loud-mouthed up-to-date Galactic Circus show — at UNVRS on Fridays.
The euphony programmer has also unleashed what feels like myriad collaborations, remixes, as well as original beats this 12-month period. Continuing a historic creative partnership, Guetta reunited with 9x Grammy-nominated star Sia Kate Isobelle Furler — an Australian singer-songwriter — for the commanding red-hot number so-called ‘Beautiful People’; which sling-shot to top position on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, giving him his record-breaking 18th chart-topper at Dance Radio.
More to that, the DJ and record producer presently has a globe-trotting slate of headlining festival dates ahead of him; and is also tagging along his eye-boggling Monolith stage setup to the keen assemblage.
The first two announced dates of his year 2026 Ultimate Monolith Show — at Paris’ Stade de France arena; sold out almost immediately — to the tune of 240,000 tickets. So, Guetta has added a third on June 11 — with special guest, Dutch Disc Jockey as well as record producer: Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON.
Shirking manqué, Teddy Swims has been on his major sold-out global tour for much of the 2025 period of time. He recently hatched his emotionally walloping as well as deeply resonant ‘I’ve Tried Everything but Therapy’ (Complete Edition).
What is found in it, is a holy grail of unblemished and known jazzy loops like ‘God Went Crazy’, ‘Are You Even Real’ featuring Giveon Dezmann Evans, an American Rhythm & Blues vocalist-composer, as well as ‘All Gas, No Brakes’ a joint venture with mononymously known as BigXthaPlug — American rapper, librettist as well as record producer — Xavier Landum.
A perfect marriage of the Roland TR-808 Kick and TR-909 Kick drum machines playing up a lyrical narrative as well as a sonic element defining the vibes and memorability of a track; Teddy Swims’ last cited drudgery of tempi swinging strands — also pops open rhythmic wealth of croons that include: ‘Guilty’, ‘Bad Dreams’, ‘The Door’, as well as ‘Lose Control’.
In the interim, Tones And I is gearing up for a next harmonious epoch, following the 2024 release of her exceedingly yearned for sophomore album named ‘Beautifully Ordinary’, on which she is the sole writer on nearly every piece of lilt. Having correspondingly co-produced the “peacocking” LP (long play); the chef-d'oeuvre cunningly captures her artistic evolution as well as personal growth — since exploding onto the scene.
‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ excavated by contrast; palpably, the topography of David Guetta, Tones And I, as well as Teddy Swims’ exodus — is overtly nowhere near do or die territories!
- BIOGRAPHY: Grant Notho Khumalo (formerly Grant Moyo) is a prolific writer, innovative media personality, entrepreneur and a creative artist who is passionate about using his creative mind for the betterment of society.
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