{"id":6505,"date":"2025-11-06T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/charli-xcx-john-cale-wuthering-heights\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T21:07:00","slug":"charli-xcx-john-cale-wuthering-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/charli-xcx-john-cale-wuthering-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli xcx, John Cale Team For \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_5770-copy-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Charli xcx performing in Columbus, Oh., in 2024 (photo: Henry Redcliffe).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Charli xcx has let the cat out of the bag regarding her contributions to the upcoming remake of <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>, for which her songs will also double as her next album. The first single from the project is \u201cHouse\u201d featuring 83-year-old Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale, which will be out Monday (Nov. 10). The film, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, hits theaters on Valentine\u2019s Day (Feb. 14), <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a call from Emerald Fennell last Christmas asking whether I would consider working on a song for her adaptation of\u00a0<em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>,\u201d Charli wrote on Instagram. \u201cI read the script and immediately felt inspired, so Finn Keane and I began working on not just one but many songs that we felt connected to the world she was creating. After being so in the depths of my previous album [2024\u2019s massive hit <em>brat<\/em>], I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/khruangbin-discover-a-new-universe\/\">Khruangbin Discover A New \u2018Universe\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/gorillaz-idles-new-single\/\">Gorillaz Find \u2018God\u2019 With IDLES\u2019 Joe Talbot<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/journey-farewell-tour\/\">Journey Saying Goodbye On Final Frontier Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The artist had separately become \u201creally taken\u201d with Todd Haynes\u2019 2021 self-titled Velvet Underground documentary and said she kept coming back to a phrase uttered therein by Cale: \u201cany song has to be both elegant and brutal.\u201d \u201cI got really stuck on that phrase. I wrote it down in my Notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about what he meant,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"QIit3k4fnWU\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The opportunity to set it to music came in late April when Charli was on tour in Austin, Texas. \u201cFinn and I went to the studio and wrote the bones for a song that would eventually become \u2018House.\u2019 When the summer ended, I was still ruminating on John\u2019s words. So, I decided to reach out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply inspired, but also to see whether he might want to collaborate on any,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After the pair spoke on the phone (\u201cwow \u2026 that voice, so elegant, so brutal\u201d), Charli sent Cale sone of the songs. \u201cWe started talking specifically about \u2018House.\u2019 We spoke about the idea of a poem. He recorded something and sent it to me. Something that only John could do. And it was \u2026 well, it made me cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> is the first of several high-profile film projects in the works for Charli, led by the A24 film\u00a0<em>The Moment<\/em>, which is based on her original idea by Charli and will also star the U.K. pop maven. It will feature Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Demetriou, Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott, Kate Berlant, Arielle Dombasle and Hailey Benton Gates and is due in theaters next year.<\/p>\n<p>She has additional acting roles in Cathy Yan\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Gallerist<\/em>, Gregg Araki\u2019s\u00a0<em>I Want Your Sex<\/em>\u00a0and a remake of the 1978 schlock horror classic\u00a0<em>Faces of Death<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charli xcx performing in Columbus, Oh., in 2024 (photo: Henry Redcliffe). 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