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Houdini (Foster the People song)
Single by Foster the People
"Houdini" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People from their debut studio album Torches.
Mark foster
Written by the group's frontman Mark Foster, the song was first released as a promotional single exclusively in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2011. The song was released as the album's fifth single on May 15, 2012. It is featured on the soundtracks for video games SSX and Sackboy: A Big Adventure and in the episode "Yes, Then Zero" of Gossip Girl.[1][2] The song appeared in the 2012 film LOL.
It also appeared in the TV shows Awkward and Suits.
Writing and recording
"Houdini" was written by the group's frontman Mark Foster while he was working as a commercial jingle writer at Mophonics.
While showing his then-girlfriend the offices on a so-called "take-your-girlfriend-to-work-day", Foster demonstrated how he wrote songs, putting a simple drum beat and vocal sample together in