Charli XCX

Loving this! I'm starting to think Charli XCX may be the best pop songwriter right now.

plenty of ppl (or 'grown ass men' b/c i guess those are the only ones whose opinions should be considered right) repped for radio disney actually: http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-03-14/music/all-ears/

lmao@ a grown ass man proud of being the world's only radio disney hipster, tbh. He was there...a l o n e

― Cousin Slappy

haven't been here long have you

The guitar riff under the chorus is just gorgeous

i really like the production on this a lot.... sorta cut copy-ish circa 'in ghost colours'

I've liked her more and more with each single. Juxtaposing the alphabet game with acoustic strums and video game whooshes is some genius.

it does sound like she says "you're smoking through my butt" though

you know, typical Radio Disney fare.

I dont think anyone has mentioned it so far but some of her vocal ticks remind me heavily of Gwen Stefani. Am I alone in this?

I mean I can easily picture this new song and Nuclear Seasons as Gwen Stefani fiddling with darkwave.

i don't know about here but i've definitely read no doubt comparisons to her before.

I've heard it before, yeah. (Stefani's own tiptoes toward that are just as good.)

SOS THIS IS REAL AND THIS IS DANGEROUS

Love this song!

https://vine.co/v/Mm5ge1IZjQ7

https://vine.co/v/MmhWal1VEt3

i laughed way too hard at these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w

iggy azalea raps like someone who isn't quite finished with her 't.i. drawl' rosetta stone class yet

"unfinished" is the right word for Azalea. Charli should have rapped Azalea's part and have done with it.

i don't think charli makes the best hook singer on rap songs either

I have little to no time for iggy azalea after she said something phenomenally stupid about indigenous australians, which I will find a link to when I'm not phone boarding

Charli's album eventually (without waiting too long)comes up and grabs me in the murk; doesn't let go. Her poses become her; was even thinking "Bowie's granddaughter" (she's 20, right?). Icona Pop's album seems too often to be trying too hard, like some recent Lady Gaga. "I Love It" works better in Tiesto's remix. Should prob listen more to IP's album, and maybe Iggy.

I have little to no time for iggy azalea after she said something phenomenally stupid about indigenous australians, which I will find a link to when I'm not phone boarding

probably this

Charli should have rapped Azalea's part and have done with it.

listened now: otm

funny how her two biggest hits by far have both been ft. credits.

it seems like that might always be true but who knows

It's gonna be hard for her (and icona pop) to create another global hit like 'I love it' but who knows.

my gut feeling is that charli's odds are better than icona pop's odds, but they are both regrettably slim

I still really like "SuperLove".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOPMlIIg_38

Boom! Clap! is a great hook. Rereading this thread makes me wonder if I'm listening to the same artist and album, because I think she's a great songwriter and it's the murky production that lets her down.

is that filmed in Copenhagen?

Probably Amsterdam, as that song is on the Fault in Our Stars soundtrack, and a part of that book (and movie, unless they've taken liberties with the source material) takes place there.

I felt very underwhelmed with Boom Clap when I was watching it but then I went away from my computer without any other music on and I had it playing in my head constantly for half an hour. Wonder if I'm going to end up loving it like I have with just about everything else she's done. Doesn't seem like a big change in style in anything. I thought the second album was supposed to sound like Bow Wow Wow and The Waitresses or something?

boom clap is still kinda underwhelming and it sounds like a castoff from old sessions, i would be surprised if it ends up on her new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8k2AAMTZKo

I'm not sure whether "Boom Clap" is a leftover from the True Romance sessions or not, but it's certainly veering back towards glittery, gothy pop and away from the promised bratpunk of "London Queen", "Breaking Up", and the "Allergic To Love" cover, so I'm inclined to think it's just a soundtrack thing or if it does appear on the album, it'll be an outlier / bonus track. Going rock could potentially backfire for her but if Sky Ferreira could pull it off, I'd say Charli is just as capable, if not more so. I'd imagine her label are rethinking things after the success of "Fancy". I'm not sure whether she's done anything with Reichtshaid for this album, but Noonie Bao, Rostam from Vampire Weekend, MNDR, Rivers Cuomo, and Patrik Berger are some of the known collaborators. There were also rumours she was working with Cathy Dennis.

Anyway "Boom Clap" is apparently in the top 100 on US iTunes, so I hope she finally gets her own solo hit. She's deserved to for about 2-3 years.

weaksauce like "boom clap" becoming her solo hit will be almost as disappointing as "fancy" being arguably it

Interesting interview with Charli went up on popjustice overnight that seems to indicate that she's scrapped the "punk" album with Patrik Berger for the meantime, and confirms she's been working on her own stuff with Stargate and on other people's stuff with Dr Luke.

The "punk" album was a startling and not altogether sensible move, which is kind of why I loved the idea. I wouldn't blame her for never following through with it, though.

to be honest i wouldn't be surprised if the stuff she makes with stargate ends up being quite good

charli xcx apparently turned down lead on a christina aguilera song

ESSETKES:EST s/lead/feature (although given her track record of features she probably would have ended up the de facto lead)

Well, perhaps I spoke too soon. https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/482583396234035201

boom clap at no. 6 in the UK chart

(and fancy still hanging in at 24)

I'm really happy she's doing well even if Boom Clap isn't my favourite thing she's done. Hopefully people will go out and get True Romance now.

COME ON TO ME
COME ON TO ME NOW

did she really say "iggy and i defeated the racists" :(

‘I sometimes ask for a framed picture of Bill Murray on my rider just because I think he is really cool,’ she said.

‘There are a few I have collected and some of them have been in nice frames!’

‘I have a weird Bill Murray collection, I guess. Although it’s not some weird obsession.

‘It would be sick to have him in a music video.’

No stranger to music, Murray was once MC for Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival.

dyl no she did not... it's a classic if egregious example of the peculiarly british newpaper practice of summarizing - often incorrectly - what someone has said and then putting that in quote marks as a subhed

http://gometro.ie/2014/07/charli-uses-girl-power-to-fight-off-the-haters/

‘People give Iggy (pictured) a hard time because she’s Australian and white and female and apparently that’s a weird thing, which I don’t get,

i read that as her attempting not to address the question which is fair enough imo

maybe she should have gone in on the fraught question of iggy's authenticity as a rapper though? i dunno