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Sweden's Julia Spada goes it alone in superb style with debut solo single "You're Mine"

16 June 2016, 10:35 | Written by Andrew Hannah

Having made her name as a song writer and collaborator with the likes of Little Jinder and Steve Angello, Swedish singer/producer Julia Spada has struck out on her own with the stunning "You're Mine"

With a voice recalling Robyn at her most impassioned, Spada has created a lovelorn dancefloor banger. It's the kind of song you wait for, holding off asking that person you've had your eye on all night until the DJ drops this glorious track. The timing is perfect; it's the last song before the lights come up, a relationship that's over before it started...but at least it's one night of something - passion, closeness, friendship, whatever - before the realities of the day kick in and you're returned to all the problems of the world.

There's so much that's perfect about "You're Mine"; from the sharp beats and finger-click percussion, to the synths which sound like everything from sampled choir to twinkling starlight, to the way Spada's voice moves from plaintive in the verses to an incredible pleading falsetto in the chorus. That shift in vocal matches the themes of the song, as Spada tell us, "You're Mine" is "about that vacuum just after it's hit you that love is over, but you're still desperately clinging on to some last piece of hope that the two of you are gonna make it through.

"I wanted to write about the ugliness and selfishness of that moment - being willing to humiliate yourself by begging for one last night together."

It may have taken a while for Spada to make the decision to work on her own, but it's been more than worth the wait.

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