Ciao Adios

Album: Speak Your Mind (2017)
Charted: 9
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Anne-Marie sings of leaving her cheating boyfriend.

    If you're giving her all of your money and time
    I'm not gonna sit here wasting mine on you, yeah, you
    Ciao adios, I'm done


    "Ciao" and "adios" are the Italian and Spanish words for "goodbye."
  • Anne-Marie wrote the song alongside Jenn Decilveo (Andra Day's"Rise Up", Rixton's "Wait On Me"), Mason Levy (Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" and "What Do You Mean?", Maroon 5's "Daylight") and Tom Meredith (One Direction's "Tell Me A Lie," Mat Kearney's "Los Angeles"). Levy produced the track under his production name MdL.
  • Anne-Marie performed "Ciao Adios" live in preview at KOKO, on November 28, 2016. She also performed the song on her late 2016 tour. The songstress released it as a single on February 10, 2017.

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