detonate

"detonate" is a song by Charli XCX from her fourth studio album "how i'm feeling now", and serves as album's fifth track.

“detonate” was first played on Charli’s Instagram Live session on April 10, 2020, also revealing that it was produced by frequent collaborator A. G. Cook. Cook later played a remix of the track in a live set for digital festival Square Garden on April 24th.

"So this was originally a track by A. G. Cook. A couple of weeks before quarantine happened in the US, A. G. and BJ Burton met for the first and only time and worked on this song. It was originally sped up, and they slowed it down. Three or four days after that session, A. G. drove to Montana to be with his girlfriend and her family. So it’s quite interesting that the three of us have been in constant contact over the five weeks we made this album, and they’ve only met once. I wrote the lyrics on a day where I was experiencing a little bit of confusion and frustration about my situation. I maybe wanted some space. It’s actually quite hard for me to listen to this song because I feel like the rest of the album is so joyous and positive and loving. But it encapsulated how I was feeling, and it’s not uncommon in relationships sometimes."

– Charli XCX via Apple Music