Charli XCX - CRASH

Raichu · Nov 14, 2022

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What I love absolutely about her and that mind of hers is you really can't anticipate what her next sound will be.
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You kind of can though. Her music has had a similar sonic palette, with some varying shades, for a very long time. Not even saying that as a drag. It's just the truth.

jvckkk · Oct 28, 2022

Has she given any thought to what she’d like her career to look like next? “I mean, until this point, I’ve been saying no…” she laughs, “but that would be a lie.”

“There’s so many interesting options that would work for me,” Charli elaborates. She’s definitely thinking about going independent, she says, but “is not sure if I’m ready to do that”. The classic structure of life at a major label still feels appealing, despite her issues with its various restrictions: “I like not having to foot the bill for everything at the beginning, that’s quite scary. Especially when you want to do things on the kind of scale that I did on the last record. I’m still exploring, definitely.”

Though Charli insists that she’s still firmly in “the sponge phase” and “absorbing lots of different things,” the artist also confirms that she’s been thinking about the direction of her next release, and has a vague vision in mind for it.

“I’ve known for a while the general direction of where I want to go… and it’s back to what was really inspiring me when I began making music in 2006 and 2007, you know? I think it will be familiar, but hopefully just more intensely committed than before.” And what precisely inspired her, back in the days of cadging lifts to play raves and warehouse parties in the capital? Charli won’t be drawn any further on specifics: ”I don’t really want to say…” she says, “people can Google it, or whatever”.

Here’s an educated guess: the squealing, nu-ravey electro-pop songs of her unreleased debut album ‘14’ – recorded when she was in her teens – feels like a good place to start. That, and Charli’s favourite label Ed Banger, home to French electronic artists like Justice, SebastiAn and Uffie. “Whenever I would listen to their music, I felt like I was in a movie, and it made me feel alive,” she told Red Bull two years ago. “Even still, to this day, apart from SOPHIE and A.G. [Cook], [there’s] not a lot of music makes me feel truly alive like that French electro stuff did.”
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https://www.nme.com/big-reads/charli-xcx-cover-interview-2022-crash-3337132

French electro? Yes please.

elektroxx · Oct 28, 2022

I didn't realize that I needed a bloghaus revival until Charlotte told me that I did.

Eskapism · Oct 28, 2022

jvckkk said: ↑

https://www.nme.com/big-reads/charli-xcx-cover-interview-2022-crash-3337132

French electro? Yes please.
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Another collaboration with Uffie, please!

Mikal · Oct 28, 2022

A whole serve

Andy French · Oct 28, 2022

Charli and Chase Icon leading a bloghaus revival feels so correct. I need her to reconnect with Mr. Oizo

Crisp X · Nov 2, 2022

spaceship · Nov 2, 2022

Talent always finds a way to thrive, I fear.

Jersey · Nov 2, 2022

If we have another mixtape on the horizon, she’ll never lose the title of mutha!!

Andy French · Nov 2, 2022

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eatyourself · Nov 2, 2022

Crisp X said: ↑

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We chose the right president and now we're fighting for the right setlist at our show.

blissteria · Nov 2, 2022

You absolutely love to see it

drewsky · Nov 3, 2022

OK but why is Bravado by Lorde #2 on the Brazilian iTunes chart dd.

jv2612 · Nov 3, 2022

drewsky said: ↑

OK but why is Bravado by Lorde #2 on the Brazilian iTunes chart dd.
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Same reason dd. Fans have been campaigning for it to be added to the South American setlist that way! Lorde has also aknowledged it!!!!!!

jvckkk · Nov 4, 2022

man.tis.shrimp · Nov 4, 2022

Yes, bb. Become the techno queen you are inside.

Andy French · Nov 4, 2022

!Franchesckaar! (Charli's Version)

Jones322 · Nov 4, 2022

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Very here for this!

Heartthrob · Nov 4, 2022

I remember her saying around the time of making how I'm feeling now that she wanted to maybe make a more ambient electro album in the future that wasn't so vocals-focused (inspired by BJ Burton's work with Low), so it would be interesting to see her go in the entirely different direction of CRASH and do something so decidedly not commercial/pop next. Imagine the stan meltdowns nn

jvckkk · Nov 4, 2022

The entire interview is here for anyone interested.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/10/charli-xcx-isnt-so-sure-about-space-travel

Charli XCX - CRASH

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