WEB DESK: Singer Charli XCX has released the soundtrack off her new song House for the upcoming film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, set to come out next year.
The song includes a spoken word part by Welsh musician and a former member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale, who also shouts the chorus, “I think I’m gonna die in this house.”
Charli, 33, wrote on Instagram that she has always admired Cale’s 1960s band, led by Lou Reed. She said she was inspired by a documentary where Cale called their songwriting “elegant and brutal.”
Being a great fan of The Velvet Underground, the singer, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, reached out to Cale for feedback on her music, which she said was strongly influenced by his style.
Eventually, we got in touch and spoke over the phone. Hearing his voice, so elegant, yet so brutal, was incredible, she said.
“I feel incredibly lucky to have worked with John on this track. I’ve been waiting quietly, full of excitement, to finally share it with all of you”, the singer shared.
They discussed adding a poem, and soon after, Cale sent her a recording. “It made me cry,” Charli said.
The video for House shows Charli inside a house in the forest, while Cale stands over her, reading his lines.
After the success of her hit 2024 album Brat, Charli said it felt exciting to explore “something entirely new.”
“When I think of Wuthering Heights, I think of passion and pain,” she said. “I think of the mud, the cold, the determination, and the grit.”
