About ten years ago, I got more irrationally angry about a post than I ever had. You see, that day, Scott Colvin posted about the Icona Pop song, "I Love It (I Don't Care)". That song was essentially Icona Pop singing over top the demo track provided to them by the songwriter, a Ms. Charlotte Emma Aitchison of Cambridge, England.
I was going to post that song the next day. Literally. I had a whole post written that took a different take than Scott did. I was going to be highlighting the extra vocals, which belonged to Ms. Aitchison's. And, it probably would have ended at that - I mean, until the unignorable "Fancy", of course. Then again, I might not have been into that song so much if not for what came next.
Instead, Scott's post got me looking into the other music Ms. Aitchison had made, which at the time, was a simgle album and a bunch of mixtapes. The album, True Romance, was on heavy rotation for me for a couple of years. There were a ton of great singles on that album, and I posted about a lot of them. At last count, there were approximately 18 Charli XCX posts on this blog, which doesn't include the ones on the other one.
Somehow, I missed this one, and it's a good thing I did. You see, "I Love It (I Don't Care)" is one of two songs she wrote on a particular day in 2011, based off beats given to her by producer Patrik Berger. The other was a song called "In The Dark", later titled "Dancing In The Dark". You can still here that early demo version. It still exists.
When it made it onto True Romance in its final form, it was called "You're The One". And, somehow, I never talked about what was one of my favorite songs from that album until today. It's a synth-pop goth love song, and it is a gem.
Today, Charli XCX uses a lot of autotune, reportedly because she doesn't like her voice. She seems to have found her sound.
She's wrong about her voice. Here's a performance of this song with just a piano, some drumsticks, and a river in Austin, TX.
She's wrong about her voice. Here's a performance of this song with just a piano, some drumsticks, and a river in Austin, TX.
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