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ASH HALLORAN

I BUILT YOU

Managed her ex's career for four years and is credited on nothing he released

vex on it

after hours

Honest use case: Someone who feels erased or uncredited for their contributions to another's success.

Exhibit: “I have the emails. I am not going to use the emails. Not because I am good. Because using them makes it a story about a bitter woman, and I refuse to be the villain in this too.”

style

  • dark pop R&B
  • trap-influenced drums
  • sparse piano
  • wounded powerhouse female vocal
  • huge accusatory chorus
  • layered harmonies
  • american accent
  • betrayed and commanding
  • american accent
  • betrayed

the numbers

bpm
136
key
A# major
energy
0.68
dance
0.94
valence
0.52
vocal at
8.3s
length
2:35
words
225
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “built” ×13 · “four” ×4 · “years” ×4

shared with the crate: 37 other songs use “car”

lyrics

(I built you)

Four years of calls I made and rooms I got you into
Four years of my name on nothing you ever put out
I introduced you to the man who signed you in a car park
And you thanked your mother and your manager in the speech

And I am not in the story
I have been edited out of my own four years
And everybody who was there says nothing

I built you, I built you
From a boy with a laptop and a very good face
I built you, I built you
And you cannot even say my name in an interview

Somebody asked how we met and you said "around"
Around. Four years. Around.

I built you, I built you
From a boy with a laptop and a very good face
I built you, I built you
And you cannot even say my name in an interview

I have the emails. I am not going to use the emails.
Not because I am good. Because using them makes it a story
about a bitter woman, and I refuse to be the villain in this too.

I built you, I built you
From a boy with a laptop and a very good face
I built you, I built you
And you cannot even say my name in an interview

(around...)
I BUILT YOU — ASH HALLORAN · FERAL