"Giants"
Single by Lights
from the album Skin & Earth
Released	July 24, 2017 (2017-07-24)
Genre	Pop, power pop
Length	3:16
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Lights Iain James Mick Schultz
Producer(s)	Mick Schultz
Lights singles chronology
"Running with the Boys" (2015) "Giants" (2017) "We Were Here" (2018)

"Giants" is a song recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter Lights for her fourth studio album, Skin & Earth.^[1] Lights co-wrote the song with Iain James and the track's producer, Mick Schultz. It was released on June 23, 2017 as the album's lead single.^[2] "Giants" was serviced to American hot adult contemporary radio on July 24, 2017.^[3] In January 2018, four new versions of the song, recorded in Japanese, French, Spanish and Tagalog, were released.^[4]

Content

The title and hook for the song were inspired by a phrase featured on British currency: "And we will ride on the shoulders of giants."^[5] The chorus and verses for the song were developed separately and are set to different tempos; according to Lights, this created a "challenging structure" to deal with, but the writers were determined to mesh the two parts.^[5]

Chart performance

"Giants" debuted at number 41 on the Canada Hot AC chart dated August 12, 2017 and has since reached a peak of 14.^[6] "Giants" also debuted at number 39 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart dated August 19, 2017.^[7] This made it Lights' first song to chart in the United States.

Music video

The accompanying music video for "Giants" was directed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and premiered June 23, 2017.^[8] It takes place in the dystopian world created for the Skin & Earth comic series connected with the album, and introduces characters and events that takes place in the series' fifth issue.^[9] In the video, Lights plays En, the protagonist from her Skin & Earth comics, as she meets a mysterious being and is transported to another dimension.^[1][10]

Charts

Release history

References