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?
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Saturday, 11 April 2015 05:23 (nine years ago) link
I still think we should go see her and Tkay.
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Saturday, 11 April 2015 05:28 (nine years ago) link
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).)
― soyrev, Saturday, 11 April 2015 05:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Leonard Pine, Saturday, 11 April 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
come on that sounds terrible.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 April 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
man i forgot about innosense
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 April 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 11 April 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Saturday, 11 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
That javelin thing in the Olympics doesn't look that hard.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 11 April 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― katherine, Sunday, 12 April 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― Leonard Pine, Sunday, 12 April 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
this album still ridiculously fun to put on, fuiud
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2015 07:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― dyl, Monday, 13 April 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
they're still trying to make "drop that kitty" happen, bless
― katherine, Monday, 13 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
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
― katherine, Monday, 13 April 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
"Famous" is one of my favorites on the album, so if that's the next single i'm cool with that.
― some dude, Monday, 13 April 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
i mean let's be real it has no chance of getting more than negligible airplay at this point
― dyl, Monday, 13 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I love End of the World and I love her other Alex Metric collabo Atomic toohttps://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.
― Leonard Pine, Monday, 13 April 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
lol
http://40.media.tumblr.com/b9d329b91fa62bf1410224465ce03a00/tumblr_no1dptqp0e1typl03o1_540.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 May 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
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
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Friday, 8 May 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
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
― Leonard Pine, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Nice. Looks like she learned her lesson.
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 14 November 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
And in the meantime, there's also her spot on the new Giorgio Moroder album!
https://open.spotify.com/track/09Y5FQrv7ldNgXdLPWLJbN
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 14 November 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
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
― kinder, Saturday, 14 November 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Mercer Finn, Friday, 4 December 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Aw man, can only watch this in the UK...
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 7 December 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
i strangely have not watched yet but heard it was kinda disappointo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 December 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
I understand the best way to approach this is more 'tour diary' and less 'observations on feminism'? (haven't watched, not in UK)
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Bow streaming:
https://www.thefader.com/2015/12/10/mr-oizo-charli-xcx-hand-in-the-fire
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 December 2015 11:49 (eight years ago) link
http://uk.thefader.com/2016/02/23/charli-xcx-announces-new-label-previews-vroom-vroom-feat-sophie
― nxd, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
really not into this EP. the hannah diamond collab sounds like a dance dance revolution track that nobody would intentionally select.
― maura, Sunday, 28 February 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 28 February 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
what even is the pc music joke
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 February 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
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!
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 February 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 28 February 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
album stuff i have heard is great, does not sound like EP
― james brooks, Sunday, 28 February 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― art baengels (monotony), Sunday, 28 February 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
maybe moreso hoping***
this is bad but on the other hand it's not any worse than the brooke candy song
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Champiness, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT
NO
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 5 March 2016 09:24 (eight years ago) link
I tried really hard getting into the EP but somebody on another forum pointed out "Paradise" sounds like Blümchen and now I'm too sad to play it anymore. The title track is good though
― Leonard Pine, Sunday, 6 March 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
finally listened to this
so disappoint
u_u
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
so Angry i'ma explode
― Jeff W, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
^I like that.
― daavid, Monday, 9 May 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
this sounds like a throwback to ca. 2004 to me
and i love it
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 May 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
2:44 to 2:58 is genius!
― daavid, Monday, 9 May 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
New single called After the Afterparty coming tomorrow. I hope it's more inline with Explode rather than the EP.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 October 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link