Mike Posner explaining the inspiration for the song, August 2015

Then when I came down I felt 10 years older. He holds up this little bag of pills and is like, 'You want one?' And drunk Mike Posner was like, 'Eff it, yeah.' So I took one and I had never done that before, and then I felt amazing. He was like, 'Are you Mike Posner?' and he was all excited. And most people didn't know who the heck I was in Ibiza except for this one guy who recognized me. I would go back and forth between the backstage and the VIP area and then where the actual kids were. I just sort of moseyed out into the audience to watch Avicii spin from their point of view. We were at his show and I was drinking at the time. so might as well go to Ibiza, right? I had never been there before. I had written a song with Avicii that week in Sweden called 'Stay with You' and he was playing in Ibiza so I said, 'I will just go there with you,' because I was already in Europe. I was already under the influence of alcohol at the time.

The song became Posner's biggest single, outperforming his debut, ' Cooler than Me' (2010), and was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year. It achieved high chart positions in Posner's native United States, where it reached number one on both the Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart and the Billboard Pop Songs chart, also peaking at number four on the main chart Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. In the latter country, the song remained at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. The SeeB remix peaked within the top ten of the charts in twenty-seven countries, including number one in Belgium, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Posner later confirmed that the identity of the mystery substance was MDMA. The title references Ibiza, a Mediterranean island that is part of the Balearic Islands of Spain, while the pill was a 'mystery' drug according to Posner. The original version is on Posner's second EP The Truth, while both versions are on his second studio album At Night, Alone. The song, originally acoustic guitar-based, was remixed by Norwegian production duo (now trio) SeeB and released digitally as a single in the United States on April 14, 2015. ' I Took a Pill in Ibiza' (also known by its censored title ' In Ibiza' or its clean title ' I Took a Plane to Ibiza') is a song by American singer Mike Posner. Official Music Video (SeeB remix) on YouTube

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