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What song is Tom Listening To?Jan 2

Tom is now listening to Never Been in Love (feat. Icona Pop)
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JvD469hg7VQu2qobOAnuy

#CobraStarship #IconaPop

Hardgrüv Dec 14

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O2bdXRURbQo

#iconapop vs #alicedeejay

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Icona Pop Vs Alice Deejay - mashup by Hardgrüv

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Boomerissimo.it Jul 22, 2025

Raffaella Carrà ha rischiato che le facessero la festa

#boomerissimo #raffaellacarra #iconapop #lacarrà #raffaellaforever

https://boomerissimo.it/2023/12/16/raffaella-carra-e-quella-volta-che-volevano-farle-la-fiesta/

Raffaella Carrà e quella volta che volevano farle la “Fiesta” - Boomerissimo

Anche i più amati personaggi non sono esenti da critiche, ma qui si è sfiorato il dramma

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The Delete Bin May 12, 2025

Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX Play “I Love It”

Listen to this track by Swedish synthpop duo in collaboration with British pop singer-songwriter Charli XCX. It’s “I Love It”, a nose-thumbing, in your face pop missive as taken from the duo’s 2013 record, the very accurately titled This is … Icona Pop. Charli XCX (born Charlotte Emma Aitchison) became involved with the duo’s recording of the song after she wrote it based on a beat sent to her by Patrik Berger the group’s producer. From that, she took it and fashioned it into a hit.

At the time Charli XCX was developing her craft as a songwriter and recording her own material. She suspected that “I Love It” would be a hit song. But it didn’t strike her as being in line with the sound she wanted for herself on her own record. Berger suggested that Icona Pop’s sound with Charli XCX herself singing lead would make for a compelling combination and a hit song. The result is a kind of bratty electro-punk sound as mingled with a dance pop feel that sounded great on the radio in the early 2010s.

Chart-wise, its unique sound and feel resulted in glowing reviews across the music journalism spectrum from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork. It performed just as well commercially, going five-times platinum in the United States, scoring a number one in the UK, and garnering 4.3 million downloads. As for remixes, there are far too many to count them here. Not bad for a song that had its humble origins as a simple beat until Charli XCX got a hold of it and made it into an anthem.

As much as “I Love It” is a storming floor-filler designed to be shouted along to in unison by club crowds, it turns out to be a kind of story song at the same time. The narrative is more implied than literally told with the conflict at the heart of it between an older (and absent) man and his much younger paramour. But its tale is a powerful one that has roots in older pop traditions.

This is a classic pop I’m not going to take your crap anymore song, crashing cars into bridges, watching it burn, not caring, and in fact loving every second of it. In its way, “I Love it” is a 21st Century update to Joni Mitchell’s “The Hissing of Summer Lawns”, another song about a woman left alone among the possessions of her successful and absent male counterpart. Otherwise, it’s a break-up song with an associated series of insurance claims.

The motivations depicted in this tune are blurry, perhaps. Is the narrator an unhinged and spiteful user, throwing some poor older guy’s shit into a bag and throwing it down the stairs? Is she just entitled, bored, and looking for a thrill? Or, is that same narrator finally taking charge of her own destiny by symbolically destroying his possessions to show she is no longer among them?

It may depend on your point of view as informed by your understanding of how imbalanced power dynamics between genders and generations may or may not play into relationships. The hints were there as this tune was best understood as a Girl Power anthem for its times.

Charli XCX at Tramlines Festival 2012. image: Anna Hanks (cropped).

And that’s another possible interpretation of this song; that younger generations by the 2010s were becoming increasingly aware of how thin their slice of the economic and political pie was by then. Was this song written as a political parable in light of that? Doubtful, maybe. Yet the hallmarks of that can be easily overlaid onto it to lend it that angle. The phrase OK Boomer would not be in common usage by 2013. But it was certainly well on its way in terms of feeling and sentiment.

The pervasive sense was (and is) that the older generation’s distinct lack of personal ownership of where society was headed means that younger generations are stuck with a hefty bill to pay for a sustainable future. This was fast becoming was a source of great frustration. One might understand why crashing the car belonging to an older lover might feel so cathartic for a lot of people even if it’s only in a song. It’s pure catharsis.

Whether or not that overtly applies to this song or not, what “I Love It” accomplishes as a pure pop experience is that it deftly mixes anger with a huge sense of fun. To repeat a very important point about this song, it invites and even demands that listeners sing along very, very loudly, particularly during the chorus. But there’s another point – the whole song feels like a chorus, every part of it sounding like one big joyous, liberated, and only slightly petulant statement made to be belted out by everyone who hears it.

On a narrative level, its easy to imagine it as a manifestation of a Dear John note that the older man finds upon his return home, finding that his young trophy girlfriend has absconded, and with only property damage as evidence that she ever lived there. Spiteful, maybe. But once again; the song is still fun despite all that, maybe because it’s both liberating and petulant all at the same time. As far as lyrical intentions go that combine anger and liberation, it doesn’t get much more punk rock than that.

Both Icona Pop and Charli XCX are active artists today. Catch up to the duo at iconapop.com. And get the skinny on Charli XCX at charlixcx.com.

Also, check out this article about “I Love It” and Charli XCX. In it, the artist talks about one of the reasons she didn’t record it under her own name. Experiencing music visually in a form of synaesthesia, the colours between this song and others she’d written for her own record didn’t match.

Enjoy!

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