Crave You Explained

Crave You
Cover:	Flight Facilities featuring Giselle - Crave You.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Flight Facilities featuring Giselle
Album:	Down to Earth
Recorded:	2009, Sydney, Australia
Genre:	Electronic pop
Length:	3:55
Label:	BG12" FF Future Classic
Producer:	Hugo Gruzman James Lyell
Chronology:	Flight Facilities
Next Title:	Foreign Language
Next Year:	2011

"Crave You" is a song written by Australian singer-songwriter Giselle Rosselli for DJ electronic producers Hugo Gruzman & James Lyell of Flight Facilities.^[1] 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 Kylie Minogue was also featured on the album.

In 2023 an interpolation of the main melody and lyrics was used in the song "Other Boys" by Dove Cameron and Marshmello.

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."^[2]

Composition

The song was composed using common time in the key of C sharp minor, with a tempo of 120 beats per minute.The song is often described as Indie pop, Nu-disco and Indietronica.

Reception

The song polled at number 19 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2010.^[3] It also came in at #39 in the Hottest 100 of the Decade.^[4]

In 2015, the song was listed at number 24 in In the Mix's '100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time'.^[5]

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

• Giselle Rosselli – composer, lyricist, featured performer
• Hugo Gruzman – sample production, drum tracking sample
• James Lyell – sample production, drum tracking

Track listings

Digital download^[6]

1. "Crave You" – 3:55

Remixes digital download^[7]

1. "Crave You" (Version 2) – 7:33
2. "Crave You" (James Curd Pretty Mix) – 4:02
3. "Crave You" (An-2 Remix) – 7:48
4. "Crave You" (The C-90s Remix) – 7:29
5. "Crave You" (Cassian Remix) – 5:38
6. "Crave You" (Graz Remix) – 4:31
7. "Crave You" (Ted & Francis Dub) – 4:18
8. "Crave You" (Adventure Club Remix) – 3:56

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ready to take off . 34th Street Magazine . 10 February 2010 . 10 September 2019.
2. Web site: Ready to take off . 34th Street Magazine . 10 February 2010 . 10 September 2019.
3. Web site: Crave You on Triple J's Hottest 100 Single. . 26 January 2011 . 1 January 2017.
4. Web site: Hottest 100 of the Decade – Triple J . Triple J . 14 March 2020 . 21 April 2020.
5. Web site: The 100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20151216224732/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24303/20151216-0715/inthemix.junkee.com/the-100-greatest-australian-dance-tracks-of-all-time/27904.html. dead. 2015-12-16. 2015. 22 March 2019.
6. Web site: Crave You. iTunes. 1 January 2017.
7. Web site: Crave You (Remixes). 26 March 2010 . iTunes. 1 January 2017.