"Trouble" is a song recorded by English singer and songwriter Natalia Kills for her second studio album of the same name (2013), appearing on it as its closing track.
Additional production was provided by Emile Haynie and Guillaume Doubet, who along with Bhasker, programmed all the musical instruments played in the song.
[2] The song's instrumentation utilizes stadium drums,[2] guitars and keyboards,[1] while background vocals resemblant of choirs—and serve as arena rock elements—sing "whoas" repeatedly.
Jake Buck of Vada described it as being "the perfect ending to represent the album’s entire theme of badass, rawness, [and] honesty".
[8] Bradley Stern from MuuMuse described it as "Ryan Tedder-meets-Fun" while observing that the "cinematic quality" of Lana Del Rey's music was present in the track.
[6] Idolator editor Sam Lansky was very positive about "Trouble", favoring the "anthemic sound", which he described as evoking the catalog of English indie rock band Florence and the Machine.
[9] Bradley Stern from MuuMuse deemed it a "perfect way to close a celebration of imperfection", and compared it to the music of the band fun.
As they start to hallucinate, images of dilated pupils appear quickly on the screen and they are shown on the same setting dressed formally.
[13] Writing for MTV News, Brad Stern opined that the visual was a "big Parental Advisory warning in motion" due to its explicit themes, and found it resemblant of Quentin Tarantino's filmography.
[14] Idolator's Mike Wass deemed the video "visually arresting" and recognized it as Kills' "most fully realized" videoclip.
[15] On 21 November 2013, Kills performed album songs "Trouble", "Saturday Night" and "Marlboro Lights" at the studios of New Zealand radio station The Edge.
Bradley Stern from Idolator praised her vocal performance—he wrote that she had previously "prove[n] herself as a capable live vocalist" and that the Cherrytree House performance was "no exception".
[19] Since its online release, it became popular on social networking websites, peaking at number one on The Hype Machine's Twitter chart.