Uffie

The title track "Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans" heavily samples The Velvet Underground's 1970 song "Rock & Roll"; during an interview with The Quietus in July 2010, Uffie claimed that it was "fucking difficult" to deal with Lou Reed while getting the sample cleared.

When asked if he had heard the song, she stated, "Yes he has, he had to clear it. And it was a very not nice experience dealing with him, I have to say [...] I don't know what this guy's problem is but on the credits I think it even says something like he wrote it. He gets everything."

Anna-Catherine Hartley (born December 9, 1987), known professionally as Uffie, is an American-French singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ, and fashion designer formerly signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records.

Uffie's music incorporates synthpop, acid house, alternative dance, and "somewhere between electro, rap and nu skool".

She is perhaps best known for her single "Pop the Glock", as well as "TThhEe PPaARRtTYY", her collaboration with Justice which appears on their Grammy nominated album Cross.

Some of her live performances have been described as "Warholian".

In 2005, Uffie booked Feadz for a party she was organizing, and the two began a relationship shortly after.

Feadz constantly pressured Uffie to provide vocals for some of his tracks and finally in late 2005 Uffie wrote "Pop the Glock" while on holiday and released it as a Myspace demo.

In early 2005, Feadz, who was Uffie's boyfriend at the time, convinced her to provide vocals on his track "Uffie & Me" for his EP Forward 4, which was when she began to develop an interest in making music.

Later that year, she wrote and recorded "Pop the Glock", which was produced by Feadz and began to shop the demo around to various record labels.

Record label Arcade Mode gave the song a limited promo release in January 2006 with the B-side "Ready to Uff" which Feadz's labelmate Mr. Oizo produced.

Soon after the release Uffie was signed to the French electronic music label Ed Banger Records by Busy P.

"Pop the Glock" became her first single and was given a limited promo release on Arcade Mode in January 2006.

Busy P, the owner of Ed Banger Records, heard the single and quickly signed both Uffie and Feadz to the label.

"Pop the Glock" and its B-side "Ready to Uff" were both given an official release titled Pop the Glock/Ready to Uff on February 27, 2006 through Ed Banger Records.

Both songs contained elements of electro and rap.

The release also featured a remix by SebastiAn.

Two more new tracks from Uffie, "Hot Chick" and "In Charge", leaked to blogs before being released as a double A-side in November 2006.

Uffie's record label Ed Banger Records first stated in late 2006 that her debut album would be released mid-to-late 2007, then sometime in 2008.

In February 2007, the song "Dismissed" was included on Ed Rec Vol. 2, an Ed Banger Records label compilation.

The EP Suited and Looted was released in June 2007 by Ed Banger Records, containing the single "F1rst Love" and "Brand New Car".

Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles featured vocals sampled from Uffie on the track "Make It Hott", although it was never officially released, it can be found through various audioblogs.

Also in 2007, Uffie collaborated with labelmates Justice on the song "TThhEe PPaARRtTYY", from their debut album †.

Uffie then began dating graffiti artist and photographer André Saraiva, and the two were married in August 2008.

Uffie contributed the song "Robot Oeuf" to the compilation Ed Rec Vol. 3, released on May 26, 2008.

In late 2008, she worked with Mr. Oizo on the track "Steroids", included on Mr. Oizo's album Lambs Anger.

The couple divorced in the summer of 2009, before the birth of their daughter Henrietta in October 2009.

She took a brief hiatus from work, which gave her time to find herself and mature as an artist and finish her full-length debut album, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans.

It was also included in the soundtrack to Pedro Almodóvar's 2009 film Broken Embraces, starring Penélope Cruz.

A remix of "Steroids" also appears on Mr. Oizo's 2009 EP Pourriture.

Uffie has been described as a muse for French DJs, and her style was described as being "often performed in a wannabe English accent" with "a deliberately staid anti-flow delivery that walks a fine line between electro and nu-skool rap."

In 2010, Uffie released her debut album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans, which was included on several year-end critics' lists and was nominated in the French Victoires de la Musique for Best Electronic Album.

Her debut album, titled Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans, was eventually released June 15, 2010 in Europe and June 22, 2010 in the United States.

Following a hiatus, Uffie independently released her EP Tokyo Love Hotel in 2019.

Uffie was born Anna-Catherine Hartley in Miami, Florida, to a Japanese mother and an English father.

She moved to Hong Kong with her family at the age of four, where she spent her formative years.

According to Hartley, Uffie is a nickname her father gave her, and comes from the French word "œuf", which means "egg".

She recalls: "[W]hen I was little it started as 'Enough'. My parents were always saying 'Enough!' Then my dad figured, 'Hey, enough is un œuf, is a petite œuf' [...] So by the time my memory begins they were all calling me Uffie."

During her teens, Uffie moved with her mother to Fort Lauderdale and then back to Miami, where she was arrested for vandalism at the age of 15, causing her mother to send her to live with her father in Paris.

Uffie studied fashion in Paris and attended the International School of Paris.