True Romance (Charli XCX album)
True Romance is the debut[4] studio album by English singer Charli XCX. It was released on 12 April 2013 by Asylum and Atlantic Records. Originally scheduled for release in April 2012, the album's release was delayed for a full year and had been in the making since early 2010 when Charli met with producer Ariel Rechtshaid in Los Angeles. To promote the album's release, Charli embarked on a three-date UK promotional tour in April 2013.[4]
True Romance
12 April 2013
2010–2012
47:02
- Joakim Åhlund
- Patrik Berger
- Blood Diamonds
- J£zus Million
- Ariel Rechtshaid
- Dimitri Tikovoi
- Paul White
Background and release[edit]
"You're the One" has been compared to Siouxsie and the Banshees' 1991 song "Kiss Them for Me" and Charli agreed: "At the time, I was listening to a lot of dark pop, so I was inspired by a lot of the deep bass sounds. Sure, Siouxsie is there, too. We just kind of rolled with it."[5] Charli said for Coupdemain Magazine that her preferred song of the album is "What I like": "just because all the lyrics are cute". Also mentioned that "What I like" is "about me unashamedly celebrating having a boyfriend and being in love. It's about being so happy with someone, like they're your partner in crime. It's about not caring about anything else but them."[6]
Charli explained the meaning behind the album's title saying, "Every corner of my own romantic history is explored on this record, so for me, it's very raw, it's very honest, and it's very true."[4] The majority of the album's tracks were previously released on the You're the One EP, and through the Heartbreaks and Earthquakes and Super Ultra mixtapes. The album is named after the Quentin Tarantino-written 1993 film of the same name, which is sampled on "Velvet Dreaming" from the Super Ultra mixtape. On 9 April 2013, the standard edition of album became available to stream on Pitchfork in full.[7]
Commercial performance[edit]
True Romance debuted at number 85 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 1,241 copies in its first week. By February 2015, the album had sold 6,302 copies in the United Kingdom.[20] In the United States, it entered the Heatseekers Albums chart at number five,[21] and fell to number 22 the following week.[22] The album had sold 12,000 copies in the US as of May 2014.[23] True Romance debuted and peaked at number 11 on the ARIA Hitseekers chart in Australia.[24]
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