One Kiss

"One Kiss" is a song by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris and English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa.

The video features Lipa in front of a green screen that shows many settings, including a pool where Harris appears as the singer's waiter.

Lipa met Harris at his house in Los Angeles while she was on the Self-Titled Tour, where he played her his previous song and video to get a feeling for where "One Kiss" was going.

[7][8][9] The following month, both artists announced the song with identical social media posts,[10][11] revealing the blue cover art and the release date.

[26][36] Lyrically, the song sees Lipa exploring the idea of falling in love with a romantical interest straight away, and vice versa, mentioning a kiss being used to trigger immense lust.

"[42][44] Mike Wass of Idolator regarded "One Kiss" as "[Harris'] most accessible and instantly catchy track since 'This Is What You Came For' in 2016," labelling its chorus "club-conquering," and writing that the song is "guaranteed to be massive.

"[41] For MTV, Ross McNeilage stated the song is "undoubtedly going to become the soundtrack to our summer" and labelled it "the year's first bona fide sunshine banger."

He concluded by stating the song is "a lot more uplifting" than Lipa's previous dance collaboration "Scared to Be Lonely" (2017) with Martin Garrix.

"[46] Grace Fleisher of Dancing Astronaut regarded the song as a "bubbling crossover" and stated that Harris "plunges deep into the depths of danceability.

"[47] In Billboard, Kat Bein stated that "One Kiss" "stings with humidity and sweat like a foggy warehouse rave in the '90s underground but lingers sweet like a cocktail that sips dangerously easy.

"[24] For the same magazine, Katie Atkinson praised Lipa's "syrupy" vocals and complimented the song's 1990s elements, while also writing it "never goes too deep or overstays its welcome."

"[39] Writing for Uproxx, Katrina Nattress viewed the song as a "club-ready tropical house banger" that "screams sunshine and making out on the dance floor.

"[4] Vice's Lauren O'Neill opined that the song "[conjures] up its summery vibe" despite an inability to "reach the quietly euphoric heights of a number of the moments from Funk Wav Bounces Vol.

[52][53] In April 2020, Christopher Rosa of Glamour ranked "One Kiss" as Lipa's eighth best song, calling it a "perfect pool day in music form" and a "shimmery ode to '90s house" that is "why people install outdoor speakers in their homes.

[63] The following week, the song rose to the summit of the chart, replacing Drake's "Nice for What" (2018) while becoming Harris' ninth and Lipa's second number one single, following "New Rules" (2017) for the latter artist.

[69] In February 2025, the song was awarded a sextuple platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling 3,600,000 track-equivalent units in the UK.

[70] "One Kiss" topped the charts in Austria,[71] Belgium,[72][73] Croatia,[74] the Czech Republic,[75] Ecuador,[76] Germany,[77] Greece,[78] Hungary,[79] Ireland,[80] Lebanon,[81] the Netherlands,[82] Poland,[83] Portugal,[84] Russia,[85] Scotland,[86] Slovakia,[87] and Slovenia.

[98][99] In September 2022, the song received a quadruple platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of 4,000,000 certified units in the US.

[103] The video was directed by Emil Nava, who had previously worked with Harris on many visuals, including "Outside" (2014), "This Is What You Came For" (2016), and "Feels" (2017), as well as Lipa's "Hotter than Hell" (2016).

[104][105] The video begins with Lipa standing in a blue robe against a green screen, before plastic palm trees are seen swaying in the background and her backup dancers soon join her while wearing teal sequin tops and pants.

In the following scenes, Lipa wears an oversized straw hat when lying on a fluffy white rug and also sits in the center of a flower while magenta petals bloom, which later turn yellow and blue.

Lipa also sits on a lounge chair, wearing a purple suit and sunglasses as she watches a multi-coloured dragon puppet, which later has big eyes and dances by Harris.

Luke Morgan Britton of NME viewed the visual as "exotic" and "tropical," while summarizing by writing that it "depicts a poolside Lipa and Harris dressed as a waiter.

"[107] Bein praised the puppets in the video, writing that they "really steal the show," while stating Harris looks "stoic and cool," and Lipa looks "ravishing in vibrant vintage wear.

[111] Lipa gave a solo performance of the song at the opening ceremony that preceded the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final on 26 May of that year in Kyiv.

[132] Topping's stripped down remix was categorized as a tech house track and makes use of bubbling horns, rolling basslines, jumpity hi-hats, and lashings of strings.

Calvin Harris holding a martini for Dua Lipa on a pool deck. Harris wears a suit and Lipa wears a purple outfit.
Harris appears as Lipa's waiter in the music video .