Catch You

The single was first announced on New Year's Eve 2006, where Ellis-Bextor performed the song on the BBC's "New Year Live" show.{{cite news|title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Catch You (Live)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiqig3wNsU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/DHiqig3wNsU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=YouTube|date=1 January 2007}}{{cbignore}} "Catch You" was written by Cathy Dennis and co-written by Greg Kurstin and Rhys Barker and produced by Greg Kurstin.{{cite AV media notes |title=Trip the Light Fantastic|others=Sophie Ellis-Bextor |date=2007|type=liner notes |publisher=Fascination Records.}} It is a pop rock song{{cite web|title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor Catch You: Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/catch-you-mw0000477509|work=Allmusic|accessdate=6 August 2012}} and combines guitars, zingy keyboards, nu wave angular guitars with a nagging pop melody.{{cite web|title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Catch You|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/pages/sophieellisbextorx19x02x07|work=Contact Music|date=5 August 2008 |accessdate=6 August 2012}} The lyrics concern Sophie possibly bugging various parts of her love interest's flat (mailbox, "easy chair", flatscreen), in the hope that she will "catch him".{{cite news|last=Waterman |first=Stuart |title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor 'Catch You' – Popjustice |url=http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=981&Itemid=295 |accessdate=6 August 2012 |newspaper=Popjustice |date=28 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027231403/http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=981&Itemid=295 |archivedate=27 October 2007 }}

K. Ross Hoffman of Allmusic commented, "She sounds dramatically reinvigorated here, with a notable infusion of rock guitars and often a forceful, even menacing, electro edge to the productions, evident right out the gate in this strident, barnstorming first single."{{cite news|last=Hoffman|first=K. Ross|title=Trip the Light Fantastic – Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/trip-the-light-fantastic-mw0000780709|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Allmusic|date=21 May 2007}} Nick Levine of Digital Spy called it "a turbo-charged stalker-pop."{{cite news|last=Levine|first=Nick|title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor: 'Trip The Light Fantastic'|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/albumreviews/a58175/sophie-ellis-bextor-trip-the-light-fantastic.html|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Digital Spy|date=23 May 2007}} Emily MacKay of Yahoo! Music called it "a merciless first strike, a crisp, laser-cut, feather-light puff of dance-floor ephemera sprinkled with disco 'pow!'s, its '70s synth-Chinoiserie chorus given an icy aloofness by Sophie's plummy delivery."{{cite news|last=MacKay |first=Emily |title=Sophie Ellis Bextor – Trip The Light Fantastic – Yahoo! Music |url=http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/070524/33/21a40.html |accessdate=6 August 2012 |newspaper=Yahoo! Music |date=24 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722141434/http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/070524/33/21a40.html |archivedate=22 July 2011 }} Stuart Waterman of Popjustice commented: "It is both a very good song and an excellent advertisement for romantic lunacy. It sounds not unlike what would happen if the Sugababes kidnapped Avril Lavigne and bullied her into playing guitar on one of their more 'upbeat' numbers."

Talia Kraines of BBC Music wrote that the song "gave us a grittier Sophie."{{cite news|last=Kraines|first=Talia|title=BBC – Music – Review of Sophie Ellis Bextor – Trip the Light Fantastic|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6wvr|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=BBC|date=24 May 2007}} Stuart McCaighy of This Is Fake DIY gave the song a mixed review, commenting "It was perhaps a touch one-dimensional, too 'of the moment' for a lead single; its chorus dragged rather than ignited."{{cite news|last=McCaighy|first=Stuart|title=Sophie Ellis Bextor – Trip The Light Fantastic|url=http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/albums/sophie-ellis-bextor-trip-the-light-fantastic/|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=This Is Fake DIY|date=21 May 2007}} However, Kitty Empire of The Observer expressed: "It's a rubberised stab of bunny-boiler club-pop, which deserved to chart higher than number 8."{{cite news|last=EMpire|first=Kitty|title=CD of the Week: Trip the Light Fantastic by Sophie Ellis Bextor | Music | The Observer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/may/20/popandrock.features1|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=The Observer|date=20 May 2007}}

