Songfacts®:

• "Constant Repeat" is a shimmering, Auto-Tune-streaked pop song from Charli XCX's fifth album, Crash. It's about talking yourself into believing someone doesn't want you, only to realize you were wrong all along.
  
  "This song features an imaginary scenario I created in my head, where I fell for somebody but imagined that they didn't want me, which turned out to not be the case," Charli told Apple Music. "But it was this fear that I had, and my prediction of the situation. I think it's interesting that you can convince yourself of that. When you are falling for someone, unfortunately, I think human nature just crushes in on you and tells you you're not good enough and fills you with doubt and dread and fear and all of those things. This song really poured out of me quite late in the album process, and it just felt so real and natural."
• While Charli framed "Constant Repeat" as an "imaginary scenario" rather than a factual account of a specific rejection, she wrote and recorded the song in 2021, around the same time she became romantically and creatively involved with George Daniel of The 1975. Their relationship didn't go public until May 2022 (two months after Crash was released). Daniel produced several other tracks on the record, including the title track, but not this one.
• Charli wrote the song alongside Noonie Bao and Swedish producer Lotus IV.
  
  Noonie Bao (real name Jonnali Mikaela Parmenius) is a prolific Swedish topline writer who first teamed up with Charli on 2014's Sucker. She has also written for Avicii, Katy Perry, Zara Larsson, and Camila Cabello, among others.
  
  Linus Wiklund, who produces under the name Lotus IV, previously collaborated with Charli on her 2019 Christine and the Queens track "Gone," and critics quickly picked up on the production similarities between that song and "Constant Repeat." In total, Wiklund produced six tracks on Crash.
• Charli first teased "Constant Repeat" alongside other Crash tracks during a TikTok Live in November 2021, months ahead of the album's release. Fans instantly fell for the snippet, nicknaming it "Got Me on Repeat" after its outro hook. Before its official title was confirmed, it was also informally known as "On Repeat" and "Bad Girl."
  
  Even though it was the last song written for the album, Charli called it one of her personal favorites and one of her proudest artistic achievements, telling Vulture it represents "the perfect marriage between my more experimental instincts and very classic pop."
• "Constant Repeat" sits at Track 4 on Crash. The album was conceived as Charli's deliberate, tongue-in-cheek "major label sell-out" record, her fifth and final release under her Atlantic/Asylum contract, trading the hyperpop of Charli and How I'm Feeling Now for glossy 1980s-inspired dance-pop. Much of the album leans into theatrical themes of car wrecks, sex, and self-destruction, but "Constant Repeat" stands out as one of its most vulnerable, emotional highlights.
• In May 2023, American singer-songwriter Kurt Vile released a cover of "Constant Repeat" as an Amazon Music Original to celebrate Charli winning the Ivor Novello Visionary Award. Vile told Uncut magazine that "Constant Repeat" was the song that made him an "overnight fan" after picking up Crash on CD. After playing the album on loop, he got his daughters, Awilda and Delphine, hooked as well. The trio reworked the track into a relaxed, folk-acoustic arrangement with his daughters providing backing vocals. Charli gave the cover her stamp of approval, replying with a simple "thanks" on his Instagram post.