"You Belong" is the second single from the eponymous debut album

Hercules and Love Affair (album)

Hercules and Love Affair is the debut album by American house group Hercules and Love Affair. The album, which was released by DFA Records in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2008 and a day later in North America, was produced by Andy Butler and Tim Goldsworthy. The album was recorded at the...

 by Hercules and Love Affair

Hercules and Love Affair

Hercules and Love Affair is a musical project from New York based DJ Andy Butler. Members include Andrew Butler, Kim Ann Foxman, Mark Pistel,Aerea Negrot, and Shaun Wright...

. It features Nomi Ruiz

Nomi Ruiz

Nomi Ruiz is an American Nu-disco and Hip hop singer from New York City who is most famous for being among the cast of vocalists that contributed to Hercules and Love Affair's debut album. Ruiz has also collaborated with dance music trio The Ones...

 with backing vocals by Antony Hegarty

Antony Hegarty

Antony Hegarty is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.-Early life:...

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Critical reception

Philip Sherburne of Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...

 commented that "it's the way that Butler and his collaborators mold formalist fidelity into something stranger that makes the track really sing," and that the "chords give it the quality of an exploding rainbow." NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

said that the song "is superb, but it’s essentially just an old Chicago house

Chicago house

Chicago house is a style of house music, a genre of electronic dance music which emerged in Chicago in the mid-1980s. Stylistically, Chicago house has no widely accepted definition, but generally includes the first house music productions by Chicago-based artists throughout the 1980s, and any later...

 tune given a digital spit’n’polish."

Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine

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 placed "You Belong" at #9 on the Top 25 Singles of 2008.

Music video

The music video for "You Belong" features Nomi Ruiz

Nomi Ruiz

Nomi Ruiz is an American Nu-disco and Hip hop singer from New York City who is most famous for being among the cast of vocalists that contributed to Hercules and Love Affair's debut album. Ruiz has also collaborated with dance music trio The Ones...

 singing to the lyrics while several background dancers are voguing

Vogue (dance)

Vogue or voguing is a highly stylized, modern house dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. It gained mainstream exposure when it was featured in Madonna's song and video "Vogue" , and when showcased in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning...

. Andrew Butler appears as a monk who plays with futuristic hand toys while Kim Ann Foxman is seen playing glass harmonicas.

Track listings

• UK CD single

1. "You Belong" - 4:14
2. "I'm Telling You" - 3:44
3. "You Belong (Hercules Club Mix)" - 6:30
4. "You Belong (D's New Rhythm Bounce)" - 8:41

• U.S. CD single

1. "You Belong (Radio Edit)" - 3:46
2. "You Belong (Album Version)" - 4:11
3. "You Belong (D's New Rhythm Bounce)" - 8:40
4. "You Belong (Kevin Saunderson
   Kevin Saunderson
   Kevin Saunderson is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students, Derrick May and Juan Atkins...
   
    Remix)" - 7:17
5. "You Belong (Riton Rerub)" - 4:51
6. "You Belong (Hercules Club Mix)" - 6:28
7. "You Belong (Album Instrumental)" - 4:11

Song usage

"You Belong" was used in the pilot episode of the TV show How to Make It in America

How to Make It in America

How to Make It in America is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on February 14, 2010. The series follows the lives of Ben Epstein and his friend Cam Calderon as they try to succeed in New York City's fashion scene...

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Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak Position
U.S. Dance/Club Play Songs	39