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The song spent 2 weeks at number 1 on the Belgian Ultratop Chart, 7 weeks at number 1 on the Dutch Top 40 Chart and 15 weeks at number 1 on the French Download Chart. The song peaked at number 4 in the Spanish download chart. In Spain, the song received double platinum certification for more than 40,000 downloads. The song debuted at number 12 in the week ending 30 June 2007 in the Billboard European Hot 100, jumping to number 8 the following week, to number 4 in its third week, and to number 2 in its fourth week, despite not being released in some European countries such as the United Kingdom. While commenting about his voice, John Murphy from musicOMH wrote that "He has an unfeasibly high falsetto, which works on the Pet Shop Boys-like electro pop track." Graham Griffith from wrote that the song "channels the flawless electropop of the Scissor Sisters without being completely unoriginal." Heather Phares from Allmusic agreed, writing that "it is in the same vein of hypnotic, danceable melancholy as the Scissor Sisters' reworking of ' Comfortably Numb', albeit less showy." Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine wrote a positive review, saying that "Mika fares best when he straddles the fence, as he does on the thumping hodgepodge 'Relax'." Dom Passantino wrote a more negative review for Stylus Magazine, saying that "Songs like 'Relax, Take It Easy' seem to be an attempt at simulating the effect that Supertramp chloroforming you in your sleep would produce." Commercial performance Beth Johnson from Entertainment Weekly wrote that the song is "a Bee Gees-ish shout-out to Frankie Goes to Hollywood." Craig McLean from The Guardian somewhat echoed Griffith review, writing that the song "become the best song the Bee Gees never wrote." Christian John Mikane from PopMatters wrote that "the song is among the better songs on the album." He described the music as "gloriously synthetic, but the confidence in Mika's voice more than compensates for the artificiality of the music." The song received positive reviews from music critics.
The song is an upbeat pop track with a disco-like bassline and a funky guitar riff in the background on the choruses, where he sings: "It's as if I'm scared/It's as if I'm terrified/It's as if I scared/It's as if I'm playing with fire". It uses the melody from " (I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight" by the Cutting Crew. Once home, he wrote the song in twenty minutes. He walked home and, still frightened, started singing. Outside there were police all around: it was 7 July 2005 London bombings. As lights came on again, passengers were told to leave the train. The lights went out, reminding him of his childhood fears. Many years later, he was aboard a Tube train travelling to a recording studio when the train suddenly stopped.
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In a 2017 episode of his show Stasera Casa Mika on the Italian TV channel Rai 2, Mika described that as a child he was scared of the London Underground, before becoming used to the noise and crowds as he grew up. So it was one of the harder tracks for me to produce, but also the most rewarding." The organic-ness gives a more classic field to it.
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It's really effective – you can't tell if it's a full dance track or really laid-back. And we picked up the strangest pedal combinations to get all these weird sounds. We used some great session musicians who had worked with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. So when I came into producing 'Relax' I made sure that most of the sounds we used were actually made by real instruments. "I always wanted to write a dance song that wasn't a really full dance track, that felt organic. Mika described the story behind the song in an interview with the Sun Newspaper, on 2 February 2007:
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