Genre: Dance Pop
Producers: Max Martin/William Grach/Dr Duke
Writers: Danny Allen, Suzie Stockholm
Recorded: 2012
Suzie, full name Suzie Stockholm arose to stardom last year. Instead of working her way up the bar, this Swedish pop tart showed that the arts of T&A, money and strategic excellence could be key to success. Starting out her career as a joke after some what becoming a famous socialite in Sweden after her father, already a businessman at the time, won the biggest jackpot lottery in the history of Sweden in 2005 that measured up to SEK300 Million and since winning instead of sitting back and relaxing with the huge fortune, the money hungry father of Suzie's invested in the money and soon turned it into billions, as her father, has reached the top 5 in the Swedish Forbes since 2007.
With a socialite status in Sweden, the young wildcat Suzie deemed "Daddy's Little Girl", was seemingly bored with her modeling career in her country so what did she want to do next? Music. Virtually unknown in the United States, Europe and many other countries, Suzie started her own music campaign, the totally dominate the music industry. But where's the talent? In Suzie's case.... she didn't need any.
In 2011, after contacting legendary female icon, Stephanie Fierce and literally buying her onto a featured track (a rumored 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS) which also samples one of Fierce's song "Love Feels Like Grenades", Suzie released "Love Feels Like Osama Bin Laden ft. Stephanie Fierce. The song, became a historic track, that was either loved or hated. The track was trashed by almost every critic known, despite calling out Stephanie Fierce's brilliant rap verse, the song was also lit by not only the media but the general public as well with the Parent Council protesting the track and Suzie herself, calling her a serious threat to the youth. The debut single by Suzie, which was not able to be heard on the internet and the only way to listen was to buy it for 1.99 on itunes, quickly soared up the charts and hit #2 on the Digital Outlit market making it one of the highest charting debut's in history.
Suzie continued her reign of terror after the track, when she paid each (numbers reaching up to a million) to team up with Buzz&Hype and Matty to release another track "Born Ready". The track, which was heavily auto tuned, but much more lightly received by the critics then her debut, also reached within the top ten of the charts at #5, hit after hit for the Swedish tart.
She then released her debut album, Me Against The Industry that featured a cluster of paid featured singers and producers that were given the proposition to make this a successful album full of hits, and with Suzie's status already as one of the most hated and loved singers of our time, would she flop?
The answer is no, as by the end of 2011, Me Against The Industry sold 3,000,000 records and became one of the highest selling albums in 2011 as with these songs, some actually better then expected. Suzie managed to steal the hearts of fans who respected her straight forward bitchy attitude, and even some of her songs.. By this time however, Suzie was already taking her music career actually serious.
Months pass and still known as the trashy poptart, Suzie went onto release a single with legendary Girlspice singer 'Sophia' and still found herself in the tabloids even though the track was received critically mixed to well recived by the critics and by sales, becoming a top 5 hit. Since then however Suzie has been quite quiet, too quiet actually. Quiet because she has been hard at work on delivering another album, an album that she says will be "one of the best to come" as she's taking things much more seriously this time around, do you think Suzie can do it?
Burn Away is the first single off of Suzie's soon to be titled sophomore album.
