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{{Infobox song

| name = 1999

| type = single

| cover = CharliXCXTroyeSivan1999.png

| artist = Charli XCX and Troye Sivan

| album = Charli

| released =

| studio = * Henson Studios (Los Angeles)

* Wolf Cousins Studios (Stockholm)

* MXM Studios (Los Angeles)

| genre = * Eurodance

* electropop

| length =

| label = * Asylum

* Atlantic UK

| writer = * Charlotte Aitchison

* Noonie Bao

* Oscar Holter

* Troye Sivan

* Brett McLaughlin

| producer = Oscar Holter

| chronology = Charli XCX

| prev_title = Girls Night Out

| prev_year = 2018

| next_title = Blame It on Your Love

| next_year = 2019

| misc =

}}

"'1999'" is a song by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX and Australian singer Troye Sivan, released as the lead single from the former's third studio album 'Charli' on 5 October 2018. The single cover was inspired by the 1999 film 'The Matrix'. It follows several singles released earlier in 2018 by Charli XCX and Sivan's 2018 album 'Bloom'. The track reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart dated 22 November 2018, becoming Charli XCX's tenth top 40 single and first top 15 single since 2015, as well as Sivan's fourth top 40 single and his first top 20 single.

A sequel to the track, "2099", was released as a promotional single in September 2019.

"1999" is playable in 'Just Dance Unlimited' on 'Just Dance 2020'.

Background and composition



Background

The song contains nostalgic lyrical references to the titular year along with a snare-heavy beat, "fuzzy sawtooth bass and sparking Eurodance keys". Sasha Geffen of 'Pitchfork' stated that the track is "more concerned with the act of remembering than with the specifics of the year it calls up itself" and "fits alongside the rest of Charli XCX's sleek, forward-looking pop songs". The song also references Britney Spears' 1998 debut single, "...Baby One More Time".

Musical composition

The song is written in the key of B minor, with an allegro tempo of 124 BPM in common time. Sivan's and Charli XCX's voices span between the notes B3 and F#5.

Artwork



The cover art references the 1999 film 'The Matrix', with Sivan dressed as Neo, wearing dark sunglasses, a black overcoat, and dyed black hair against a bright green background. Charli XCX, who is dressed as Trinity, flanks him. 'Billboard' also noted its similarity to Aaliyah in the music video for her 2000 song "Try Again".

Promotion



Charli XCX and Sivan tweeted lyrics from "1999" addressed to each other on Twitter before both shared the cover art and title of the song.

Music video



The music video was released on 11 October 2018, and features Sivan and Charli XCX in various homages to 1990s pop culture, including the iMac G3 and Steve Jobs, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake,' Spice Girls,' New Radicals, Eminem, the Nokia 3310, Rose McGowan and Marilyn Manson, the films 'Titanic', 'The Matrix', 'American Beauty', and 'The Blair Witch Project', the Dancing baby, the video game 'The Sims', and the music videos for the songs "Say You'll Be There", "Waterfalls", "Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy)", and "I Want It That Way". For many of the homages in the music video the deepfake technology was used.

Track listing



'Digital download'

#"1999" 3:09

'Digital download Stripped version'

#"1999" (Stripped) 3:21

'Digital download The Knocks Remix'

#"1999" (The Knocks Remix) 3:41

'Digital download Remixes'

#"1999" (Alphalove remix) 3:55

#"1999" (Easyfun remix) 3:12

#"1999" (Michael Calfan remix) 3:03

#"1999" (R3hab remix) 3:18

#"1999" (Carta remix) 2:52

#"1999" (Super Cruel remix) 2:51

#"1999" (Young Franco remix) 3:33

#"1999" (Dipha Barus remix) 2:28

#"1999" (The Knocks remix) 3:40

Charts



Weekly charts

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|-

! scope="col"| Chart (201819)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

|-

|-

|-

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! scope="row"| Finland Digital Songs ('Billboard')

| 9

|-

! scope="row"| Greece International Digital Singles (IFPI)

| 83

|-

|-

|-

! scope="row"| Ireland (IRMA)

| 28

|-

! scope="row"| Israel (Media Forest TV Airplay)

| 5

|-

! scope="row"| New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)

| 10

|-

! scope="row"| Netherlands (Tipparade)

| 14

|-

|-

! scope="row"| South Korea International Downloads (Gaon)

| 96

|-

! scope="row"| Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)

| 15

|-

|-

|-

|-

! scope="row"| US Pop Digital Songs ('Billboard')

| 23

|}

Year-end charts



Certifications



Release history



Vengaboys version



In September 2021, Vengaboys released a cover version of the song, which was retitled "1999 (I Wanna Go Back)" and came with a deepfake-style video which saw the cover stars from various 1990s albums lip-syncing to the song and the band put into the 'Friends' title sequence with the sofa and fountain. One of the "deepfakes" is superimposed on the single cover of Vengaboys' own "We're Going To Ibiza".

Notes



References



Category:2018 songs

Category:2018 singles

Category:Charli XCX songs

Category:Troye Sivan songs

Category:Songs about nostalgia

Category:Cultural depictions of Britney Spears

Category:Songs written by Charli XCX

Category:Songs written by Troye Sivan

Category:Songs written by Leland (musician)

Category:Songs written by Oscar Holter

Category:Songs written by Noonie Bao

Category:Asylum Records singles

Category:Atlantic Records singles

Category:Deepfakes

Category:Malefemale vocal duets

Category:Vengaboys songs

Category:2021 singles

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