Charli XCX

This is very good and filled in a lot of gaps for me.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/16/charli-xcx-its-weird-yelling-into-a-mic-while-my-boyfriend-does-a-puzzle

Meaghan Garvey did a great interview with her on the new album as well.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/charli-xcx-profile-how-im-feeling-right-now.html

"plans to release two more albums this year" !!!

this album's the best, willing to say it's better than pop 2 now

yeah maybe.... like i don't even want to go and compare. this album is all i could want in this vein rn.

fucking pop 2, the fucking greatest fucking record FUCK

YES

apart from sucker obv

Would be interesting to see a Charli albums poll at some point. I have a hard time picking between Pop 2, Sucker and her latest.

SUCKER is the only one that doesn't work for me. I would probably rank them like

how i'm feeling now > Pop 2 > Charli > True Romance > SUCKER

It's crazy to me that True Romance is only 8 years old, it feels so far away at this point.

wahhht

dead to me

I just can't with all the punky rock bits

lol that's my favourite part :) nothing quite as thrilling to me as charli's rock phase - i loved seeing her with a tight band playing huge dumb riffs

It's probably her most uneven album but songs like Need Ur Love, Boom Clap, Doing It and the title track are still some of my favourite songs she's done. It's definitely the album of hers I've played the most.

I do like "Boom Clap" and "Doing It" is pretty good, but there's too much other stuff that grates on me

Breaking Up
Gold Coins
Hanging Round
Die Tonight
Famous

all incredible songs imo

You say you love me
I say, "What!?"

You say you love me
"OK, let's rock"

Everything was wrong with you
So breaking up was easy to do

Hated your friends and your family too
So breaking up was easy to do

It's slightly let down by a few songs on the second half. Hanging Around and Caught In The Middle definitely feel like filler.

Shame Charli has written that album off now. I guess it wasn't a great time for her with all her label issues. That was one messy album campaign.

Agree the second half is uneven but Hanging Around is glorious imo

I wanna learn to speak Japanese
Razor-sharp on the silver screen
You were made for a limousine
So get your shit now and come with me

I now realise I had neglected to put in the time with "how I'm feeling now" and it is of course a glorious masterwork, every track gives me pop chills

new song with no rome & the 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wlz9tc5UQA

that image hurts my eyes

Sounds like a July song more than a March song, but I like it! A little too concise, maybe? Don't know No Rome, but a pretty faithful melding of their two styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

lol wrong thread

She finally has a song I like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twu2y32ccM4

justice for "superlove"! i do like it better than the actual version lol (tho it's not bad!)

i giggled at the existence of a dedicated 'tiktok music' youtube channel

(i guess i should clarify i mean tinashe's "superlove," since charli also has a good song by that title lol)

like the original version of that Charli song better than the tiktok variant, but it’s fine

my new song 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐎𝐧𝐞𝐬 arrives on September 2nd. get ready to surrender 🩸 pre save now. happy birthday to me 🖤⚰️🥀 https://t.co/vWV9CrELr5 pic.twitter.com/ItGTEcVw5d

— Charli (@charli_xcx) August 2, 2021

announcing a single a month out is weird

tbf she said it's a "song" and it's her birthday so the possibility is high it's just a one-off

is there a specific 80s hair metal cover that image is a parody of or is it just a vibe?

looks more like a Taylor Dayne -type sleeve than a hair metal reference to me

The font, the background color wash, the "I'm crawling sensually on top of a Corvette but there's no Corvette" pose, it all reads hair metal to me, but I have zero mental picture of what a Taylor Dayne sleeve would look like

how exciting that i get to pre-save a song that comes out in a month

maybe it's just a generically hot 80s chick

i'd be surprised if it's a one-off, she's been indicating an album's on the way this year for a while now

This is from a few weeks ago:

evil era incoming 😈

— Charli (@charli_xcx) July 14, 2021

Which she expounded on a few days later

i hate this idea of things needing to be labeled “right” or “wrong” or “appropriate” or “inappropriate ” within any type of art. if there is no upset or debate or controversy or questioning, then what’s the point of creating?

— Charli (@charli_xcx) July 18, 2021

i dont create to be “correct” i create because of how i feel. to me art is feeling & feelings are not black or white or clear cut. they are messy & ever changing like their human creators. if art isnt emotionally triggering in some way, positive or negative, then is it even good?

— Charli (@charli_xcx) July 18, 2021

I hope "evil era" means that it's an album of songs inspired by the critically-acclaimed Paramount+ show Evil

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09rfbrp

not very good so far tbrr

I keep putting "Charli" on during work to get some energy going but then I get to Blame It On Your Love into White Mercedes and feel weepy

anyone know what this was about?

pic.twitter.com/5PrWVBwoDB

— Charli (@charli_xcx) August 15, 2021

She has also said something like rip hyperpop on her insta this week. Think it is just a change of direction, a 80s pop charli is coming. I presume Sophie’s death also has had an effect on her want to move away from her signature sound/look.

oh sick, we needed one of our few genuinely idiosyncratic popstars to start making 80s pop, nobody else is doing that right now

The old Charli can't come to the phone right now...
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead!

bring back rock Charli and even the bad podcast will be forgiven

shitty rip of the single leaked & it's pretty bad unfortunately