Charli XCX

your answers are: meghan trainor, katy perry, lady gaga and britney spears

(but that's not why I bumped the thread, I bumped it to say that "famous" is growing on me, albeit probably only me)

i like "famous" a lot!

its a great song like everything else on the record

Famous is one of the handful of songs on Sucker I'll happily listen to on repeat. I love the line "sweat drips from the roof", few pop writers can really put you right in a specific situation with only a few words like she can.

i had no idea britney was a girl group member!

http://www.pepatung.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Britney-Spears-Innosense.jpg

Having spent most of the 2000s on the side of poptimists who were like OMG WHY IS RACHEL STEVENS NOT HUGE HOW DOES THE RECORD COMPANY PUBLIC KEEP GETTING IT SO WRONG, these days, the failure of Sucker and Carly Rae Jepsen to get a second hit seem to make perfect sense to me.

Because, like, Sucker isn't very good at all, is it? Really?

I still think we should go see her and Tkay.

one thing i know is that Rivers Cuomo makes an appearance for a totally lame rewrite of "Beverly Hills," so that's one strike. (but i like "Doing It" (and the official A.G. Cook remix is one of the few PC Music things i'd say is god-level).)

There is a lot of lame stuff on Sucker. I wish I could perform an exorcism on all the college rock elements of it and be left with a decent 90s girl band best of. I'd still be dreaming about the Gainsbourg/ye ye/new wave-influenced masterpiece she talked about in interviews though.

come on that sounds terrible.

man i forgot about innosense

At least three people in this thread voted for Sucker in the P&J. I almost didn't, but then I listened to it one last time to decide whether it belonged in my top 20 or top 50, and it won me back over. For me, at least, the whole album is much more than the sum of the songs. Or maybe it's that it actually is worth the sum of its songs, where albums often aren't. Anyway, I don't know and don't care whether she "should" be a star, any more than some kid you admired in gym class in 4th grade "should" be in the Olympics, but I'm excited to hear her keep making records.

the bar feels kinda low for female pop stardom right now, like if Meghan Trainor and Ellie Goulding can be on the radio 24/7 and do solid album numbers then it shouldn't have been that hard for Charli to reach that level

That javelin thing in the Olympics doesn't look that hard.

had to check whether I voted for sucker -- I did, I mostly like it except for the two or three obvious castoffs, I'm mostly invested in her becoming a star because she almost (what seemed like) improbably became one, then didn't

come on that sounds terrible

a mashup of my three favourite genres, what could possibly go wrong??!

I know I know probably a lot but I can dream. I was actually pretty excited by the live version of London Queen and thought the new wave thing was happening and then I heard the recorded version and... eh

also I heard Red Ballon today but maybe I should post about that in the rolling worst songs thread instead

this album still ridiculously fun to put on, fuiud

she performed "famous" and "drop that kitty" (w/ ty$ and tinashe) on the mtv movie awards last night and it was pretty unbearable

i do still like the album tho

they're still trying to make "drop that kitty" happen, bless

that said, I am somewhat surprised she hasn't tried to go the EDM crossover route, because she's SO GOOD at it:

https://vimeo.com/33337865

"Famous" is one of my favorites on the album, so if that's the next single i'm cool with that.

i mean let's be real it has no chance of getting more than negligible airplay at this point

I love End of the World and I love her other Alex Metric collabo Atomic too
https://soundcloud.com/charli-xcx-fan/charli-xcx-atomic-feat-alex

She's capable of such greatness and it's frustrating that this hit-and-miss era is the one getting mainstream attention. Famous is terrific though I wish it stood a chance. MMAYBE with a really good, Fancy-level video, not that Wareheim mess.

lol

http://40.media.tumblr.com/b9d329b91fa62bf1410224465ce03a00/tumblr_no1dptqp0e1typl03o1_540.jpg

I saw her live last week (Tkay Maidza supporting). She's improved a lot since I last saw her in 2013; she also rapped the entirety of Fancy without a blaccent and she is a far better rapper than iggy iguana will ever be

http://diymag.com/2015/11/13/charli-xcx-is-working-with-ed-bangers-mr-oizo

New EP coming up with Mr Oizo, should be good

Nice. Looks like she learned her lesson.

And in the meantime, there's also her spot on the new Giorgio Moroder album!

https://open.spotify.com/track/09Y5FQrv7ldNgXdLPWLJbN

Is there a Charli xcx discussion on another thread? I listen to True Romance all the time but the last one is doing nothing for me

Britishers might find this BBC Three doc she did on feminism diverting (although a lot of it is just tour-diary stuff): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06qnk6p/charli-xcx-the-fword-and-me

Features only a tiny amount of Charlotte Church, I promise.

Aw man, can only watch this in the UK...

i strangely have not watched yet but heard it was kinda disappointo

I understand the best way to approach this is more 'tour diary' and less 'observations on feminism'? (haven't watched, not in UK)

Bow streaming:

https://www.thefader.com/2015/12/10/mr-oizo-charli-xcx-hand-in-the-fire

http://uk.thefader.com/2016/02/23/charli-xcx-announces-new-label-previews-vroom-vroom-feat-sophie

I'm not really into Vroom Vroom. Hope there is better on the EP.

Excited for the new album which apparently she finished last week.

really not into this EP. the hannah diamond collab sounds like a dance dance revolution track that nobody would intentionally select.

can the pc music joke end soon pls cheers

this EP is a disaster and I say that as a self-admitted Charli diehard who honestly thought she could never do any wrong ever

what even is the pc music joke

every song on the EP is better than the one before it but when you get to the end it still hasn't had time to get good. still interested in the new album!

I hope this EP is her getting this sound out of her system. The thought of her new album being of this quality makes me really sad.

Basically what boxedjoy said.

album stuff i have heard is great, does not sound like EP

i have no evidence on which to base this assertion but i'm sort of thinking (maybe moreso) that the pc music EP might be a between-albums experiment

maybe moreso hoping***

this is bad but on the other hand it's not any worse than the brooke candy song

I mean she's said that SOPHIE's going to be all over her album so regardless of how you feel about this EP I don't think what comes next is going to be any kind of hard left turn away from it.
That said I like the EP quite a bit, even if I understand how other people might find it obnoxious. If nothing else "Secret" feels to me like a really good update of those simmering early-2000s "good girl gone bad" tunes a la "I'm A Slave 4 U"? (Not that I think there's nothing else.) It definitely does get better as it goes along.
idk, it's evident to me by this point that I'm way more in the target demographic for PC Music-type stuff than the typical ILXer. Don't take my word for it.

WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT

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