When the song was released, its immediate competition included Kelis's single "Lil Star", The Fray's "How to Save a Life", Take That's "Shine", Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around" and Mika's "Grace Kelly". "Catch You" peaked at No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web|url=http://www.sophieellisbextor.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001573;p=17#000277|title=Sophie Ellis Bextor Forums: Catch You – Review|access-date=31 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204343/http://www.sophieellisbextor.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001573;p=17#000277|archive-date=27 September 2007|url-status=dead}} The single also peaked at No. 33 on the ARIA Singles Chart and at No. 7 on the ARIA Dance Chart. The song also reached the B-list of Radio 1's official playlist and the A-list of BBC Radio 2's official playlist. The song stayed in the UK Top 40 for two months and went to sell 148,000 copies.{{cite web |url=http://www.sophie-online.net/en/ttlf_album.php |title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor @ Sophie-Online.net • Your 24/7 resource for all things Sophie Ellis-Bextor |accessdate=21 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505044625/http://www.sophie-online.net/en/ttlf_album.php |archivedate=5 May 2008 }} Catch You – copies sold in the UK

The music video was subsequently filmed in Venice by Sophie Muller, and was released on 13 January 2007. The video has been compared to the movie Don't Look Now.{{Cite news | last = Eyre | first = Hermione | title = Ice queen: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, pop's coolest diva | work = The Independent | date = 28 April 2007 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ice-queen-sophie-ellisbextor-pops-coolest-diva-446443.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080422050912/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ice-queen-sophie-ellisbextor-pops-coolest-diva-446443.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 22 April 2008 | accessdate = 24 February 2011 }}

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• 2-track single

1. "Catch You" – 3:17
2. "Down with Love" – 3:55

• Maxi-single

1. "Catch You" – 3:17
2. "Down with Love" – 3:55
3. "Catch You" (Moto Blanco Radio Edit) – 3:31
4. "Catch You" (Riff & Rays Radio Edit) – 3:35
5. "Catch You" (Music Video) – 3:27

• 12_inch vinyl

1. "Catch You" (Moto Blanco Club Mix) – 8:29
2. "Catch You" (Moto Blanco Dub) – 6:49
3. "Catch You" (Digital Dog Mix) – 6:37
4. "Catch You" (Riff & Rays Mix) – 8:19

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• 12-inch picture disc

1. "Catch You" – 3:17
2. "Catch You" (Jay Cox's Fizzekal Half Dub Remix) – 6:08
3. "Catch You" (Moto Blanco Radio Edit) – 3:31
4. "Catch You" (Digital Dog Mix) – 6:37

• Digital single (2024){{Cite web |title=Catch You |url=https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/3peCENeconKarhHryWRgBS?si=c4v_37GwREC6shLIRoBjUA |website=Spotify}}

1. "Catch You" – 3:19
2. "Down with Love" – 3:56
3. "Catch You" (Riff & Rays Radio Edit) – 3:35
4. "Catch You" (Riff & Rays Mix) – 8:20
5. "Catch You" (Digital Dog Mix) – 6:36
6. "Catch You" (Jay Cox's Fizzekal Half Dub) – 6:08
7. "Catch You" (Moto Blanco Radio Mix) – 3:31

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Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Trip the Light Fantastic.

Studio

• Recorded at Echo Studios (East Road, London)

Personnel

• Written by Cathy Dennis, Rhys Barker and Greg Kurstin
• Vocal production by Cathy Dennis
• Engineered by Dario Dendi, assisted by Zoe Smith at Eden Studios
• Assistant vocal recording engineer: Eddie Miller at Echo Studios
• Programming and instruments by Greg Kurstin
• Additional programming by Brio Taliaferro
• Additional guitar: Tim Van Der Kuil
• All music produced and played by Greg Kurstin

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