Jacques
by Jax Jones (featuring Tove Lo)

Album: Snacks (Supersize) (2019)
Charted: 67
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Songfacts®:

  • This track finds Tove Lo recounting a one-night fling with a French guy named Jacques.

    Je m'appelle Jacques and I love you a lot
    I'm with you tonight, but tomorrow I'm not


    Tove Lo said: "It's raw and cheeky, because that's what that night was."
  • This was Tove Lo's first official collaboration with Jax Jones, though she has used his 2016 track "House Work" as a pump-up song backstage for several years. "Our two days in London were some of the most fun and awesome sessions I've had," the Swede said. "He played different ideas and tracks, and I would just get in my zone and improvise melodies 'til I sang something we all loved."
  • As for the production, Jones said his bassline was mostly recorded live. "I didn't quantize it - I just played it throughout the record then cut it up, then used some sonics without much reverb and made it sound a bit crusty," he explained to Apple. "I think it matched the playfulness of Tove's delivery."
  • Jones said in the press release that in order to create the bassline, he channeled the great Chic bassist Jerry Barnes.
  • The song is included both on Jax Jones' debut album Snacks (Supersize) and Tove Lo's Sunshine Kitty LP.

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