"Crave You" is a song written Australian electronic music production duo

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featuring Australian singer-songwriter

Giselle Rosselli Giselle Rosselli (born December 4, 1990) is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, sometimes seen mononymously as Giselle. Rosselli provided lead vocals and wrote lyrics for the first original song "Crave You" by in ...

. The breakout track was released as their debut single in September 2010 and subsequently featured on the band's debut studio album, '' Down to Earth'' (2014). An acapella reprise featuring Australian recording artist

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was also featured on the album. In 2023 an

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of the main melody and lyrics was used in the song " Other Boys" by

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Background

After a chance meeting of the songwriter and the DJ duo, who were still performing locally as "Hugo & Jimmy" and looking to release original works, the pair sent Giselle an instrumental track. Rosselli describes in a joint interview with Hugo and James, "I had thought up the main line of the song, ''“Why can’t you want me like the other boys do, they stare at me while I stare at you,” '' and had scribbled it down. It so followed that when the guys sent me one of their new loops they had been working on, the lyric happened to fit perfectly to the mood of the track and the melody just followed suit."

Composition

The song was composed using common time in the key of C sharp minor, with a

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of 120

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. The song is often described as

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and

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Reception

The song polled at number 19 on

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's Hottest 100 of 2010. It also came in at #39 in the Hottest 100 of the Decade. In 2015, the song was listed at number 24 in In the Mix's '100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time'.

Music video

A music video was released on YouTube on 10 September 2010. It depicts the paralleled perspective of two young people whose individual experiences are interchanged in the final moments.

Credits and personnel

– composer, lyricist, featured performer * Hugo Gruzman – sample production, drum tracking sample * James Lyell – sample production, drum tracking

Track listings

Digital download # "Crave You" – 3:55 Remixes digital download # "Crave You" (Version 2) – 7:33 # "Crave You" (James Curd Pretty Mix) – 4:02 # "Crave You" (An-2 Remix) – 7:48 # "Crave You" (The C-90s Remix) – 7:29 # "Crave You" (Cassian Remix) – 5:38 # "Crave You" (Graz Remix) – 4:31 # "Crave You" (Ted & Francis Dub) – 4:18 # "Crave You" (Adventure Club Remix) – 3:56 10th Anniversary Edition *A1 "Crave You" *A2 "Crave You" (Version 2) *B1 "Crave You" (The C90s Remix) *B2 "Crave You" (AN-2 Remix)

Certifications

References

2010 songs 2010 debut singles Flight Facilities songs Songs written by Giselle Rosselli {{2010s-pop-song-stub