Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Team Up With David Guetta and Kiiara On Latest Single: Listen

I will be entirely upfront with this track. I was prepared to hate it. While I have massive respect for David Guetta for his impact on dance music as a whole both his and DV&LM’s recent productions have been lacking in originality and quality. While the the latest collaborative release from the three is not something groundbreaking it is honestly pretty good.

The star of ‘Complicated’ is Kiiara who makes even the sometimes tacky lyrics shine with gorgeous vocals. The vocals are so electrifying that this hook will get stuck deep in your head. You may even loathe yourself for singing the lyrics about casual sex over and over again as the day go on, but they just work. The drop to the track is minimalist which is a welcome change from the expected big room.

All in all while ‘Complicated’ will still bring out the haters as it is the cool thing to do these days with artists who are commonly found in the top 10 of the DJ Mag Top 100, but Guetta and DV&LM created a bit of a gem with ‘Complicated’. You don’t need to look past the surface and make things more complicated, this track is catchy and fun. Yes that was a pun. Take a listen below.

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike weren’t just big, they were repeat #1s

The Belgian twin brothers had already held the top spot on the DJ Mag Top 100 multiple times by this point, a poll that, love it or hate it, still carries real weight in dance music as a measure of an artist’s global reach. Teaming up with Guetta, an artist with that same kind of long-running mainstream pull, meant this collab was always going to get judged against a pretty high bar, which is exactly the skepticism this review opens with.

Kiiara had already proven she could carry a hook this big

Kiiara’s breakout single “Gold” had already shown she had a genuinely distinctive vocal style, all breathy, chopped-up phrasing that producers loved to build hooks around. Getting her on “Complicated” wasn’t a random pop feature, it was three heavyweight producers tapping a vocalist who’d already proven she could turn a simple hook into something that gets stuck in your head for days, which lines up exactly with what this review says actually worked about the track.

The music video leaned all the way into the song’s chaotic energy

Fitting for a track literally called “Complicated,” the official video doubled down on that theme with an over-the-top, action-movie style visual pairing DV&LM and Guetta with Kiiara. It’s the kind of big-budget rollout that only happens when three artists at this level of DJ Mag Top 100 clout combine forces, and it reinforced that this single was being treated as a genuine event release, not just another collab single quietly dropped between tour dates.