CollXtion II

## ***CollXtion II***Studio album by Allie X

### Producer(s)

Mike Wise • Allie X • Jordan Palmer • Billboard • J Gramm • Cirkut • Chris Braide

Singles| 1. "Paper Love"April 28, 2017
2. "Need You"May 26, 2017
3. "That's So Us"June 14, 2017
4. "Casanova"November 3, 2017

**CollXtion II** is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Allie X, released on 9 June 2017 and is a follow-up to her first LP, *CollXtion I*. The physical version of *CollXtion II* is only available on Allie X's website.

## Background

During a Q/A on Tumblr, Allie stated that the overall theme for *CollXtion II* would be longing and being lost.

Allie also confirmed, through Twitter, that Never Enough would not be included on *CollXtion II* *,* but a new track, entitled Alexandra, would be instead. However, neither tracks made the final tracklist despite being teased throughout the Unsolved era.

Before the announcement of the release date, Allie X opened a *CollXtion II* hotline, which would play snippets of certain songs on the album to anyone who called. The first snippet played was "Paper Love", followed by "Need You", "True Love is Violent" and "Simon Says".

During an #XmeAnything Q&A on Twitter on February 25, 2017, X stated that if the fans disapprove enough of the final track listing that it could be changed.

"Paper Love" was the album's first single, and in turn the lead single, which was released digitally on 28 April 2017. Avery Stone from Noisey gave the track a favorable review, describing Allie X as "sugary-voiced", saying she doesn't "dwell on it". "Instead, the track surges forward with a whistling hook over a slinky, swaggering guitar riff—and you want more. The song echoes the situation—you're right back where you started."

"Need You" was released as the second single from the album on 26 May 2017. The song includes the guest collaboration of Michigan-based band Valley Girl. It was launched as instant grat with the pre-order of the album on May 26th.

Although not a single, the finalized version of "Casanova" was packaged together with pre-orders of the album, which began on 23 February 2017 and was widely misreported as the album's lead single.

On October 30th, Allie X collaberated with Canadian singer Arkells on a cover of Zedd and Alessia Cara's "Stay".

## Cut Songs

* "Alexandra"
* "All the Rage"
* "A Night Like this¨
* "All I Want Is to Be With You"
* "Better"
* "Blindspot"
* "Cure"
* "Debut"
* "Double Dutch"
* "For Real"
* "Glow"
* "Happy Tears"
* "High Horse"
* "I Don't Wanna Fall in Love"
* "I Don't Wanna Listen To My Heart"
* "Kill Me Now"
* "Let It Die"
* "Lifeline"
* "Make Me Go (Da Da Da)"
* "Misbelieving"
* "Offering" (Downtown's Demo)
* "Oh My God"
* "Paradise"
* "Permanent Marker"
* "Petals"
* "Portal"
* "Purge"
* "R3B0RN"
* "Savior"
* "Shadow"
* "Sorry"
* "Stranger"
* "That Light"
* "The Worst"
* "Thief"
* "To Better Times"
* "Too Much to Dream"
* "Ugly"
* "Work Us Out"

## Trivia

* "Downtown" is the longest song on this album, lasting 3 minutes and 57 seconds
* "Lifted" is the shortest song on this album, lasting 3 minutes and 14 seconds
* Of all the songs in this album, none of them lasts longer than 4 minutes and shorter than 3 minutes
* "Need You" (featuring Valley Girl) is the only collaboration on this album. "Casanova" (featuring VÉRITE) is also a collaboration from this album but was released as a single and not included on the album's tracklist.
* "Too Much To Dream" was originally intended to be included on this album. However, it has been replaced by "That's So Us" because fans voted more for the latter than the former. The same thing happened with "Purge" and "Casanova".
* "That's So Us" is Allie's least favorite released song (out of the songs in this album and her entire discography)
* "Paper Love" and "Casanova" are the only two songs on this album that have their own released music videos. "That's So Us" also has its own music video but it's currently unreleased.
* This album is Allie X's debut album and it has 10 songs on it. Interestingly, X is the Greek number of 10.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/alliex/status/664834453294878720?lang=en
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200224173848/https://old.reddit.com/r/popheads/comments/ebzu4f/im\_back\_im\_allie\_x\_and\_youre\_invited\_to\_cape\_god/