Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight Lyrics - Genius

“Dance With Me Tonight” is a single by Olly Murs, released on November 18, 2011, taken from Murs' second studio album, In Case You Didn’t Know.

“Dance With Me Tonight” peaked at number two in the UK for two consecutive weeks, before finally earning Murs his well-deserved, third UK number one single in December of 2011, after his singles “Please Don’t Let Me Go” and “Heart Skips a Beat”.

“Dance With Me Tonight” was certified gold in the UK.

Olly Murs wrote “Dance With Me Tonight” in the spring of 2011 with Claude Kelly and Steve Robson, after their successful collaborations including the song “Please Don’t Let Me Go” from his first album Please Don’t Let Me Go — EP.

Inspired by the frustration of modern-day dating with social media and such, Olly Murs says about “Dance With Me Tonight”:

“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 corresponding music video premiered on YouTube on October 14 2011. The filming of the music video took place in late August 2011 in Putney, South West London. Some of the iconic monuments shown in the video include the Putney Wharf Tower and the Putney Bridge. For the audiences and fans in the US, Olly Murs released a lyric video which consisted of his fans dancing and clips of him in America.

Critics had mixed reviews on the song, Hit the Floor magazine rated “Dance With Me Tonight” five out of five, while Digital Spy rated it a three out of five.

“Dance With Me Tonight” has successfully integrated​ itself in pop culture, returning as the theme tune for the ITV dancing show Stepping Out, and in an advertisement​ in Kinder Chocolate Bars.