It’s been 10 years since Icona Pop tore up dance flooring worldwide with their 2012 Charli XCX collaboration “I Love It,” and on Friday (June 3), the duo celebrated the observe with a remix created alongside Swedish producers Osrin and Ellis.
“We’re so pleased with what now we have achieved with ‘I Love It’ over these previous 10 years,” Icona Pop stated in a press assertion. “It’s all the time exhausting to beat that first imaginative and prescient you’ve got for a track, however we needed to take a contemporary take a look at it along with a few of our favourite new producers and produce it nearer to the expertise of Icona Pop dwell in 2022.”
“I Love It,” initially launched on June 14, 2012, spent two weeks within the No. 1 place on the Sizzling Dance/Digital Songs chart and in addition hit No. 7 over on the Sizzling 100. The observe in the end spent 17 weeks on the Sizzling Dance/Digital Songs chart and stays Icona Pop’s highest charting track up to now.
“It seems like we wrote it, in any other case we wouldn’t have recorded it,” Icona Pop’s Aino Jawo stated of the track in a 2012 interview. “At first, it sounded actually completely different, so it’s bizarre how one can simply think about the Icona Pop refrain after which the shouting. We had been like, ‘That is our track.’ And Charli thought this was a enjoyable factor.”
“We took it to [producer] Type Of Eye and instructed him, ‘That is the sensation that we would like on it. We would like the punkiness,” the duo’s Caroline Hjelt continued. “We would like the ‘f-ck it’ feeling. We would like every thing that we felt once we had been singing it.’”
Hearken to Icona Pop’s “I Love It (I Don’t Care 2022 Re-Edit)” that includes Charli XCX beneath.