"Boneless" is a track by American DJ and producer Steve Aoki in collaboration with European dance music producers Chris Lake and Tujamo and courtesy of and in association with the original producer and composer . The song was named after the skateboarding trick of the same name. It was released on August 23, 2013 through Dim Mak Records and Ultra Records. The single received success through various dance charts in Europe; it peaked on the overall singles charts at number 49 in Germany, number 42 in Austria, and number 44 in Belgium (Wallonia). A vocal version of the song featuring the vocals of hip-hop recording artist Kid Ink was released the following year.
The music video for "Boneless" was recorded at and takes place in Venice Beach, Los Angeles. In the video, Chris Lake ("The Scribbler") and Steve "Benihana" Aoki star as the heads of two different skate gangs known as "The Rampants" and "The Dimmaks". The two groups have a skate-off. The video was directed by Peter Falloon a.k.a. The Bear, who worked with Monument Media to deliver the 1980s skater-inspired video.
A vocal version of the song, entitled "Delirious (Boneless)", was released on June 3, 2014 as the second single from Steve Aoki's second studio album Neon Future.I. This version features rapper Kid Ink and was co-written by Erin Beck, Whitney Phillips, Jenson Vaughan, and Aid "Valsal" Vllasaliu. The song was featured in the soundtrack of the 2014 film Step Up: All In (as well as Aoki's previous single "Rage the Night Away"), the song was also featured on the 2015 film Furious 7 (although it is not included in the film's soundtrack album. However, it is featured on the deluxe edition of the soundtrack). The song was featured in the 2017 film Smurfs: The Lost Village. The song was also featured in the trailer and TV spots of the 2017 film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.
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A year after the original song's release, the official lyric video for "Delirious (Boneless)" was published to YouTube on August 27, 2014.[24] The "Delirious" version was also given its own music video, which was directed by Golden Wolf and published to YouTube on October 9.[25]