Take Me Back by Tinchy Stryder

Album: Catch 22 (2009)

Charted: 3

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This was the fourth single release for East Londoner Tinchy Stryder, who is known as "The Prince of Grime."
The song features the British R&B singer and producer Taio Cruz, who also wrote and produced the track. Tinchy Stryder explained to Digital Spy how he hooked up with Cruz: "I met him a while ago when we were both doing a PA in Brighton. We started talking backstage and got on really well. Then I bumped into him again a few months later in a recording studio and we went from there. He's a great songwriter and we were on the same wavelength, just bouncing ideas off each other. That's how the song came about."
Stryder told Digital Spy that this song is "about relationship problems. In a lot of relationships people do something wrong with their girl or the other way round. You have to admit to it and ask them to take you back. I think many people will be able to relate to this because there's a lot of cheating going on in our world!"
Cruz told the story of the song in publicity materials: "Fraser (T. Smith, Taio's long time collaborator) had a beat and Tinchy Stryder had the lyrics and he was talking about how he'd cheated on his girl and he was sorry and I thought it would be cute to put 'Take Me Back' into the chorus."
Cruz recorded a slightly different version for his 2009 album, Rokstarr. The British R&B singer also recorded a full solo of the song without Tinchy for the US re-release of Rokstarr.

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