Let Go for Tonight
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Let Go for Tonight
| cover = Let Go for Tonight by Foxes.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Foxes
| album = Glorious
| released = 23 February 2014
| recorded = 2013
| studio =
| genre = Dance-pop{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27619790.amp |title=Pop singer Foxes cast in Doctor Who |publisher=BBC News |date=29 May 2014 |access-date=3 June 2025}}
| length = 3:58
| label = Sign of the Times
| writer =
| producer =
- Mike Spencer
- Kid Harpoon
| prev_title = Youth
| prev_year = 2013
| next_title = Holding onto Heaven
| next_year = 2014
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Pecj5GGjQi8|"Let Go for Tonight"}}}}
}}
"Let Go for Tonight" is a song by English singer and songwriter Foxes from her debut studio album, Glorious (2014). The song was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2014 as the album's second single. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 7, staying in the chart for 10 weeks.{{cite web |title=Let Go for Tonight {{!}} full Official Chart History |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/let-go-for-tonight/ |access-date=2021-09-05 |publisher=Official Charts Company |location=United Kingdom}}
Background
"Let Go for Tonight" was originally supposed to be on Foxes's extended play Warrior (2012), but was later revamped for her debut studio album Glorious (2014).{{cite web |url=https://www.idolator.com/7500135/foxes-let-go-for-tonight-video |title=Foxes' 'Let Go For Tonight' Gets Revamped For Her Debut: Watch The Colorful Video |last=Williott |first=Carl |work=Idolator |date=6 January 2014 |access-date=31 October 2022}}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |fix-attempted=yes |url=}}
Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "Let Go for Tonight" was first released onto YouTube on 5 January 2014 at a total length of 3 minutes and 53 seconds.{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pecj5GGjQi8 |title=Foxes - Let Go for Tonight (Official Video) |via=YouTube |date=2014-01-05 |access-date=2 June 2025}} The music video starts out with Foxes and several other people sat in a white room at a white table. The song starts focusing on Foxes, and as the chorus swells, everyone begins throwing various food items and paint. This continues throughout the song, until the last bridge, in which Foxes runs out of the room (revealed to be a three-wall stand set up in a hilly field) and into a hilly field, followed by the others. Foxes ends the song being carried by a man. As of November 2019, the song had 25 million views on YouTube.
Critical reception
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a very positive review stating:
"The original version of Foxes' 'Let Go For Tonight' - which featured on her 'Warrior EP' back in the summer of 2012 - was, along with her previous offering 'Youth', a song that made us really fall for the singer. As such, our natural instinct was to fear the worst when it was announced that she would be releasing a spruced-up version of it as her latest single. But while the new version has undergone a considerable makeover - the stripped down, piano-led production has been given a boost with muscular beats and crashing drums - it has somehow managed to retain the naive and carefree essence of the original. "Let go for tonight baby, who needs sleep tonight?" she asks over twinkly synths and strings that take flight on the chorus; the result, an anthemic ode to all-nighters that deserves to rule the world." {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |last=Copsey |first=Robert |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/review/a549131/foxes-let-go-for-tonight-review-anthemic-ode-to-all-nighters.html |title=Foxes 'Let Go For Tonight' review: 'Anthemic ode to all-nighters' |publisher=Digital Spy |date=2014-02-23 |access-date=2 June 2025}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline = Digital download - single
| title1 = Let Go for Tonight
| length1 = 3:58
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Digital download - EP
| title1 = Let Go for Tonight
| note1 = Kat Krazy Remix
| length1 = 4:25
| title2 = Let Go for Tonight
| note2 = High Contrast Remix
| length2 = 4:54
| title3 = Let Go for Tonight
| note3 = Fred Falke Remix
| length3 = 6:58
}}
Chart performance
=Weekly charts=
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| Chart (2014)
! Peak |
|---|
| {{single chart|Australiapandora|59|artist=Foxes|song=Let Go for Tonight|accessdate=16 August 2014|url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20140318130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20140319-0000/Issue1254.pdf|urltitle=The ARIA Report - Issue #1254|rowheader=true}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} |
| {{single chart|Flanders Tip|25|artist=Foxes|song=Let Go For Tonight|rowheader=true|access-date=2 June 2025}} |
| {{single chart|Flanders Dance|46|artist=Foxes|song=Let Go For Tonight|rowheader=true|access-date=2 June 2025}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardeurodigital|14|artist=Foxes|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 August 2014}} |
| {{single chart|Ireland|6|year=2014|week=09|rowheader=true|access-date=2 June 2025}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardjapanhot100|12|artist=Foxes|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 August 2014}} |
| {{single chart|Scotland|7|date=2014-03-18|rowheader=true|access-date=2 June 2025}} |
| {{single chart|UK|7|date=2014-03-08|rowheader=true|access-date=2 June 2025}} |
Certifications
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|award=Silver|type=single|artist=Foxes|title=Let Go for Tonight|access-date=22 April 2016|relyear=2014|certyear=2016|id=13695-4072-1}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|noshipments=true | nosales=true | streaming=true}}
Release history
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! Region ! Date ! Format ! Label ! {{abbr|Ref.|References}} |
| United Kingdom
|Sign of the Times | 23 February 2014 |