Dirty Laundry (Bitter:Sweet song)

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"Dirty Laundry"
Song by Bitter:Sweet
from the album The Mating Game
ReleasedApril 4, 2006 (2006-04-04)
Genre
Length3:20 [1]
Label Quango
Songwriter(s) Charles Aznavour, Shana Halligan, Michael Railton, Kiran Shahani

"Dirty Laundry" is a song by Bitter:Sweet, [2] [3] the electronic/trip hop, with jazz-like qualities, duo Shana Halligan and Kiran Shahani from Los Angeles (from their first album The Mating Game 2006, on the Quango label).

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Composition

The song features a horn section sample that derives from the song "Parce Que Tu Crois" by Charles Aznavour.

Use in media

The song was chosen for pre-installation on the first model of Microsoft's Zune MP3 player in November 2006 and has been used since in:

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