‘It’s Just Catchy As Hell’: Tinashe & Disco Lines on Their Summer (And Fall) Smash ‘No Broke Boys’

It was the evening of Aug. 3, and Tinashe and Disco Lines were enjoying the perks of their success.

Sitting successful a blistery tub successful Las Vegas with a unit of friends and family, the brace raised glasses of Dom Pérignon and toasted accomplishing the rarest of feats — making the uncommon dance crossover hit.

Earlier successful the time they’d performed this opus unneurotic unrecorded for the archetypal clip ever poolside astatine the city’s lavish Fontainebleau edifice — with Tinashe sauntering astir onstage successful stilettos and singing portion Disco Lines worked the decks and the assemblage earlier them bounced on to the beat.

Widely considered creation music’s — possibly immoderate music’s — 2025 opus of the summer, the duo’s teamup “No Broke Boys” has spent the past 11 weeks connected the Hot 100, peaking astatine No. 39 and presently situated astatine No. 41. It’s generated 91.2 cardinal on-demand authoritative U.S. streams and 292.8 cardinal on-demand authoritative planetary streams, according to Luminate. In August, it ascended to the No. 1 spot connected Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, unseating Marshmello and Kane Brown‘s “Miles On It” which had been holding down the apical spot for much than a year. It besides reached No. 1 connected Dance/Mix Show Airplay successful August and is present astatine No. 3 successful its 14th week connected the chart.

“I deliberation it’s conscionable catchy arsenic hell,” Tinashe says of what’s driving the song’s occurrence during a radical Zoom with Billboard and Disco Lines “It’s amusive for the summertime. It’s got that energy. It’s precise tongue-in-cheek. It gets radical going.”

The opus is simply a instrumentality connected the penultimate way from Tinashe’s 2024 medium Quantum Baby, with the Disco Lines collab dialing up the BPM, adding an urgent synth accumulation and loading up the way with agleam and bouncy physics flourishes. This mentation went viral aft Disco Lines, the Colorado-born whose existent sanction is Thadeus Labuszewski, played it during a acceptable astatine EDC Las Vegas 2025 this past May.

“I played it astatine EDC, and past I played the collab successful San Diego, and each time, everyone jumped,” says Disco Lines. “So I was like, ‘Tinashe, ‘Check this s–t out.’ Then a clump of radical kept utilizing it connected the internet, and it conscionable gained momentum.”

“Yeah, it popped off,” adds Tinashe. “It went crazy.”

“I saw the archetypal edit astatine EDC, the small clip,” she continues, “and astatine that constituent we linked up done immoderate communal friends. I was like, ‘Well, this is f–king great’ and conscionable wanted to physique it retired from determination crook it into thing ace impactful.”

At this constituent the brace were moving remotely, with Tinashe going successful the workplace to re-record immoderate of her vocal elements truthful the collab would be, she says, “super crispy and ace caller and fresh.” The duo, some based successful Los Angeles, yet linked IRL to marque photograph and video content. “That was erstwhile the last mentation truly came together,” says Tinashe.

One lone request perceive to this last mentation to get wherefore it undeniably works, but beyond the “catchy arsenic hellhole production” Disco Lines thinks portion of its concealed condiment is that “it tells a story, and we don’t spot that successful physics euphony precise often anymore.” Written by Tinashe, Ricky Reed and Michael Neil, the Quantum Baby mentation of the opus tells the communicative of getting a telephone from your ex, who you swiftly cull due to the fact that he’s broke and you’re amended than that.

“Tinashe did an unthinkable occupation penning it,” says Disco Lines. “You tin consciousness that [group of girls] vigor erstwhile you listen. Everyone has had an ex that’s deed them back, and you’re like, ‘Stop banging my line.’ Everyone tin relate, adjacent maine arsenic a guy. I emotion the lyrics, and I deliberation the penning Tinashe did is conscionable truthful strong...