Backseat

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A. G. Cook

## Audio

“**Backseat**” is the opening track off Charli XCX's mixtape *Pop 2*, and Charli’s first collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen.

## Background

Charli said in an interview for Vulture that the idea for a collaboration started when Lorde posted a tweet with a photo of her, Charli and Carly which made a lot of fans ask for it. *"Then we got drunk and spoke about all these ideas we had about making a whole album together. One day, she was in the studio with my friend Justin Raisen, and I went down there. They had been partying and we were just gonna have a jam session, but she’s really fun as a person, and she has so many ideas and is a really creative and wonderful songwriter. So when I did this mixtape, I hit her up, saying, “Is this the time?” And she said yes, so I sent her the song [“Backseat”] and she was into it, wrote her verse, came back to me, and I loved it."* – said XCX.

## Theme

This song shares the theme of drowning thoughts and pain in noise and sound with the mixtape’s ninth track, the MØ featuring “Porsche.”

Initially, she describes being a relationship for a lengthy amount of time because there is a lack of direction. Not sure of what she wants, the relationship lasted for quite a bit (year and a half), but deep down ultimately knows that there is nothing left that she wants from this.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1: Charli XCX]

I can't escape all the voices, and so, I turn it up

I go to parties with strangers, so I can figure it out

Run through a city at midnight to feel like a star

I want it all, even if it's fake

[Pre-Chorus: Charli XCX]

Breakin' your heart, split it in half

Told you it all (told you it all)

Year and a half, are we in love?

I'll never know (I'll never know)

I know I'm wrong, what a mistake

I'll never change (I'll never change)

I can't escape all the voices, and so, I turn it up

[Chorus: Charli XCX]

In the backseat

Your song, so loud

Drivin' so fast

I'm better off alone

[Post-Chorus: Charli XCX]

All alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

[Verse 2: Carly Rae Jepsen]

I'm wide awake, lyin' next to him, and feel it all

I got a thirst for distraction that I can't take back

My fingers run through his hair

I'm grippin' at regrets

I put my mouth on his lips to taste

[Pre-Chorus: Carly Rae Jepsen]

Breakin' your heart, split it in half

Told you it all (told you it all)

Year and a half, are we in love?

I'll never know (I'll never know)

All that went wrong, what a mistake

I'll never change (I'll never change)

I can't escape all the voices, and so I turn it up

[Chorus: Carly Rae Jepsen]

In the backseat

Your song, so loud

Drivin' so fast

I'm better off alone

[Post-Chorus: Charli XCX & Carly Rae Jepsen]

All alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

[Bridge: Carly Rae Jepsen]

'Wake lyin' next

I'm wide awake lyin' next

I'm wide awake lyin' next

I'm wide awake lyin' next

Take back, I gotta take back

I gotta take back, I gotta take back, I gotta

(In the)

My fingers run through his hair

My fingers run through his hair

(You're so)

My fingers run through his hair

My fingers run through his hair

(Drivin') In the (in the)

I gotta take back

All alone, all alone, all alone

[Breakdown: Charli XCX & Carly Rae Jepsen]

All alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone

All alone, all alone, all alone

[Outro: Charli XCX]

It's Charli, baby

It's Charli, baby

## References

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1. ↑ https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/818692912078848000
2. ↑ https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/charli-xcx-isnt-sure-shell-release-another-album.html