Throwback

Album: Only Human (2014)
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  • This song features Cheryl Cole rapping. She originally came up with a different rap, but then heard a Ciara track in the gym with identical rhymes. "For a second my heart stopped, I thought my song had been leaked," she told Digital Spy. "But someone else had rapped identically the flow of the rap I originally had on there, so that was actually a quick change."

    "I had to go to the gym and say, 'Excuse me...what was that song you were just playing?,'" Cheryl added. "And then take it to the producers I'd worked with on 'Throwback' and be like, 'Listen, it's almost identical', and they were like, 'S--t, that's crazy, because none of us had heard the song!'"

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