Potion (with Dua Lipa & Young Thug)

"Potion" with Dua Lipa and Young Thug is one of the stranger successful collaborations of recent years — Harris providing a production that feels simultaneously like the peak of the 1990s UK garage revival and entirely contemporary, Lipa delivering with the effortlessness of someone who has located exactly where her voice and Calvin Harris productions intersect, and Thug contributing a verse so idiosyncratic it shouldn't fit and yet somehow anchors the whole enterprise. The song's title metaphor — love as chemistry, as something done to you rather than chosen — runs through both the lyrics and the production, the groove itself feeling slightly enchanted. It's dance music as complete world rather than mere context.