Olly Murs

"Dance with Me Tonight" is the latest single by English singer-songwriter Olly Murs, taken from his second studio album In Case You Didn't Know. It was released as the album's second single on November 18, 2011 and was written by Murs, Claude Kelly and Steve Robson.

Murs wrote the song with Claude Kelly and Steve Robson in the spring of 2011, following their successful collaborations on the first album including his debut number one, "Please Don't Let Me Go". Lyrically, Murs has said that the song was inspired by his frustration with modern day dating, in particular the incessant use of social networking websites: "I'm sick of Twitter and Facebook, you know, I want to meet a girl in a club or in a bar. Everytime I meet a girl they're like 'Just add me on Facebook, or Tweet me', and it's like why don't we go out on a proper date like we used to back in the early 2000s, go for a proper drink and get to know her? So I went into the studio and just went, 'OK, I wanna write a really old, classic song about seeing a really fit girl in a club and taking her out on a date.'"

The song peaked at number 2 in the UK for two consecutive weeks before finally giving Murs his third UK number 1 single in December 2011. The track will be released as the album's third single across Europe in November 2012, and as with his previous European single "Oh My Goodness" will receive a CD release that was absent in the UK.

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