We bet you were expecting a title much more raunchy, something that would put Suzie in a wrestling ring, where the media and Parent council would began to bash her like they always do. But not this time around. The title makes you think, what about burning away? The tracks starts off with a rigid aggressive pounding beat that moves through the beginning of the song for a few seconds that then makes a helicopter like, rising sound, following that Suzie's over confident, edgy vocals are heard slicked with some light auto-tune, not much needed as she's quick paced "singing" behind this brilliant production number; Judgers judge| Haters hate| In this fickle world| We make our own fate Suzie coos out as she continues to bring on her next lines. This time with the same strong and confident delivery of the lines before, this time a bit more sexier by the time she gets to the already "stuck in my head" worthy lines: Judgers judge| Haters hate| In this fickle world| We make our own fate as she's saying those lines strongly but however, the song sounds as if it's rising behind Suzie's vocals, we were right as the song breaks into a euphoric pop liftoff that sounds massively futuristic with lilting synths and digital processing that compliments Suzie's voice vibrantly and makes it sound ultimately...good for someone who is always ripped for bad vocals. Not saying she is doing anything vocally like Katie Coyle, but with top notch production and studio equipment, Suzie brings it behind this potent production. With the futuristic backing beat sailing across the track and Suzie nasally singing the very memorable chorus The haters wish I’d burn away|But I gotta to tell you that I’m here to stay|The haters wish I’d burn so fast|They thought this success wouldn’t last|I’ve proved you wrong|No matter what you’d say|There’s no chance|
That I’ll ever burn away, she says the last line strongly as she sneers the words without singing so it stands out to the listener that there is no way she will burn away. Let's be honest, the song has a sweet chorus. The chorus then slowly slips away and returns to that aggressive backing beat that was heard at the beginning of the track, as Suzie returns to the next verse of the track. She has this light auto-tune to her voice that quite compliments the brash cockiness and whispery tone of voice, as it is quite obvious that Suzie has mastered her bleak vocals and seems to know what she's doing it it. The tracks unrelenting beat, breaks down for the next chorus once again, showing that futuristic, euphoric beat that might just become your guilty pleasure and grow on you as she sings the chorus once again however, once the chorus begins to fade out again, it doesn't exactly fade, the track sounds like it rising again with this unorthodoxed beat as Suzie says the lines once again There’s no chance| That I’ll ever burn away. Following that, the track breaks into a surprising dubstep break down, which may totally take you by surprise but may have you feeling its beat as Suzie blares out Burn, burn, burn away| Don’t you realize, I’m here to stay| Burn, burn, burn away| Burn, burn, burn away|Don’t you realize, I’m here to stay| as she sings it sexily with even more digital backup but there's no doubt the breakout sounds brilliant and takes you off god, after saying "stay" and the word being repeated massively with light synths, the dub breakdown fades away as the synths take over, bringing us to the chorus as the tempo is cracked a bit higher as Suzie sings her way throughout the last chorus that incorporates some euro rave synths that may have you bopping your head as the song rides out and comes to an halting end of this jam that has Suzie certifying herself as someone here to stay, despite what anyone has to say about her. Has Suzie impressed you? CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF!
Judgers judge
Haters hate
In this fickle world
We make our own fateThe dirty looks and negativity
Have become too common
It’s no surprise to me
Judgers will judge
Haters will hate
In this fickle world
We make our own fateThe haters wish I’d burn away
But I gotta to tell you that I’m here to stay
The haters wish I’d burn so fast
They thought this success wouldn’t last
I’ve proved you wrong
No matter what you’d say
There’s no chance
That I’ll ever burn away
I ain’t going nowhere
No matter what gets said
No matter how much hate comes my way
I ain’t hanging from a thread
Just say what you want
Do what you please
I ain’t going nowhere
You won’t bring me to my knees
The haters wish I’d burn away
But I gotta to tell you that I’m here to stay
The haters wish I’d burn so fast
They thought this success wouldn’t last
I’ve proved you wrong
No matter what you’d say
There’s no chance
That I’ll ever burn away
Burn, burn, burn away
Don’t you realize, I’m here to stay
Burn, burn, burn away
Burn, burn, burn away
Don’t you realize, I’m here to stayThe haters wish I’d burn away
But I gotta to tell you that I’m here to stay
The haters wish I’d burn so fast
They thought this success wouldn’t last
I’ve proved you wrong
No matter what you’d say
There’s no chance
That I’ll ever burn away
(2x)
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With a stop at Total Annihilation and an album to come out soon, has this track become one of your guilty pleasures as we are rushing straight into the summer with this relentless club jam, as Suzie tells us she's not going anywhere in this quite inspirational track. What do you think? The single goes on sale TOMORROW!
