"Catch You" is a song by the British recording artist Sophie Ellis-Bextor for her third album,Trip the Light Fantastic (2007). It was written by Cathy Dennis,Rhys Barker and Greg Kurstin and produced by Kurstin. It was released as the album's first single on 19 February 2007. "Catch You" is a pop rock song and talks about Bextor chasing the guy that she wants.
It received mostly positive reviews from music critics,who commended the infusion of rock guitars and electronic beats,while calling it a strident and very good song. A music video was directed by Sophie Muller and it shows Sophie chasing a guy in Venice. The song performed moderately on the charts,reaching number 8 on the UK Singles Chart,peaking inside the top twenty on the Italian and Russian Singles Chart and inside the top fifty on the other countries.
Background and composition
The single was first announced on New Year's Eve 2006,where Ellis-Bextor performed the song on the BBC's "New Year Live" show.[1] "Catch You" was written by Cathy Dennis and co-written by Greg Kurstin and Rhys Barker and produced by Greg Kurstin.[2] It is a pop rock song[3] and combines guitars,zingy keyboards,nu wave angular guitars with a nagging pop melody.[4] The lyrics concern Sophie possibly bugging various parts of her love interest's flat (mailbox,"easy chair",flatscreen),in the hope that she will "catch him".[5]
Critical reception
K. Ross Hoffman of Allmusic commented,"She sounds dramatically reinvigorated here,with a notable infusion of rock guitars and often a forceful,even menacing,electro edge to the productions,evident right out the gate in this strident,barnstorming first single."[6] Nick Levine of Digital Spy called it "a turbo-charged stalker-pop."[7] Emily MacKay of Yahoo! Music called it "a merciless first strike,a crisp,laser-cut,feather-light puff of dance-floor ephemera sprinkled with disco 'pow!'s,its '70s synth-Chinoiserie chorus given an icy aloofness by Sophie's plummy delivery."[8] Stuart Waterman of Popjustice commented:"It is both a very good song and an excellent advertisement for romantic lunacy. It sounds not unlike what would happen if the Sugababes kidnapped Avril Lavigne and bullied her into playing guitar on one of their more 'upbeat' numbers."[5]
Talia Kraines of BBC Music wrote that the song "gave us a grittier Sophie."[9] Stuart McCaighy of This Is Fake DIY gave the song a mixed review,commenting "It was perhaps a touch one-dimensional,too 'of the moment' for a lead single;its chorus dragged rather than ignited."[10] However,Kitty Empire of The Observer expressed:"It's a rubberised stab of bunny-boiler club-pop,which deserved to chart higher than number 8."[11]
The music video was subsequently filmed in Venice by Sophie Muller,and was released on 13 January 2007. The video has been compared to the movie Don't Look Now.[14]
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