"3 Nights"is the debut single by American recording artistDominic Fike.It was released as a single from hisDon't Forget About Me, DemosEP throughColumbia Recordson October 16, 2018, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Croatia, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and within the top forty of the charts in Germany. "3 Nights" revolves around Fike staying up late at a motel in the "City of Palms," otherwise known asFort Myers, Florida,and the conversations and nude pictures he receives from a girl. The lyrics include Fike offering said girl to stay with him and call him "what you want, when you want, if you want".
In a profile on Fike,The New Yorkersaid the parent EP of the song is "nostalgic for the early-two-thousands beach-bonfire style ofJack Johnson,with some of the watered-down reggae of311and theRed Hot Chili Peppers."It further said" 3 Nights "could" generously be classified as high-quality retail music ", calling it" easy to listen to "and comparing it to"Rude"by Canadianreggae fusionbandMagic![2]Matthew Strauss ofPitchforkgave the track a negative review; he described it as "absolutely harmless to a fault" and "neither soothing nor pleasant", further criticizing its lyrics as "mildly endearing but utterly forgettable".[3]
A music video directed by Nathan Rickard was released on April 4, 2019, and features Fike with friends in his hometown ofNaples, Floridaand Miami International Inn Motel, with a snippet of an unreleased song being played at the end.[4]Kevin Abstractalso shared an alternate video he directed for the song, which was described by Fike as "messing around".[5]
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