Charli XCX

only know Number One Angel but love it, what else should i hear

absolutely love 'true romance' from start to end, serves as a good intro imo

thanks nxd

whereas I like the Rock Charli of Sucker, which I like allllmost beginning to end (i start fading a couple of tracks from the end)

Pop 2 is just Number 1 Angel but way better so that's what I'd recommend next. True Romance is pretty good too

thanks, you are all too sweet

"siri, pls take anne-marie's '2002' and lose the anachronisms, and make it a bit more believable, oh, and throw a donk on it, and a bit of house piano too"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRkB8FlkmVM

we don't need the young wolverine on the song :(

He was 4 in 1999.

this kicks ass

Troye's crushing on Johnathan Taylor Thomas is cute, but otherwise this is pretty much the Ready Player One of music: depthless pop culture nostalgia from an artist (Charli, here) who should know better.

this is pretty good but it's no "No Angel" which is one of her best ever tracks

literally pick any random song off the charts from 1999 and it's likely to be significantly better than this song

almost offended b/c i have extremely fond memories of 1999 and its pop music

New song with Lizzo forthcoming?

https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/charli-xcx-announces-new-music-landing-this-week

oh that's interesting, a demo of "blame it on your love" leaked a while ago (like all her stuff does lol) and it was the basis for what eventually became "track 10" but had a much more conventional verse/chorus structure so i wonder if this is going to keep the same hook from "track 10"?

she said on twitter her new material is 'kind of a continuation of pop 2' which can only be a good thing, pop 2 was so so good. "backseat" and "track 10" remain some of the most thrilling tracks of the decade

it's Track 10 but not as good, yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Q4ttXokGs

Sucker still such a fantastic album. Doing It is so great

Charli came out to do Can't Stop w/Miley Cyrus at Big Weekend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pTRxl7h8g

seems v difficult to recreate the magic of track 10

ufo otm

Track 10 is ace, but was always a remix of "Blame it on Your Love" according to the stuff I read. It's not being recreated, it's just the original track without SOPHIE's amazing sensibilities for isolating the broken digital heart in the middle of it all. Obviously they dropped one of Charli's verses (my favourite) to make way for Lizzo, but the vocal is otherwise the same.

scratch that, I'm an idiot, relistening to Track 10 it's clearly a different vocal (and magic)

angels, my new album ‘Charli’ is out September 13th. i am so proud of this music and i cannot wait for the world to hear it. pre order ‘Charli’ now and come and see my on my world tour!! 💓 full details here: https://t.co/3p0fkPqmAC pic.twitter.com/4BBXGPtAPk

— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) June 13, 2019

Cautiously anticipating.

clips from the primavera performance of "gone" (intermittent shrieks of "REINA!!!" notwithstanding) were very promising

so many features...

it’s charli baby

As a 50ish guy I will be mildly embarrassed when the sleeve art pops up on my listening device in public. Because I am betting I am going to be listening to this a lot.

man, if you had told me in 2012 sky ferreira and charli xcx were doing a track together I'd be... way more excited than I am now that they actually are

wonder if it's this https://www.nme.com/news/music/charli-xcx-42-1230812

2099 feat Troye Sivan

Wonder if this is a new song of just some form of remix?

Ok - new song:

Charli XCX, a pop artisan who willingly and readily bends the conventions of the genre, used a pyramid of steps as her backdrop for an invigorated, albeit bare, set. She began with “Blame It On Your Love,” a reimagined version of Pop 2 fan favorite “Track 10” that now features Lizzo. Clad in what could easily pass as a fashionable spandex biking ensemble and a tailored pink feather jacket, she ran through fan favorites: “Focus,” “Boys” and “Spicy,” the Spice Girls re-take she just released with Diplo and Herve Pagez. But the clear standout was the debut of what’s alleged to be called “2099,” a collaboration with Sivan. And just prior, to celebrate Sivan’s birthday, which transpired the day prior, she brought out a cake and enlisted the crowd to sing him happy birthday: “I can’t sing without Auto-Tune so you guys have got to help me sing,” she said.

“2099” is markedly different than “1999,” without any of the tinkering instrumentation or exacting melodies that made it such a pop juggernaut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chSZCtLrgz8

this one's pretty good

this rules

Kind of fun listening to it become increasingly apparent that A.G. Cook has a production credit on that
Also his love for Rhythm Nation-era Jam & Lewis showing through a bit on the coda, which I love

Incredible song and video!

Is there any chance this can be the huge hit it deserves to be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrxBmyiMls

what the fuck is this shit

why has charli willingly contributed to the alarmingly vast wave of pseudo-covers of late-80s-thru-early-00s hits excreted by the edm industry over the past five years

not that she's incapable of her own brand of misguided garbage but damn

i sort of prefer the... trollishness of this compared to "1999" which strikes me as abjectly lazy songwriting dressed up as a concept

not that this doesn't suck in its own specific ways

considering that she's just a feature on it i've been willing to mostly blame diplo and whoever herve pagez is for that

Spicy is definitely one of the worst songs she's ever been involved with, but Gone is one of the best. It's exhausting being a fan of hers sometimes.

I've been going back to Pop 2 a lot recently. It didn't really click with me when it came out and I actually thought Number 1 Angel was much stronger. I'm definitely seeing why people were so excited about it now.

i still adore Pop 2, it's both her best release and by far the best thing to come out of anything related to PC Music. "Backseat", "Tears", "Unlock It" and "Track 10" are all especially thrilling

Man, that “Spicy” track/video is an abomination

When your label regards you as barely a notch above the writing-camp set you occasionally have to suck it up and do the job that a “Spicy” requires of you
Presumably she had a decent amount of fun making it, at least

she performed the song at pitchfork fest this past weekend which would indicate she is not a hostage in this situation

Heh, seems like I am alone in enjoying Spicy then.

I’m pretty interested to see what she does in terms of her set list for this upcoming headline tour. It’s been years since she’s toured properly - her shows for the last 3-4 years have either been opening for larger acts (T-Swift, Halsey), ravier “parties” (mostly in the wake of Pop 2) in a small number of cities and in small venues, or random club shows like the one with SOPHIE in LA at the end of 2016 where she played most of what would’ve constituted the now scrapped XCX World album. That’s meant a lot of inconsistency in an attempt to cater to different audiences - the Taylor show attendees got “Boom Clap” and “Fancy”, while at the club parties she’d bring out Caroline Polachek for “Tears” or whatever. I guess she’ll play a lot of songs from the new record on this new tour - hopefully a track or two from the first two albums makes the cut ahead of “Spicy”.

xp: Its certainly not her best, but I don't think it's particularly bad. I'm not too familiar with the source material.

I loorv it!

WTF?!

I'm not too familiar with the source material.

it's the second-best pop single of the '90s!

I was mostly listening to too much phish and sublime at the time unfortunately. I know the chorus to Wannabe but couldn't recognize the verses.

Sounds like a good homework assignment is to listen to Spice. :D

New track (ft. HAIM):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQKZ8z98gk