Take Me Back

Album: Catch 22 (2009)
Charted: 3
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the fourth single release for East Londoner Tinchy Stryder, who is known as "The Prince of Grime."
  • The song features the British R&B singer and producer Taio Cruz, who also wrote and produced the track. Tinchy Stryder explained to Digital Spy how he hooked up with Cruz: "I met him a while ago when we were both doing a PA in Brighton. We started talking backstage and got on really well. Then I bumped into him again a few months later in a recording studio and we went from there. He's a great songwriter and we were on the same wavelength, just bouncing ideas off each other. That's how the song came about."
  • Stryder told Digital Spy that this song is "about relationship problems. In a lot of relationships people do something wrong with their girl or the other way round. You have to admit to it and ask them to take you back. I think many people will be able to relate to this because there's a lot of cheating going on in our world!"
  • Cruz told the story of the song in publicity materials: "Fraser (T. Smith, Taio's long time collaborator) had a beat and Tinchy Stryder had the lyrics and he was talking about how he'd cheated on his girl and he was sorry and I thought it would be cute to put 'Take Me Back' into the chorus."
  • Cruz recorded a slightly different version for his 2009 album, Rokstarr. The British R&B singer also recorded a full solo of the song without Tinchy for the US re-release of Rokstarr.

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