Norwegian pop singer Annie broke up with Island Records before Christmas, and she won the rights to her long-in-limbo second album Don’t Stop in the settlement. She’ll put a reworked version of that record out herself sometime in the near future, and the chilly lament “My Anthonio” is the first new track to surface from it; it’s a glittering, accusatory track about a one-night stand that had some unintended consequences. Two other cuts from the Don’t Stop sessions—including her version of Stacey Q‘s “Two Of Hearts”—after the jump.
“I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me”:
“Two Of Hearts”:
And just for good measure, here’s the original track as featured on a post-Eastland episode of The Facts Of Life:
Annie – Anthonio [YouTube via Poster Girl]
Annie – I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me [New] [Dailymotion]
Annie – Two Of Hearts [YouTube]
Stacey Q – Two Of Hearts on The Facts Of Life [YouTube]
Annie [MySpace]
ooh, that’s the episode where stacey q runs off with george clooney, isn’t it?
“Two Of Hearts” will always be permanently associated with an early-90s moment of oddity in my life, where a woman called into Bubba The Love Sponge’s radio show in Tampa and requested that he play that song as she was sitting in her car committing suicide from carbon-monoxide poisoning. They managed to find her before she died.
So yeah, weird. But Annie’s version is pretty great! More Richard X in the pop world, please.
Hope for her sake it’s VERY reworked. Island sat on that record for a very good reason.
@maxameleon: Yeah, what about that “Loco” nonsense? Can’t believe it came from the same artist that gave us “Heartbeat” and “Me plus one” just 3 years before.
Loco was actually really good.
THIS SUCKS OUT LOUD, though.
@brasstax: are you joking? i loved the annie/xenomania derivative girls aloud tracks- “sweet” and “my love is better” especially- but this literally shits all over them. this is the annie with whom everyone became enamored in 2004.
@maxameleon: it wasn’t that bad. poorly sequenced, a lead single with no chance of appealing to anyone but her existing fanbase, and two absolutely dire tracks (“heaven & hell” and “what do you want”) made it an iffy proposition, and a guaranteed commercial failure, but there are a lot of strong songs there.
i’d just like to say that the punchline is the best thing in the world- a better punchline than rilo kiley’s “does he love you?”, which i thought would be hard to top, but here we are.