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Hear Me Say

2021 single by Jonas Blue and Léon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ108809611
Source-derived summary

"Hear Me Say" is a song by English DJ and record producer Jonas Blue and Swedish singer Léon. It was released on 28 May 2021 via Positiva Records. The song was written by Daniel James, David Brook, Léon, Leah Haywood, Miya Miya, Rob Ellmore and Blue, who also produced the song.

Composition

The song is written in the key of F major, with a tempo of 122 beats per minute.

Critical reception

The website Popjuice commented that the song "is sure to be played at parties everywhere as lockdowns slowly begin to lift around the world." Rachel Hammermueller of Earmilk described the track's "voice and quality feels right at home." And becomes "a choice tune to welcome the summer."

Music video

The music video was released on 2 July 2021, and directed by Alex Nicholson. The video was filmed in Mexico. It makes "a perfect summer day", including scenes of "lounging on a boat, running through the sand on a beach, exploring the tropics of a lagoon or hanging out in a beach house."

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Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hear Me Say” is 2021 single by Jonas Blue and Léon. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hear, single and Jonas, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021-05-28. For this dossier, Hear, single and Jonas is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q108809611. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Hear Me Say” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.