Charli XCX

It was fun. Only some small criticisms: A bit too much new album or singles I don’t care for (crowd went insane for 1999) and not enough of the era I love. Dunno if she needed 30 outfit changes either, kinda would slow the momentum.

she iconic tho.

still playing Crash a lot. Do i like it more than Pop 2?!?!?!!! Maybe. How I'm Feeling Now is the best.. but not gonna replay it this much.

Currently can't get enough of Beg For You, particularly the end

Rina: [vocal acrobatics]
Charli: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

perfection

Concert last week was so much fun, and the audience absolutely lapped up the whole show.

omg that Alexandria Palace setlist rules!

ok pretty much the same at Norwich and wherever. aaa so jealous

ok "Forever" or "Anthems" would've gone a long way

About a week after going to the gig I heard “Move Me” again and it reminded me how incredible the performance on the night was – spellbindingly so – and I’ve been a little bit obsessed with the song since.

show at a local festival over the weekend was great!

she's playing here the same day i already have a ticket to see pavement

and i love charli way more than pavement but charli will probably be back in a few years while pavement won't ugh

does your username come from the fact WA might as well be in space sometimes lol

search within yourself, the quandary will resolve

i've never been to WA so i wouldn't know

I've been to paradise but I've never been to WA

This bump reminds me that being a Gen Xer who laments for the days of the 80s extended mix of singles, I am very grateful for people like ben. who have been making edits of the tracks from Crash.

Here’s Constant Repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFR-BLxNneI

But they have done extended edits of the whole album if you investigate their channel, and I wish this was more of a standard thing.

And, here’s the plug bit, I played this mix in my best of 2022 show here: https://soundcloud.com/1btn/inter-mission-09122022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awe3m4yVeT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmvi8wsHzDU

decent enough but nothing to get excited about

It’s alright.

I am already enjoying singing “In the city, in the dog dog dog” to our dog though.

I think when she makes "generic" pop, she can still be good but this is generic (derogatory)

Sam Smith makes everything they touch as boring as fuck.

https://www.instagram.com/charli_xcx/reel/C2u7b_0Rbrp/

teasing a new track + announced a boiler room performance on 22 feb

Wonder what 536 refers to?

536 iirc

or is it 653

She parties 536 days a year.

from the snippets I've heard it sounds like the new track will sample "Perfect (Exceeder)" or at least approximate it

love the new single

I really like it too although the release was somewhat anticlimactic for me as I feel like I'd heard the song already via snippets and videos from her Boiler Room.

it's not bad but it's not amazing either

It kicks into the chorus very satisfyingly. Video is pretty cool and takes it up a notch.

Yeah the way it releases the energy in the chorus is a simple trick but it works. If I was drunk and younger I’d probably lose my mind if you played it by the time the 4th red bull vodka hits.

She debuted "So I", a SOPHIE tribute, at a Billboard event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdZRDY3AT74

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr-bX9Wlo_I

these are decent

“Club Classics” seems like more of a SOPHIE tribute than “So I”, even.

I couldn't get into Von Dutch, but I love both of these new songs. That So I performance is great too. Looking forward to the album.

really love all the shifts in "b2b"

Absolutely wild for b2b

Yeah, it’s really great. There’s a guy on YouTube called “Ben.” who has done some great 12” extended mixes of Charli tracks before and I’m hoping they do the same for this one.

Never really listened to her before except for vroom vroom, which I love. Skimming on Spotify 'how I'm feeling now' is the one that jumps out but I'm surprised that people don't like pink diamond which seems an obvious highlight.

https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1785018923815178707

this one's gonna rule

out sometime next week i think?

so glad I got tix to see her and Troye Sivan on their tour, it's gonna rule

missed out on the Crash tour bc I wasn't feeling it as much

Decided all the dates were in venues too large for me, will wait for the next time she plays “smaller” venues.

New clip sounds fire though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJW-VvmRKsE

pretty good but it's so short, wish it had a bridge

probably her best music video...ever? I like the song a lot too, I think this album is shaping up really nicely.

the video itself is good but i don't think the intro needed to be that long

video - (in)decent, track - yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep YEP

the intro needed to be that long so that every one of those influencers friends would feel justified in spamming their followers with a link to the song obv

Forgot to post this last week, but I was a bit obsessed for a couple of days with this clip of a forthcoming 00s throwback electro-house sleaze collab with The Dare:

what song is this oh my god i need it NOW @charli_xcx pic.twitter.com/PImPocHbET

— kels*•.*୨୧ (@L0VEST0RYZ) May 3, 2024

Was recently surprised and a bit undone by “Official”, underrated track I think

that whole downtempo stretch on "Charli" is gorgeous!