2015Released
3:37

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about One Time. By Songfacts®.

This early Marian Hill song finds their vocalist, Samantha Gongol, letting a playboy type know that she won't be another of his one-and-out conquests. "I'm not the kind of drum you play one time," she purrs. The song set the stage for the persona Gongol took on with many of their other songs. "It's one of my favorites," she said in a Songfacts interview. "It's so fun, it's really light and really bold and sassy. I have so much fun performing it."

The moody production by Jeremy Lloyd incorporates a saxophone riff from Steve Davit, who often joined the duo in the studio and on stage. Lloyd would often build tracks from Davit's recordings, mixing them with the array of beats and loops on his computer workstation.

The first Marian Hill song to get any attention was "Whiskey," which got picked up by various blogs in 2013. "One Time" earned them a bigger following - it was the song they remember people singing along to at their early concerts. The duo got a lot more heat in 2017 when their song "Down" was used in a commercial for Apple AirPods.

Top Listeners

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of One Time.
AKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
160BPM

Album

The album One Time is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released One Time.
Photo Finish / Republic Records
© 2015 Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.(Photo Finish)
℗ 2015 Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.(Photo Finish)

See your Spotify stats (with number of plays and minutes listened) and discover new music.

Music data, artist images, album covers, and song previews are provided by Spotify. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB.

5.8MArtists
73.5MSongs
12.3MAlbums
6.3KGenres
2.5MLabels
493KPlaylists