“Different Colors” by Walk the Moon

"Different Colors" went to American alternative radio through RCA on May 5, 2015, the second single from Walk the Moon's second album, Talking Is Hard, and the follow-up to "Shut Up and Dance". Eli Maiman, Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray and Sean Waugaman wrote it, Tim Pagnotta produced and Neal Avron mixed.

It's a big-hearted rallying cry for embracing each other's differences and standing up to discrimination of every kind, pitched somewhere between alt-rock, indie rock, electropop and straight pop. Critics split: some loved the chorus and the production, others found it a comedown after the band's earlier singles. It climbed to seven on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart anyway, their third top-ten there, and they played it at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, while Pepsi, AT&T and Apple all put it to work in their campaigns.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.