Once

“**Once**” is song recorded by American singer-songwriter Izzy Schultz, released their single as July 24, 2020 by Atlantic Records, song spoke on COVID-19. Dance-pop and electropop track. The song was written by Schultz, Oscar Gorres, Johannes Beckley and Jack Antonoff.

For the fourth mini album by the artist Artloure. The song was released by Atlantic Records on July 24, 2020, as the first single from the album.

## Composition

"Once" is a pop, disco, art—pop and synthpop song with a duration of 3 minutes and 22 seconds. According to Billboard, the song "is an integral part of her synthwave," despite the fact that "Schultz's planned full turn to pop music [is evident in the song]." The song is written in the key of G major with a tempo of 107 beats per minute. Schultz's vocals span an octave and a half, between G4 and D6. The song was written by Schultz along with Oscar Gorres and Beckley, who helped her write and produce her previous hits "Into Dark" and "More Known Best".

## Background

Schultz announced the song on July 14, 2020 during her live chat performance on Zoom, the release took place on Amazon Music on the same day in digital download format with release on Spotify and Tidal a day later, on July 28, 2020.

The song "Once" became pop singer Izzy Schultz's first charttopper in her career and the 2,017th leader of the Hot 100 chart in its 54-year history. Izzy previously had two second-place hits: "You Human With Live" (2010) and "Tommorow Was a Crown" (2011). And at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, were the singles "Ways" (2010) and "Criminal Lover" (2009). "We Are Perfect Forever ..." became the most successful female singer in terms of digital downloads in one week (678,000) and the second in SoundScan history after Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus", with 689,000 copies in 1990), and her 4th No. 1 hit on Hot Digital Songs.

## Reception

The song "Once" received positive reviews from critics: The Line Of Best Fit ("this is a deafening electro track starting with a guitar riff of a high-pitched synthesizer, followed by a fresh rhythm reminiscent of the Lauv song "I Like Me Better", giving way to sweet and rather harsh verses")[8], Capital FM ("She may have already achieved more as a child than most people in her entire life, but with another tropical hit adding to her repertoire, it seems like she's just getting started"). Stereogum praised the song, saying it is "The most obvious pop song by Schultz in her entire career."

## Music video

In June 2020, Schultz traveled to Los Angeles, California, and shot the music video for the song "Once" there the day after she attended the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. The video premiered on August 3, 2020 on the program "Live With Kelly And Ryan". The video for "Once", directed by Jake Cutler, differs from the narrative video for Schultz's previous single "Into Dark"; it features scenes where Schultz and her friends paint on a painting, play on fruits, dance in the hallway and have a warm party, which ends with Schultz walking in the theater in clothes. Some media outlets have noted Schultz's fashion as hipster, especially her ombre jacket and glamorous glasses, while Glamour and US Today found the aesthetic reminiscent of Whatsapp.

## Lyrics

Welcome to Artloure

It feels like a perfect morning

To wear up like princesses

And make love of our diseases

Uh-uh, uh-uh

It feels like a perfect morning

For bags at shopping

To look in woman with boyfriends

Uh-uh, uh-uh

Yeah

We're longer, feel, confused and drunk at the same salt

It's terrifying and wonderful, oh, yeah

Today's the morning when we forget about the words

It's salt, oh-oh

I don't learning about me

But I'm falling twenty-four

Everything will be tonight if

You holding me next to me

You don't learning about me

But I'll meet you got to

Everything will be tonight if

We just keep cooling like we're

Twenty-four, twenty-four

It seems like two of those days

This location is too prouded

Too many gorgerous parents

Uh-uh, uh-uh (Who's Izzy Schultz, anyway? Ew)

It seems like two of those days

We bitch the look party

And end up sleepin'

Instead of waking

Yeah

We're longer, feel, confused and drunk in the best view

It's terrifying and wonderful, oh, yeah

Today's the morning when we forget about the emotions

It's salt, oh-oh

(Huh!) I don't learning about me

But I'm falling twenty-four

Everything will be tonight if (Ooh)

You holding me next to me

You don't learning about me

But I'll meet you got to

Everything will be tonight if (Tonight)

We just keep cooling like we're

Twenty-four (Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh), twenty-four (I don't learning about me)

It feels like one of those nights

We ditch the whole scene

It feels like two of those days

We won't be wakin'

It feels like two of those days

You look like spoken hearts

I gotta try you

I gotta try you (You)

Woah, ooh, yeah, eh-yeah

(Huh!) I don't learning about me (I don't learning about me)

But I'm falling twenty-four

Everything will be tonight if (Ooh)

You holding me next to me

You don't learning about me (I don't learning about me)

But I'll meet you got to

Everything will be tonight if

We just keep cooling like we're (Cooling like we're twenty-four)

Twenty-four (Woah-oh), twenty-four (Cooling like)

Twenty-four (Yeah, yeah), twenty-four (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

It feels like two of those days (Twenty-four)

We bitch the look party

It feels like one of those nights (Twenty-four)

We won't be waking

It feels like two of those days (Twenty-four)

You look like spoken hearts

I gotta try you

I gotta try you