Break My Heart

Album

Future Nostalgia

Label

Warner Music

Genre

Disco-funk

Composer(s)

Dua Lipa;Melissa Webb;Andrew Wotman;Ali Tamposi;Stefan Johnson;Jordan K. Johnson;Andrew Farriss;Michael Hutchence

Entered Chart

Apr 11, 2020

Peak Date

Aug 22, 2020

Released

25 March 2020

Recorded

2019 Studio Gold Tooth (Beverly Hills) Oddities (London)

Catalog #

Warner

"Break My Heart" is an funky disco-pop song where Dua Lipa questions whether a new love will leave her nursing a broken heart again. I should've stayed at home 'Cause now there ain't no letting you go Am I falling in love with the one that could break my heart? Lipa is falling for her new beau so that hard that should they part, it would be a heartbreak that would never mend. She explained to Apple Music: "It's about finally being in a happy place and knowing this new person is amazing. But then thinking: 'Nothing else compares to this, and what if this ends and it breaks my heart?' It's the whole thing of being scared to be too happy." Dua is likely referencing her boyfriend Anwar Hadid as "the one" she is falling in love with. The American model is brother to the famous siblings Bella and Gigi Hadid. The couple first met back in early 2019 when Hadid showed Lipa some songs he'd written. They started dating in the summer of 2019. Dua Lipa wrote the song with: Producer Andrew Watt and songwriter Ali Tamposi, whose previous collaborations together include Camilla Cabello's Monster hit "Havana." Jordan K. Johnson and Stefan Johnson of The Monsters and the Strangerz musical collective. They have worked a number of times with Maroon 5 including the hit song "Memories." "Break My Heart" marks Lipa's first time collaborating with Ali Tamposi, Andrew Watt and The Monsters & Strangerz. Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss of the Australian band INXS are also credited as songwriters because the melody of "Break My Heart" is similar to their 1987 single "Need You Tonight." Dua Lipa admitted to Billboard's Pop Shop podcast the likenesses between the two tracks aren't intentional. "When we were in the studio, we didn't quite connect the dots. We were just like, 'Oh yeah, this is great!' We were on such a high and we were just working on it, and then I listened back, and I was like 'Hold on, guys.'" "I think it's great, I think she's really cool," INXS' guitarist Tim Farriss told NME of his brother's writing credit. "It's kind of bizarre to hear it like that, because it's really an interpretation. Hats off to her for asking for permission to use it and for the writing credit. I think there should be more of that stuff. If you're going to do it, just be straight-up about it and it's all good." The song originated with Dua Lipa asking Andrew Watt to play some bass guitar. "When we got into the studio, she wanted me to pick up a bass and focus on something bass-heavy, and I just started playing that baseline," Watt recalled to Consequence of Sound. "All of us in the room really clung to it."

I've always been the one to say the first goodbye
Had to love and lose a hundred million times
Had to get it wrong to know just what I like
Now I'm fallin'

You say my name like I have never heard before
I'm indecisive but this time I know for sure
I hope I'm not the only one that feels it all
Are you fallin'?

Center of attention
You know you can get whatever you want from me
Whenever you want it, baby
It's you in my reflection
Now I'm afraid of all the things it could do to me
If I would've known it, baby

I would've stayed at home
'Cause I was doin' better alone
But when you said, "Hello"
I know that was the end of it all
I should've stayed at home
'Cause now there ain't no letting you go
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?
Oh no, I was doin' better alone
But when you said, "Hello"
I know that was the end of it all
I should've stayed at home
'Cause now there ain't no letting you go
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?

I wonder when you go, if I stay on your mind
Two can play that game, but you win me every time
Everyone before you was a waste of time
Yeah, you got me

Center of attention
You know you can get whatever you want from me
Whenever you want it, baby
It's you in my reflection
Now I'm afraid of all the things it could do to me
If I would've known it, baby

I would've stayed at home
'Cause I was doin' better alone
But when you said, "Hello"
I know that was the end of it all
I should've stayed at home
'Cause now there ain't no letting you go
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?
Oh no, I was doin' better alone
But when you said, "Hello"
I know that was the end of it all
I should've stayed at home
'Cause now there ain't no letting you go
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?

Ooh, break my heart
Ooh, break my heart
Ooh
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?

I would've stayed at home
'Cause I was doin' better alone
But when you said, "Hello"
I know that was the end of it all
I should've stayed at home
'Cause now there ain't no letting you go
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?
Oh no, I was doin' better alone
But when you said, "Hello"
I know that was the end of it all
I should've stayed at home
'Cause now there ain't no letting you go
Am I falling in love
With the one that could break my heart?