2013 was a huge year for Steve Aoki as he would release a massive hit with Linkin Park, collaborate with R3hab, and release one of his greatest songs ever, ‘Boneless.’ Named after a skateboarding trick and simply aimed to be a fun club song, this song would go well beyond the expectations of the artists behind it and became one of biggest electronic tracks of the year.
Aoki collaborated with Chris Lake and Tujamo who were both building a name for themselves in the early 2010s and ‘Boneless’ helped massively in giving them their breakthrough. Even before it was released, people were loving the track as it had been leaked early on in 2013. Aoki recalls that when he started playing the song live people were already singing along with the melody because they had been listening to the leaked song for months already. Once ‘Boneless’ was officially released the hype was realised as it quickly became a huge club banger that everybody knew and would hit the charts in Germany, Austria, and Belgium. A year after its release the track would receive vocals from Kid Ink to create ‘Delirious (Boneless)’ which sparked even more success for the song.
The melody is one that is unforgettable with people still chanting along to it 11 years on from its release and crowds still bouncing every time they hear it. A song like ‘Boneless’ perfectly encapsulates the beauty of EDM as it’s able to unite people from all over the world in singing along with the universal language of an awesome melody.
