BTSTU

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"BTSTU"
BTSTU.jpg
Single by Jai Paul
from the album Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
Released21 April 2011
Recorded2007
Studio Home recording (Rayners Lane, London)
Genre
Length3:30
Label XL
Songwriter(s) Jai Paul
Producer(s) Jai Paul
Jai Paul singles chronology
"BTSTU"
(2011)		"Jasmine"
(2012)
Audio video
"BTSTU (Edit)" on YouTube

"BTSTU" is a song by British songwriter and record producer Jai Paul. A demo recording of the song received widespread blog coverage throughout 2010 after having been uploaded to Paul's MySpace page, as well as receiving numerous plays on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. The BBC's Zane Lowe made "BTSTU (Demo)" his Hottest Record in the World. On the strength of this demo, Paul was long-listed for the BBC Sound of 2011 poll. [1]

Contents

Release

An edited version of "BTSTU" entitled "BTSTU (Edit)" was officially released on 21 April 2011, via XL Recordings. [2] The song received airplay again on UK national radio by DJs including Gilles Peterson, Annie Mac, Nick Grimshaw, Reggie Yates, and Fearne Cotton, with Zane Lowe making it his Hottest Record in the World for a second time. [3] Paul commented in 2011 that the name of the track is an acronym for "Back To Save The Universe", a reference to a lyric from the Radiohead song "Airbag". [4]

Critical reception

The single received favourable reviews from the Daily Telegraph [5] and American blog 'The Wounded Jukebox'. [6] Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork compared the single to "the unmistakable lope of one J Dilla". [7]

"BTSTU" was included in the end-of-year lists in 2011 by Pitchfork, [8] The Fader , and Pigeons and Planes. [9] The Washington Post mentioned "BTSTU" in their 'Singles File: Best of 2011', describing it as "a precursor to the entire career of James Blake". [10]

Legacy

The song has been influential on underground as well as mainstream pop music in the 2010s. [11] [12] The song had struck a chord internationally. The Canadian rapper Drake leaked a track titled "Dreams Money Can Buy" which sampled "BTSTU (Demo)" in May 2011, [13] which got resampled by Charli XCX in June 2012. [14] In July 2011 the song was sampled again for Travis Garland and JoJo's duet "Paint", [15] and New York singer-songwriter Niia uploaded a cover version of "BTSTU" to her SoundCloud page. [16] The 2012 song "End of Time" by Beyoncé also sampled the song. [12]

Track listing

Digital download [2] [17]
No.TitleLength
1."BTSTU" (edit)3:30
2019 remastered vinyl [18]
No.TitleLength
1."BTSTU" (edit)3:29
2."BTSTU" (demo)3:41

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company) [19] 139

Release history

VersionDateFormatLabel
Demo2010 Digital download [2] [17] —
Edit21 April 2011 XL
6 June 2011 CD-R
Remastered1 June 2019 12-inch single [20]

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  19. ↑ "CHART: CLUK Update 28.05.2011 (wk20)". zobbel.de. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
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