Memories
by David Guetta (featuring Kid Cudi)

Album: One Love (2009)
Charted: 15 46
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Songfacts®:

  • This electro-club banger is the fourth single from French DJ and dance producer David Guetta's album, One Love. The song features Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi.
  • The song's music video, which features some explicit language and partial nudity, shows Kid Cudi and David Guetta walking along the Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, near midtown. The club scenes were filmed in Nocturnal (50 Northeast 11th Street Miami, FL 33132.
  • The song is about having happy memories of letting everything go and having a great night out. Its message of holding onto those good times became relevant a decade later during the COVID pandemic. Young people, unable to go out clubbing, found solace in the lyrics and began uploading videos to TikTok with their own interpretation of "I just wanna let it go for the night, that would be the best therapy for me."
  • As a reaction to the TikTok hype around "Memories," Guetta released a remix of the track on January 7, 2021. He premiered the remix during his New Year's live set from Paris' Louvre museum.

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