February 2017

## **February 2017**Promotional single by Charli XCX

### Songwriter(s)

Charlotte Aitchison • Katherine Yaeji Lee • Claire Cottrill • Charles Teiller • Caroline Beatrix Maurin • Alexandre Teiller

## Music video

**"February 2017"**is a song by Charli XCX featuring Clairo and Yaeji. It is the fourteenth track on Charli and was released as a promotional single on the 6th of September, 1 week before the album's release. The song is produced by A. G. Cook and Planet 1999.

## Background

Charli made multiple songs with Clairo for Charli through four days on Los Angeles, one of these songs were February 2017, originally without Yaeji. According to Charli, they were both huge Yaeji fans before they collaborated, and Clairo and her already vaguely knew each other, so Charli created a group chat. All of the three artists had they part ready for the song but it was everything into pieces, so they had to put it all together for a song. The song was announced to be on the album on June 13th, 2019.

The single cover was shoot on May 30th, 2019, on the same night she performed at Primavera Sound Festival, along Clairo and Yaeji. On September 5th, she announced that the song is going to be released the next day.

## Theme

This song is about Charli's former boyfriend Huck Kwong. She's apologising in the song for the things she did to him that happened in February 2017, probably more specifically on the night of the Grammy's that she assisted to. However, it is unknown what did she actually do that night.

## Lyrics

[Intro: Charli XCX]

Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah

[Verse: Charli XCX & Clairo]

Know I keep on saying I'm alright

But every single night

When I cut off the lights

I feel like crying

Your picture revolving in my mind

But then it turns to white

I guess I'll go in blind

I feel like crying

Hope you can forgive all of my crimes

You read, but won't reply

I just need your reply

I feel like crying

Baby, all I need's a single night

A sign, a sign, give me a sign

[Pre-Chorus: Charli XCX]

Sorry I broke you down

Sorry I tore your heart

I ripped it all apart

Your headlights in the dark

Sorry 'bout Grammy night

Was flyin' out my mind

Was in a different place

Tortured and drifting by

Kept dancing in that house

The windows turned to black

My windows turned to black

My eyes were rolling back, yeah

Hope I get one more chance

Hope I get one more call

I only know what's good once I have lost it all

Lost it all, lost it all, lost it all

Lost it all, lost it all, lost it all

[Chorus: Charli XCX]

Hope you can forgive the things I've done

(Things I've done, things I've done)

Hope you can forgive the things I've done

(Things I've done, things I've done)

Hope you can forgive the things I've done

(Things I've done, things I've done)

Hope you can forgive the things I've done

(Things I've done, things I've done)

Reply, reply, give me a sign

Yeah

[Outro: Yaeji]

소-소-소심했던 나의

그 한 마디

미안하다고

사과하고 싶어도

너무 늦은 걸까?

## Trivia

* This and "Dream Glow" are the only Charli songs to contain Korean lyrics.
* This is the shortest song on *Charli*.
* Yaeji's verse translates to "*That one word I said so timidly, Isn’t it too late to want to apologize for saying that I’m sorry?*"

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzF0mBIevzE&t=1163s
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1170356472385089536
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1169715399551856646