Finish Line

Album: XX Twenty Years (2011)
Charted: 13
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Songfacts®:

  • British/Iranian DJ and singer-songwriter Yasmin's second single was produced by frequent Tinie Tempah collaborator Labrinth, and was released on May 8, 2011. She told Ministry of Sound how the trip-hoppy track was written: "It was the first song that I made where I really felt like I'd found my own sound and who I wanted to be as an artist. It's a really important song in my career, it's really important to me and it got a lot of people interested in me. I made the track with Labrinth who's a friend, I asked him for a studio session and we started at 1 p.m. and it was a really long day! We tried loads of ideas and nothing was working, then at about 9 p.m. we started playing around with new drum sounds and then strumming some chords, I wrote the whole song to guitar."
  • Yasmin explained the song's meaning: "It's about a mutual decision in any relationship that you sometimes have to make when you realize that no matter how much you want it to work, it's not going to."

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