Jessica also performed an acoustic version of this song with Zedd which was uploaded on YouTube. The song was covered by Jessica Sanchez in her 2013 guest starring on Glee where she performed this song for Regionals competition in the episode "All or Nothing".The song won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard) It has sold 2,238,000 copies in the United States as of March 2014. "Clarity" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at 86, peaked at 8, and was Zedd's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and his most successful song in the US and worldwide. It features Foxes and AJ English and was shot largely in Los Angeles, California. The official music video for the song was released one month after the behind-the-scenes video, on January 11, 2013. One week later, on December 18, an acoustic and piano version was released. 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. On December 11, 2012, a behind-the-scenes video for Clarity was released onto YouTube. If you pull then I'll push too deep and I'll fall right back to you It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common senseĭon't speak as I try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose Walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends
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If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity? If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy? 'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't needĬhasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why Hold still right before we crash 'cause we both know how this endsĪ clock ticks 'til it breaks your glass and I drown in you again High dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to lifeįight fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time I could tell it was going to be this top-40 hit.and I wasn’t interested in having any part of that." Lyrics Me and Zedd were writing 'Poseidon,' but the final vocal production was much different. It's something most people aren’t aware of in the first place. Īfter the song was completed, Porter decided he wanted none of the credit "The final version of 'Clarity' was not the same song Zedd and I produced together. After Foxes did research on Wikipedia about him, she accepted the offer. When Zedd first listened to Foxes' song "Youth", he Skyped her and asked her to be "Clarity"'s vocalist.
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Robinson, during an interview with MTV, described it as "pretty" and as having "kind of like disco chords on trancier sounds, with a nice topline, and a really nice crowd vocal." Prior to embarking on their back-to-back tour, Poseidon, Zedd and Porter Robinson began work on the song, which was at the time named after the tour.