Prisoners and everything else

 Charli XCX’s track House, featuring John Cale, is the first release from her work on the soundtrack for the upcoming Wuthering Heights film adaptation. The song features spoken-word segments by Cale, interwoven with electronic and industrial textures, and its music video presents both artists within a dilapidated house, set amidst motifs of decay and confinement.​

“When I think of Wuthering Heights, I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit,” Charli explained in a press release as to how she and Cale connected after she watched Todd Haynes’s documentary on Cale’s band. (Fran Hoepfner in Vulture)

A central lyric, “I’m a prisoner to live for eternity,” may also invite recognition of Emily Brontë’s poem The Prisoner. 

Charli XCX previously described the music she wrote for the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights as having an “elegant and brutal sound palette,” adding, “It couldn’t be more different from Brat.” Well, she wasn’t lying.  (Dereck  Rossignol  in Uproxxxx)