--- description: Icona pop, the Swedish duo behind "I Love It," returns with a new jazz-age-inspired single, "Emergency." title: Hear Icona Pop's Jazz-Inspired New Single "Emergency" image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hear Icona Pop's Jazz-Inspired New Single "Emergency"  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. May 26, 2015 3:23 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. May 26, 2015 3:23 PM CUT The crisis Icona Pop sings about in the duo’s new single is an emergency of the dance-related variety. When an ambulance is summoned, it seems to be for the express purpose of saving a victim who is lost in the music, perhaps too far gone for rescue. The song moves with a sense of urgency, its cadence reminiscent of Pharrell’s “Come Get It Bae.” But it swaps out that track’s funky beat for a backbone of marching piano and trumpet solos worthy of the Gatsby era. Had it been released a couple of years earlier, it would have been a shoo-in for the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s _Great Gatsby_ adaptation. Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” a collaboration with Charli XCX released in 2012, was a top-ten song of that summer. While “Emergency” doesn’t have quite the same undeniable song-of-summer quality as their breakout stateside hit, it may well be a close second. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3896190/icona-pop-emergency/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3896190/icona-pop-emergency/"},"headline":"Hear Icona Pop's Jazz-Inspired New Single \"Emergency\"","datePublished":"2015-05-26T15:23:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:19.550Z","description":"The Swedish duo taps into jazz-age vibes on their latest track","url":"https://time.com/3896190/icona-pop-emergency/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Pop","Jazz"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3896190/icona-pop-emergency/","name":"Hear Icona Pop's Jazz-Inspired New Single \"Emergency\""}}]}] ```