Charli XCX and John Cale Think They're Gonna Die in This 'House'

"When I think of Wuthering Heights, I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit,"

"One thing that stuck with me was how John Cale described a key sonic requirement of the Velvet Underground. That any song had to be both 'elegant and brutal.' When the summer ended, I was still ruminating on John's words."

"I'm a prisoner to live for eternity,"

"I think I'm gonna die in this house,"

"I think you're gonna die in this house."

Charli XCX and Velvet Underground's John Cale released "House," a poem-elegy single and music video premiering November 10 for Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights soundtrack. The track layers Cale's menacing spoken lines and Charli's signature autotune over an industrial thrum, set in a decaying house with a vulture, red wax, and grave imagery. Lyrics alternate between intimate dread and outward warnings about death, creating a witchy, haunted atmosphere that channels Emily Brontë's novel. Charli connected with Cale after watching Todd Haynes's documentary on the Velvet Underground and pursued a sound both elegant and brutal.

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