- published: 08 Jun 2007
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Overpowered is the second solo studio album by Irish recording artist Róisín Murphy, released on 11 October 2007 by EMI. The album was to be released in the United States in late 2008 or early 2009, but was cancelled by EMI due to financial difficulties on their part. Receiving widespread critical acclaim, the album was more commercially successful than its predecessor, debuting at number twenty on the UK Albums Chart.
In 2006, whilst promoting her band Moloko's greatest hits album, Catalogue, Murphy announced that she was recording a new album to be released in 2007. After signing to EMI in May 2006, Murphy set out to produce a pop album with a heavy disco influence. With a bigger budget behind her than with her last record company, the independent Echo Records, Murphy recorded around thirty songs for the album with various producers and writers in Miami, London and Barcelona, commenting that each of the producers aided the pop influence of the album, as they all wanted to write "the single".
I am overpowered
And I can hardly believe it
You have found my hide out
now you rule over me
The great escape how astonishing
We laughed and sang all through the night
The fire's almost dead and we're still waiting
For the storm to set
And blow me away
I am overpowered
And I can hardly believe it
You have found my hide out
now you rule over me
You blocked the road with barriers
But we clear the way and we carry on
We can never ignore you
Cause you're always around
I am overpowered
And I can hardly believe it
You have found my hide out
now you rule over me
I am overpowered
And I can hardly believe it
You have found my hide out